Turkey Public Holidays 2025
Turkey has 9 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Republic Day on 29 October 2025. Two well placed days of leave buy 8 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 Turkey in 2026 or Turkey in 2027.
Looking back: Turkey observed nine national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. Two fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against one in 2026. The calendar produced three long weekends that year, as many as 2026 gives.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's DayYılbaşı | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| End of Ramadan (Eid al-Fitr)Ramazan Bayramı | SundayWeekend | Public holiday4 days | |
| National Sovereignty and Children's DayUlusal Egemenlik ve Çocuk Bayramı | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Labour and Solidarity DayEmek ve Dayanışma Günü | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports DayAtatürk'ü Anma Gençlik ve Spor Bayramı | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)Kurban Bayramı | Friday | Public holiday5 days | |
| Democracy and National Unity DayDemokrasi ve Millî Birlik Günü | Tuesday | Public holiday | |
| Victory DayZafer Bayramı | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Republic DayCumhuriyet Bayramı | Wednesday | 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 Turkey calendar. No correction specific to Turkey has been needed since.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with no corrections needed for Turkey.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 May (2 holidays), a good window to plan around if you rely on offices, banks or schools being open. Two 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 Turkey, 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 Turkey.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does Turkey have in 2025?
Turkey has 9 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Republic Day on 29 October 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in Turkey?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in Turkey in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in Turkey is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for Turkey?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of Turkey are listed separately on the Turkey holiday hub, together with the regions that observe them.
Do the Turkey holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Two of the 9 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (islamic (hijri) calendar), 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 30 March 2025 and Feast of the Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha) on 6 June 2025.
How far ahead is the Turkey 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 Turkey.
Which Turkey 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 Turkey holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Turkey with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Turkey
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Turkey public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Turkey 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.