Central Government Holiday 2025: Central government employees will get these holidays in 2025, see the full list

Central Government Holiday 2025, Gazetted Holidays For 2025 Full List: How many holidays will central government employees get in the year 2025? Which festival will fall on which day and when will there be an opportunity for multiple holidays at once. We are also providing a list of restricted holidays. See the table here to know everything.

Central Government Holiday 2025 , Gazetted Holidays For 2025 Full List: As soon as the month of November-December arrives, all the employees and working professionals start worrying about the holidays of the next year. Everyone wants to know which holidays will be available next year and which holidays will be lost due to falling on Saturday-Sunday. The central and state governments release a complete calendar of holidays for their employees, so that they can plan their holidays. The Department of Personnel and Training, under the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, has released a holiday calendar for the year 2025 for central employees.

A list of holidays has been released for employees. Apart from this list, another list has also been released. Employees in Delhi-New Delhi area can take any 2 holidays from this list in a year, while employees working at other places can take 3 restricted holidays. These are called restricted holidays.

Serial Number date Day Holiday

1 26 January sunday REPUBLIC DAY

2 26 February Wednesday MAHA SHIVARATRI (MAHA SHIVARATRI)

3 14 March Friday Holi

4 31 March monday Eid-ul-Fitr (ID UL FITR)

5 10th April Thursday Mahavir Jayanti (Mahavir Jayanti)

6 18th April Friday GOOD FRIDAY

7 12th May monday Buddha Purnima (Buddha Purnima)

8 07 June Saturday Eid-ul-Zuha or Bakrid (ID UL ZUHA)

9 06 July sunday Muharram (Muharram)

10 August 15 Friday INDEPENDENCE DAY

11 16 August Saturday Janmashtami

12 05 September Friday Prophet Mohammed's Birthday or Id-e-Milad (PROPHET MOHAMMAD'S BIRTHDAY or ID-E-MILAD)

13 02 October Thursday Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday (MAHATMA GANDHI'S BIRTHDAY)

14 02 October Thursday Dussehra or Vijay Dashmi

15 20 October monday Diwali or Deepawali (DIWALI or DEEPAVALI)

16 05 November Wednesday Guru Nanak Jayanti (GURU NANAK'S BIRTHDAY)

17 25th December Thursday CHRISTMAS

List of Restricted Holidays

If you are working in Delhi-New Delhi area then you can take any 2 days leave from this list. If you are working at any other place then you will get 3 days leave from this list also.

Serial Number date Day Holiday

1 01 January Wednesday freshman year

2 06 January monday Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh

3 14 January Tuesday Makar Sankranti/Magh Bihu/Pongal/Hazrat Ali's Birthday

4 02 February sunday Basant Panchami Shri Panchami

5 12 February Wednesday Guru Ravi Das Jayanti

6 19 February Wednesday Shiv Ji Jayanti

7 23 February sunday Swami Dayananda Saraswati Jayanti

8 13 March Thursday bonfire

9 14 March Friday Dolyatra

10 28 March Friday Jamaat-ul-Vida

11 30 March sunday Chaitra Shukladi/Gudi Padwa/Ugadi/Cheti Chand

12 06 April sunday ram navami

13 13 April sunday Vaisakhi Vishu

14 14th April monday Meshadi (Tamil New Year's Day)

15 15th April Tuesday Vaisakhadi (Bengal)/Bahag Bihu (Assam)

16 20th April sunday Easter Sunday

17 09 May Friday Guru Rabindranath Jayanti

18 27 June Friday Rath Yatra

19 09 August Saturday Raksha Bandhan

20 August 15 Friday Parsi New Year/Nowruz

21 August 15 Friday Janmashtami (Smart)

22 27 August Wednesday Ganesh Chaturthi/Vinayak Chaturthi

23 05 September Friday Onam or Thiru Onam Day

24 29 September monday Dussehra (Saptami)

25 30 September Tuesday Dussehra (Mahastami)

26 01 October Wednesday Dussehra (Mahannavami)

27 07 October Tuesday Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti

28 10 October Friday Cancer Chaturthi (Karva Chauth)

29 20 October monday Naraka Chaturdashi

30 22 October Wednesday govardhan puja

31 23 October Thursday Bhai Dooj

32 28 October Thursday Pratihara Shashthi or Sun Shashthi (Chhath Puja)

33 24 November monday Martyrdom Day of Guru Tegh Bahadur

34 24 December Wednesday Christmas Eve

Along with this, the government has also clarified that if any holiday falls during a weekly holiday or on a non-working day or more than one festival falls on the same day, then no second off will be given for it. The date of Eid ul Fitr, Eid ul Juha, Moharram and Eid-e-Milad is decided on the sighting of the moon. Any such change will also be made by the ministry.

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