Netherlands Public Holidays 2025
The Netherlands has 9 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. One well placed day of leave buys 4 days away from work in 2025, because one holiday sits 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 Netherlands in 2026 or Netherlands in 2027.
Looking back: The Netherlands observed nine national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. One fell on a Saturday or Sunday, the same as in 2026. The calendar produced four long weekends that year, as many as 2026 gives.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's DayNieuwjaar | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Good FridayRecognised in law, but unlike Easter Monday or Ascension it is not a paid day off in every collective agreement. | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter MondayTweede paasdag | Monday | Public holiday | |
| King's DayKoningsdag | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Liberation DayA recognised national holiday every year. Whether it is a paid day off depends on the collective agreement, and for many sectors that is only in lustrum years. | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Ascension DayHemelvaartsdag | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Whit MondayTweede pinksterdag | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas DayKerstmis | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Boxing DayTweede kerstdag | Friday | 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 newest check behind a Netherlands entry, against the source named in the corrections log.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with 4 corrections applied to Netherlands. See what we changed.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.
The busiest stretch is April (3 holidays), a good window to plan around if you rely on offices, banks or schools being open. One of them falls on a weekend in 2025, so it is worth checking whether that day is made up during the week. Use the table below to see each 2025 holiday in the Netherlands, when it happens and which day of the week it lands on. Regional and local observances are excluded, so what you see are the holidays recognised across the Netherlands.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does the Netherlands have in 2025?
The Netherlands has 9 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Boxing Day on 26 December 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in the Netherlands?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in the Netherlands in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in the Netherlands is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for the Netherlands?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of the Netherlands are listed separately on the Netherlands holiday hub, together with the provinces that observe them.
Do the Netherlands holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Four of the 9 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 Good Friday on 18 April 2025, Easter Monday on 21 April 2025 and Ascension Day on 29 May 2025, plus 1 more.
How far ahead is the Netherlands 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. This table also applies 4 corrections to the underlying open dataset, each checked against the legislation. The full list with sources is on the Netherlands holiday hub.
Which Netherlands 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 Netherlands holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Netherlands with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Netherlands
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Netherlands public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Netherlands 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 on their own, and where a single day of leave turns a holiday into a four day break. That is on the Netherlands long weekends page for 2025, alongside how many working days 2025 actually has once weekends and holidays come out. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.