France Public Holidays 2025
France has 11 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Christmas Day on 25 December 2025. Five well placed days of leave buy 20 days away from work in 2025, because five holidays sit exactly one working day from a weekend.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see France in 2026 or France in 2027.
Looking back: France observed 11 national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. One fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against two in 2026. The calendar produced four long weekends that year, against five in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's DayNouvel An | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Easter MondayLundi de Pâques | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Labour DayFête du travail | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Victory DayFête de la Victoire 1945 | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Ascension DayAscension | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Whit MondayLundi de Pentecôte | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Bastille DayFête Nationale de la France | Monday | Public holiday | |
| AssumptionAssomption | Friday | Public holiday | |
| All Saints' DayToussaint | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Armistice DayArmistice 1918 | Tuesday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas DayNoël | Thursday | Public holiday |
- Status
- Set in lawThe calendar is set in standing law rather than announced year by year, so 2025 needs no separate publication.
- Last verified
- The last full review of the dataset behind the France calendar. No correction specific to France has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for France.Always confirm official dates with a local authority before booking travel. How these calendars are built. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it.
May is the densest month for holidays, which tends to shape travel and shopping patterns. One of them falls on a weekend in 2025, so it is worth checking whether that day is made up during the week. The table below lists every France public holiday for 2025 with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can see the long weekends at a glance. Only nationwide public holidays are included here, which keeps the France calendar clean and comparable.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does France have in 2025?
France has 11 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Christmas Day on 25 December 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in France?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in France in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in France is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for France?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of France are listed separately on the France holiday hub, together with the departments and overseas regions that observe them.
Do the France holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Three of the 11 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (linked to easter), so their date has to be recalculated for every year. The rest keep the same calendar date and only change weekday. Moving ones this year include Easter Monday on 21 April 2025, Ascension Day on 29 May 2025 and Whit Monday on 9 June 2025.
How far ahead is the France calendar actually fixed?
Through 2027. The holidays are set in law rather than announced year by year, so the dates repeat predictably. What can still change is a law amendment, a one-off holiday declared for a national event, and the exact day of any holiday on the Islamic calendar, which is confirmed by moon sighting. No corrections to the underlying dataset were needed for France.
Which France holidays are regional, and which move?
The table above is the national calendar for 2025. Some holidays keep the same date every year while others are tied to Easter, to a lunar calendar or to a named weekday, and some parts of the country add their own days off. The France holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare France with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for France
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the France public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the France 2025 calendar
Knowing the dates is half the question. The other half is what they add up to: which of them create a long weekend and how many working days the year leaves. The 2025 worldwide overview compares every country on holiday count and weekend overlap, and the country index ranks all 44 of them. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.