With the new year comes a new calendar. And a very French reflex: identify public holidays to optimize your paid vacation days. How to install your RTT to get maximum rest this year? Europe 1 describes the optimal strategy to you.
As soon as they return to work, many employees are thinking about their next vacation. And it’s never too early! With the new year comes a new calendar, this year with public holidays that seem to smile on bridge lovers. How to take your paid leave days in 2025? We tell you how to make the most of it.
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Public holiday dates in 2025
- New Year’s Day: Wednesday January 1st
- Easter Monday: Monday April 21
- Labor Day: Thursday May 1st
- Victoire 1945 : Thursday May 8
- Ascension : Thursday May 29
- Pentecost Monday: Monday June 9
- National holiday: Monday July 14
- Assumption: Friday August 15
- Toussaint : Saturday November 1st
- Armistice 1918 : Tuesday November 11
- Christmas Day: Thursday December 25
Five 4-day weekends possible
For those who wish and can make bridges, it is possible to take a single holiday on Friday or Monday this year to obtain up to five long weekends, made up of four days. Including three in May! So, if you install an RTT the Friday May 2, Friday May 9, Friday May 30the Monday November 10 or the Friday December 26you will have four days to rest, provided of course that you do not work on Saturdays and Sundays.
-But if you prefer to keep your days off for extended vacations, don’t panic: four weekends made up of three days are present in the calendar, which does not require the use of RTT. You will be able to enjoy three days of rest from Saturday April 19 thanks to Easter Monday, Saturday June 7 thanks to Pentecost Monday, from Saturday July 12 thanks to the national holiday which falls on a Monday and finally from Friday August 15 thanks to the Assumption. Only November 1st falls this year during a weekend, on Saturday.
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The optimal strategy
If your company allows it – and if other colleagues do not all have the same idea at the same time as you – you can in 2025 obtain a maximum of 59 days of rest by taking only 25 days of paid leave and using your weekends. In May it will be possible to have 11 consecutive days of rest. So, mark your calendars!
