PSA: Malacañang releases list of holidays for 2025
Plan your vacations! The Malacañang Palace has announced the holidays for 2025.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. issued Proclamation No. 727, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Wednesday, Oct. 30, and made public on Thursday, Oct. 31.
Under this, the Department of Labor and Employment will issue implementing guidelines for the proclamation, which is expected to take effect immediately.
Included in this year’s list of holidays is the commemoration of EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary, which was previously removed as it fell on a Sunday. This is in accordance with the “holiday economics” he reintroduced in 2023 which moved holidays closer to Saturday and Sunday to create longer weekends to “boost domestic tourism significantly,” per House Ways and Means Committee chair Joey Salceda.
The list didn’t include Eid’l Fitr and Eid’l Adha yet as it will be proclaimed once the Islamic calendar has been finalized. The actual dates will be recommended by the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) stated.
For your guidance, here are the following regular and special non-working holidays:
2025 HOLIDAYS 🗓️📌
— The Philippine Star (@PhilippineStar) October 31, 2024
Malacañang released on Thursday the list of regular holidays, special non-working days, and special working days for 2025. | via Alexis Romero pic.twitter.com/2vBuRkP7gk
Regular holidays:
- New Year’s Day – Jan. 1 (Wednesday)
- Araw ng Kagitingan – April 9 (Wednesday)
- Maundy Thursday – April 17
- Good Friday – April 18
- Labor Day – May 1 (Thursday)
- Independence Day – June 12 (Thursday)
- National Heroes Day – Aug. 25 (Last Monday of August)
- Bonifacio Day – Nov. 30 (Sunday)
- Christmas Day – Dec. 25 (Thursday)
- Rizal Day – Dec. 30 (Tuesday)
Special non-working days:
- Ninoy Aquino Day – Aug. 21 (Thursday)
- All Saints Day – Nov. 1 (Saturday)
- Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary – Dec. 8 (Monday)
- Last Day of the Year – Dec. 31 (Wednesday)
Special working day:
- EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary – Feb. 25 (Tuesday)
Additional special non-working days:
- Chinese New Year – Jan. 29 (Wednesday)
- Founding anniversary of Iglesia ni Cristo – July 27 (Sunday)
- Black Saturday – April 19
- Christmas Eve – Dec. 24 (Wednesday)
- All Saints’ Day Eve – Oct. 31 (Friday)