Nigeria Public Holidays 2025
Nigeria has 12 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. Four well placed days of leave buy 16 days away from work in 2025, because four 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 Nigeria in 2026 or Nigeria in 2027.
Looking back: Nigeria observed 12 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, against five in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Id el Fitr | SundayWeekend | Public holiday2 days | |
| Good Friday | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter Monday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Worker's Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Id el Kabir | Friday | Public holiday2 days | |
| Democracy Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Islamic New Year | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Birthday of Muhammad (Mawlid) | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Independence Day | Wednesday | 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 newest check behind a Nigeria entry, against the source named in the corrections log.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with 2 corrections applied to Nigeria. 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.
Expect the most closures around June (3 holidays), so schedule deliveries and appointments with that in mind. 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 Nigeria public holiday for 2025 with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can see the long weekends at a glance. Regional and local observances are excluded, so what you see are the holidays recognised across Nigeria.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does Nigeria have in 2025?
Nigeria has 12 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 Nigeria?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in Nigeria in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in Nigeria is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for Nigeria?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of Nigeria are listed separately on the Nigeria holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the Nigeria holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Six of the 12 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (islamic (hijri) calendar and 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 Id el Fitr on 30 March 2025, Good Friday on 18 April 2025 and Easter Monday on 21 April 2025, plus 3 more.
How far ahead is the Nigeria 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 2 corrections to the underlying open dataset, each checked against the legislation. The full list with sources is on the Nigeria holiday hub.
Which Nigeria 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 Nigeria holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Nigeria with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Nigeria
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Nigeria public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Nigeria 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.