All the bank holidays for 2025 including Easter and Christmas

If you want to plan ahead and make the most of your long weekends next year, here are the official dates of bank holidays in 2025.

There are a total of eight bank holidays each year in England and Wales, with some exceptions for special circumstances. Scotland has nine, and Wales has ten.

In 2022, the UK had two extra bank holidays, one on 3 June 2022 to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee, and another on 19 September for the Queen’s funeral.

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There is only one country in the world which celebrates fewer bank holidays than England, Mexico only has seven official public holidays.

Across the world, India is the nation that has the most, with a whopping 21 days that are marked as official national holidays.

Surprisingly, the UK used to have a massive 33 official holidays on the calendar - made up mostly of saints days and religious celebrations. But in 1834, it was decided this was too many, and by 1871, the Bank Holidays Act had the number reduced and made into law.

If you use your annual leave carefully by booking days off around bank holidays, you can score yourself a record number of days off.

This is when all the bank holidays for England and Wales are during 2025:

• Wednesday 1 January - New Year’s Day
• Friday 18 April - Good Friday
• Monday 21 April - Easter Monday
• Monday 5 May - Early May bank holiday
• Monday 26 May - Spring bank holiday
• Monday 25 August - Summer bank holiday
• Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day
• Friday 26 December - Boxing Day

This is when all the bank holidays for Scotland are during 2025:

• Wednesday 1 January - New Year’s Day
• Thursday 2 January - 2nd January
• Friday 18 April - Good Friday
• Monday 5 May - Early May bank holiday
• Monday 26 May - Spring bank holiday
• Monday 4 August - Summer bank holiday
• Monday 1 December - St Andrew’s Day (substitute day)
• Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day
• Friday 26 December - Boxing Day

This is when all the bank holidays for Northern Ireland are during 2025:

• Wednesday 1 January - New Year’s Day
• Monday 17 March - St Patrick’s Day
• Friday 18 April - Good Friday
• Monday 21 April - Easter Monday
• Monday 5 May - Early May bank holiday
• Monday 26 May - Spring bank holiday
• Monday 14 July - Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen’s Day) (substitute day)
• Monday 25 August - Summer bank holiday
• Thursday 25 December - Christmas Day
• Friday 26 December - Boxing Day