New Zealand Public Holidays 2025
New Zealand has 11 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. Two well placed days of leave buy 9 days away from work in 2025, because two 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 New Zealand in 2026 or New Zealand in 2027.
Looking back: New Zealand observed 11 national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. None of them fell on a Saturday or Sunday, so every one of them was a weekday off, the same as in 2026. The calendar produced six long weekends that year, against eight in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Day after New Year's Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Waitangi Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Good Friday | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter Monday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| ANZAC Day | Friday | Public holiday | |
| King's Birthday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Matariki | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Labour Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Boxing Day | 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 last full review of the dataset behind the New Zealand calendar. No correction specific to New Zealand has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for New Zealand.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.
April is the densest month for holidays, which tends to shape travel and shopping patterns. None of them falls on a weekend in 2025, so every holiday adds a genuine weekday off. Use the table below to see each 2025 holiday in New Zealand, when it happens and which day of the week it lands on. We track national holidays only, leaving out regional variations, so the list stays consistent and easy to compare with other countries.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does New Zealand have in 2025?
New Zealand has 11 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 New Zealand?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in New Zealand in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in New Zealand is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for New Zealand?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of New Zealand are listed separately on the New Zealand holiday hub, together with the anniversary day regions that observe them.
Do the New Zealand holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Five of the 11 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (linked to easter, set weekday of the month and announced per year), 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 King's Birthday on 2 June 2025, plus 2 more.
How far ahead is the New Zealand 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 New Zealand.
Which New Zealand 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 New Zealand holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare New Zealand with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for New Zealand
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the New Zealand public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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.