United Kingdom Public Holidays 2025
The United Kingdom has 8 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. Five separate long weekends of three days or more fall in 2025 without anyone taking leave, starting with 18 April 2025.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see United Kingdom in 2026 or United Kingdom in 2027.
Looking back: The United Kingdom observed eight 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 five long weekends that year, as many as 2026 gives.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Good Friday | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Easter Monday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Early May bank holiday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Spring bank holiday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Summer bank holidayScotland takes its Summer bank holiday on the first Monday in August instead, so the date differs inside the UK. | 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 newest check behind a United Kingdom entry, against the source named in the corrections log.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with 1 correction applied to United Kingdom. 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 April (2 holidays), so schedule deliveries and appointments with that in mind. None of them falls on a weekend in 2025, so every holiday adds a genuine weekday off. The table below lists every United Kingdom public holiday for 2025 with its exact date and the weekday it falls on, so you can see the long weekends at a glance. The list is the national one, and the United Kingdom also has sub-national calendars that differ from it, so check the note above the table before you rely on a single date.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does the United Kingdom have in 2025?
The United Kingdom has 8 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 United Kingdom?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in the United Kingdom in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in the United Kingdom is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for the United Kingdom?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of the United Kingdom are listed separately on the United Kingdom holiday hub, together with the nations and jurisdictions that observe them.
Do the United Kingdom holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Five of the 8 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (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 Good Friday on 18 April 2025, Easter Monday on 21 April 2025 and Early May bank holiday on 5 May 2025, plus 2 more.
How far ahead is the United Kingdom 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 1 correction to the underlying open dataset, each checked against the legislation. The full list with sources is on the United Kingdom holiday hub.
Which United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare United Kingdom with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for United Kingdom
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the United Kingdom public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom 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.