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UPDATE: The Government has since said its plans for next year ‘do not include an additional bank holiday’. Instead, check out how to get 55 days off next year with only 25 days holiday.
You can never have too many bank holidays. In 2022, we got an extra day off for the platty jubes, in 2023 we got one for King Charles’s coronation and were teased with a bonus one this year, if England had won the Euros. Alas, that wasn’t to be. But it’s been revealed that we could be getting an additional day off in 2025 for a different reason.
The new holiday will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two. The anniversary of the event is typically celebrated on VE Day on May 8 or VJ Day on August 15, so it’s likely we’ll get some precious free time around either of those two dates. Here’s what we know so far.
When will the new bank holiday be in 2025?
The national holiday will either create a new long weekend from May 9 to May 12, which would give us three bank holidays that month, or add an extra day to the existing bank holiday on August 25, giving us a four-day weekend.
What are the other bank holiday dates for 2025?
The rest of the bank hols for next year are as follows:
- Wednesday, January 1: New Year’s Day
- Friday, April 18: Good Friday
- Monday, April 21: Easter Monday
- Monday, May 5: Early May bank holiday
- Monday, May 26: Spring bank holiday
- Monday, August 25: Summer bank holiday
- Thursday, December 25: Christmas Day
- Friday, December 26: Boxing Day
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