Philippines Public Holidays 2025
The Philippines has 13 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on January 1, 2025 and ending with Rizal Day on December 30, 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 Philippines in 2026 or Philippines in 2027.
Looking back: The Philippines observed 13 national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. Three fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against one in 2026. The calendar produced three long weekends that year, against seven in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr) | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Day of Valor | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Maundy Thursday | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Good Friday | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter Sunday | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Labour Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha) | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Independence Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| National Heroes' Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Bonifacio Day | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Rizal Day | Tuesday | 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 Philippines calendar. No correction specific to Philippines has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for Philippines.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. Three of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, which is worth checking if you are counting on days off from work. Use the table below to see each 2025 holiday in the Philippines, 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 the Philippines have in 2025?
The Philippines has 13 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on January 1, 2025 and the last is Rizal Day on December 30, 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in the Philippines?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on January 1, 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in the Philippines in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in the Philippines is on January 1, 2025.
Are regional holidays included for the Philippines?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of the Philippines are listed separately on the Philippines holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the Philippines holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Six of the 13 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (islamic (hijri) calendar, linked to easter and set weekday of the month), 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 End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr) on March 30, 2025, Maundy Thursday on April 17, 2025 and Good Friday on April 18, 2025, plus 3 more.
How far ahead is the Philippines 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 Philippines.
Which Philippines 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 Philippines holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Philippines with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Philippines
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Philippines public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Philippines 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.