United States Public Holidays 2025
The United States has 11 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on January 1, 2025 and ending with Christmas Day on December 25, 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 United States in 2026 or United States in 2027.
Looking back: The United States 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 | |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Washington's Birthday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Memorial Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Juneteenth | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Independence Day | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Labor Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Columbus Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Veterans Day | Tuesday | Public holiday | |
| Thanksgiving Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day | Thursday | 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 States 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 States. 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.
January 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 the United States, 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 United States have in 2025?
The United States has 11 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on January 1, 2025 and the last is Christmas Day on December 25, 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in the United States?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on January 1, 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in the United States in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in the United States is on January 1, 2025.
Are regional holidays included for the United States?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of the United States are listed separately on the United States holiday hub, together with the states that observe them.
Do the United States holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Six of the 11 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (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 Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20, 2025, Washington's Birthday on February 17, 2025 and Memorial Day on May 26, 2025, plus 3 more.
How far ahead is the United States 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 States holiday hub.
Which United States 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 States 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 States with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for United States
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the United States public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the United States 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 States 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.