Find out all the public holidays and long weekends in South Africa for 2025. Discover the dates and plan your vacations accordingly.
Although South Africa will enjoy one fewer public holiday in 2025, there will be more long weekends next year than in 2024. The first is thanks to Human Rights Day on Friday, 21 March giving South Africans 21-23 March off. The third is thanks to Freedom Day falling on Sunday, 27 April, meaning Monday, 28 April is a holiday – and another three-day weekend.
Monday, 16 June (Youth Day) will mean another three-day long weekend in mid-year, while the fifth and final long weekend in another four-day one with Christmas and the Day of Goodwill (Boxing Day) falling on a Thursday and Friday, respectively. In a typical year, South Africa has 12 public holidays, which is roughly the average when compared to other countries.Workers in most European countries enjoy 10-14 public holidays a year. The United Kingdom, however, has only eight. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Myanmar has 30 public holidays, while Sri Lanka, Iran, India and China have 29, 27, 21 and 17, respectively
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