When to plan your vacation in 2025 – free downloadable calendar!

A new year is approaching, new resolutions and plans! And if you’re wondering how and when to plan weekend trips, we’ll tell you how to use only 10 vacation days to have as many as 39 days off for 8 weekend getaways (at least 3 days) and 3 trips lasting at least a week. Yes, you will still have 16 vacation days left – just enough for a solid 2-week vacation :)

We often get questions about how to travel so much while working a full-time job, when there are only 26 vacation days per year available. We believe that with sensible vacation planning you can really manage to spend a lot of days on the road, as we will show you in the coming year.

We have always respected every day of vacation at work and treated it as an opportunity to go away, if only for 3 days. While working full-time, I don’t think we’ve ever used a leave of absence for any purpose other than travel (in fact, it happened once – while “picking up” an outstanding leave after maternity and waiting for a place in the nursery ;) ). We always looked at the calendar for the whole year at the beginning of the year and thought about when we would take time off so as to create as many opportunities for trips as possible.

Of course, this does not mean that you also have to spend every free day traveling. We know that there are different situations, not everyone works full-time with fixed working hours, not everyone can take vacation when it suits them and, after all, there are companies that work according to different calendars, nevertheless, we hope that this post will help you plan your vacation accordingly so that it is suitable to your abilities.

In this post, we’ll show you how to make good use of vacation days in 2025, so that you’ll have a few extended weekends, two vacations of more than a week, and still have a dozen vacation days left for longer vacations.

Long weekends and days off in 2025

Is 2025 rich in opportunities for an extended weekend? By all means, although they are not as gracious as in previous years! Quite a few of these days fall on a weekend, but fear not. Days off that fall on Saturday can be taken on another day (usually the employer determines which day we can take). When do the free days fall? The first are, of course, in January: January 1 and January 6. And here, each of these days falls during the week/ So we can make an extension of the Christmas vacation this way :) For the next opportunity with a long weekend we have to wait until April – Easter Monday falls on the 21st.

April.

From here it’s pretty close to the May Day weekend, which is pretty average this year! Although the 1st of May falls on a Thursday, but the 3rd of May already falls on a Saturday. Admittedly, we can take this day off, so you only need to take 1 day off to have a string of 5 days off work. Nothing but to take advantage ;) Another is Corpus Christi, which in 2025 is on the 19th of June, of course, on Thursday.

So taking one day off (Friday) awaits you up to 4 days off. It will be very similar in August: However, the 15th of August falls on a Friday, so we only have 3 days off here. Nov. 1 is on Saturday this year, but you can pick it up on Friday (as most of us will probably do). November 11 falls on a Tuesday, so by taking 1 day off we automatically have an extended 4-day weekend :)

The Christmas holiday is an interesting one – the 25th. December is Thursday, and December 26 is Friday. Let’s remember that the 1st is also free. January, which falls on the following Thursday, so by taking just 3 days off, we have as many as 8 days off!

How many vacation days will be left after long weekends are used up?

To sum up the above, for all these days we only need 10 days of vacation from the pool of 26 available as standard. This means that you still have 16 days left “in your pocket”! And that’s probably the best news this year ;)

How to use them? It could be consecutive week-long trips, it could be one longer one, or any other combination your supervisor agrees to ;) What’s more, combined with one of the longer weekends, it can even give you a whole month’s vacation!

Vacation calendar 2025

We, as a rule, print ourselves a calendar at the beginning of the year and on it we mark what trips and when we plan. With a colored highlighter we mark which days we want to go, and with a pen we add on the side where and how many days of vacation for this trip. When plans change so dramatically that we can’t read the notes it’s time for a new calendar, we just print it again ;)

This year, we decided to prepare such a free calendar for you! You can print it out for yourself and plan both shorter and longer trips together. We have given the calendar a travel character, and marked options for longer weekends, so you can immediately see where the greatest opportunities are :)

We make the calendar available to you free of charge in our store, here:

 

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Summary

We hope you like the calendar idea and it will help you plan your vacations. Or do you have any other tips to schedule your days off differently? Let us know in the comments!