NOTABLE UK DATES AND RELIGIOUS CALENDARS 2025

BANK HOLIDAYS

New Year’s Day - 1 January

Good Friday - 18 April

Easter Monday - 20 April

Early May Bank Holiday - 5 May

Spring Bank Holiday - 26 May

Summer Bank Holiday - 25 August

Christmas Day - 25 December

Boxing Day - 26 December

NOTABLE DATES

Burns Night (Scotland) - 25 January

Chinese New Year - 29 January

 Shrove Tuesday - 4 March

St Valentines Day - 14 February

St Davids Day (Wales) - 1 March

 Mothering Sunday - 30 March

Commonwealth Day - 10 March

St Patricks Day (Ireland) - 17 March

 British Summertime Commences - 30 March

St Georges Day - 23 April

Father’s Day - 15 June

Longest Day - 21 June

British Summertime Ends - 26 October

Halloween - 31 October

Remembrance Sunday - 9 November

St Andrews Day (Scotland) - 30 November

Shortest Day - 21 December

CHRISTIAN/WESTERN

Epiphany - 6 January

Ash Wednesday - 5 March

Palm Sunday - 13 April

Good Friday - 18 April

Easter Sunday - 20 April

Ascension Day (Holy Thursday) - 29 May

Whit Sunday (Pentecost) - 8 June

Trinity Sunday - 15 June

Advent Sunday - 30 November

Christmas Day - 25 December

Boxing Day - 26 December

ISLAMIC

First Day of Ramadan - 1 March

Eid Al-Fitr - 31 March

Eid Al-Adha - 7 June

Islamic New Year - 27 June

HINDU

Holi March - 14 March

Navratri - 22 September

Diwali - 21 October

JEWISH

First Day of Passover - 13 April

Feast Of Weeks (Shavuot) - 2 June

Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashannah) - 23 September

Day Of Atonement (Yom Kippur) - 2 October

SIKH

Guru Gobind Singh Birthday - 17 January

Vaisakhi - 14 April

Guru Angad Dev - 28 April

Birth Of Guru Granth - 23 October

Diwali - 21 October

• Many religious festivals are determined by an actual sighting of the appropriate new moon, and may also begin at sunset on the previous evening

• Some festivals may appear twice in the same year