2025 is a lucky year for bank holiday dates since we don’t have any on a weekend. Apart from Easter days, of course.
We will have 4 Mondays off, 3 days off on Tuesdays and another 3 on Fridays. Also, this year there are 2 days off on Wednesdays and another 2 on Thursdays.
All together, it’s not too bad to have 7 long weekends in 2025.
List of Bank Holidays in 2025
📌 January 1 (Wednesday)– New Year’s Day
📌 January 6 (Monday)– Epiphany
📌 March 3 (Monday)– Green Monday – the beginning of the Easter fast (varies every year, depending on the date when Easter is established) It is marked by going out for a picnic, to the mountains, to the seaside, everywhere, and eating fasting food, vegetables, salads, grilled fish and seafood.
📌 March 25 (Tuesday)–Greek Independence Day
📌 April 1 (Tuesday)– Cyprus National Day
📌April 18 (Friday)– Orthodox Good Friday – (varies every year, depending on when Easter is established)
📌 April 21 (Monday)– Orthodox Easter Monday
📌 Mai 1 (Thursday)– Labour Day
📌 June 9 (Monday)– Orthodox Whit Monday –Kataklismos– varies from year to year – In Cyprus there is a great migration from the cities to the seaside tourist areas. Those who want peace, migrate to the mountains.
📌 August 15 (Friday)– Assumption Day – the most important holiday during the summer. At least 10 years ago, nothing moved on the island for two weeks. Most Cypriots still have holidays during this period, but companies don’t close completely like they did at least 10 years ago.
📌 October 1 (Wednesday)– Cyprus Independence Day
📌 October 28 (Tuesday)– Ochi Day – 1940 – Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini asked Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas for permission to occupy Greek territories and was refused. It marks Greece’s entry into World War II.
📌 December 25 (Thursday)–Christmas Day
📌 December 26 (Friday)– Boxing Day