LIST: Philippine holidays for 2025

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang has released the list of regular holidays and special non-working days in the Philippines for 2025.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. issued Proclamation No. 727, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin on Wednesday, October 30. The proclamation was made public on Thursday, October 31.

Here are the 2025 holidays in the country:

Regular holidays:

• New Year’s Day – January 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 – August 25 (Last Monday of August)
• Bonifacio Day – November 30 (Sunday)
• Christmas Day – December 25 (Thursday)
• Rizal Day – December 30 (Tuesday)

Special non-working days:

• Ninoy Aquino Day – August 21 (Thursday)
• All Saints Day – November 1 (Saturday)
• Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary – December 8 (Monday)
• Last Day of the Year – December 31 (Wednesday)

Special working day:

• EDSA People Power Revolution Anniversary – February 25 (Tuesday)

Additional special non-working days:

• Chinese New Year – January 29 (Wednesday)
• Founding anniversary of Iglesia ni Cristo – July 27 (Sunday)
• Black Saturday – April 19
• Christmas Eve – December 24 (Wednesday)
• All Saints’ Day Eve – October 31 (Friday)

Marcos issued Proclamation 729, signed on October 30, declaring July 27, the founding anniversary of Iglesia ni Cristo, as a special non-working day nationwide. It falls on a Sunday in 2025.

“The proclamations declaring national holidays for the observance of Eidul Fitr and Eidul Adha will be issued after the approximate dates of the Islamic holidays have been determined in accordance with the Islamic calendar (Hijra) or the lunar calendar, or upon Islamic astronomical calculations, whichever is applicable,” the PCO said.

The PCO added that the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos “will recommend to the President the actual dates on which these holidays will respectively fall.”

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is tasked to issue the implementing guidelines for Proclamation 727. 

– Rappler.com