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Get your diaries out – it is time to notice down the Bank Holidays for subsequent 12 months.

With simply two financial institution holidays left in 2024, you may already be pondering over the dates for these much-needed respites from work in 2025. These public holidays fall on completely different days annually, influenced by weekends or shifting annual events like Easter.

Sadly, there aren’t any present plans so as to add further financial institution holidays to the eight we’ll obtain in 2025, as there is no main nationwide celebrations on the horizon. However, on a brighter notice, the primary financial institution vacation of 2025 is not too far off because it falls on January 1.

The subsequent one will happen simply over three months afterward Good Friday. While this 12 months’s Easter financial institution holidays have been on March 29 and April 1, subsequent 12 months’s Easter will likely be barely later, with Good Friday touchdown on Friday, April 18, and Easter Monday on Monday, April 21.

May’s pair of financial institution holidays will fall on Monday, May 5 and Monday, May 26, whereas the summer season financial institution vacation, sometimes in direction of the tip of the varsity summer season break, is about for Monday, August 25.

To wrap up the 12 months, the Christmas financial institution holidays for the next 12 months will likely be on Thursday, December 25 and Friday, December 26. And when you’re even curious concerning the financial institution holidays for 2026, the Government has already listed these as properly.

See our full checklist beneath.

See our full checklist beneath:

Bank holidays 2025:

1 January Wednesday New Year’s Day

18 April Friday Good Friday

21 April Monday Easter Monday

5 May Monday Early May financial institution vacation

26 May Monday Spring financial institution vacation

25 August Monday Summer financial institution vacation

25 December Thursday Christmas Day

26 December Friday Boxing Day

Bank holidays 2026:

1 January Thursday New Year’s Day

3 April Friday Good Friday

6 April Monday Easter Monday

4 May Monday Early May financial institution vacation

25 May Monday Spring financial institution vacation

31 August Monday Summer financial institution vacation

25 December Friday Christmas Day

28 December Monday Boxing Day (substitute day)