You should take these vacation days in 2025 to get as much vacation time as possible this year.
Back to school is approaching and you only have one thing on your mind: going back on vacation? The good news is that 2025 is shaping up to be a great year in terms of public holidays. Indeed, if you look closely at the school calendar, you will see that out of the 11 annual public holidays, 10 will fall on weekdays! A real boon. Here’s how to optimize great long weekends and make the most of your vacation in 2025.
The year 2025 is off to a great start, with New Year’s Day falling on a Wednesday. All you need to do is take two days off beforehand to get 5 days off. And if you also take two days off after Christmas, on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th December, you almost double the bet by getting 8 consecutive days off!
And the good news doesn’t stop there. In the spring, with Easter Monday falling on Monday, April 21, and May 1 and 8 falling on a Thursday, you can get 23 consecutive days of vacation if you take 12 days between April 22 and May 9, 2025. Here are the exact dates to take: Tuesday, April 22 to Friday, April 25, Monday, April 28 to Wednesday, April 30, then Friday, May 2, Monday, May 5 to Wednesday, May 7, and finally, Friday, May 9, 2025.
For those who do not want or cannot take so many days off, you can enjoy 11 days of vacation in a row by taking only these 5 days: May 2, 5, 6, 7 and 9, 2025. Finally, you have 3 advantageous public holidays left to take bridges for the rest of the year by taking Friday, May 30, which follows Ascension Thursday on May 29, Monday, November 10, which precedes Armistice Day on Tuesday, November 11, then Friday, December 26, which follows the Christmas public holiday, which this year falls on Thursday, December 25.
And we haven’t even told you about the long weekends that will automatically be in the summer with the National Day that falls on Monday, July 14 and the Assumption Day that falls on Friday, August 15. If you wish, you can take 4 extra days: for example, the best strategy would be to take from Tuesday, July 15 to Friday, July 18, to get 9 consecutive days of vacation. All Saints’ Day is the only black spot on the 2025 calendar, since this public holiday will fall on Saturday, November 1…
With so many public holidays falling on a weekday in 2025, employees will be able to enjoy 60 days of rest by taking only 23 days of vacation. What a joy this coming year 2025! Enough to make you forget the back-to-school blues. Ready to plan your vacation?