How to maximise your leave in 2025

Already looking ahead to your next break? Here are important dates in 2025 you need to know. Click the link below to discover how to use the least amount of annual leave. Get the longest stretch of time for your holiday this year.

Turn your 20 days leaves to 60 days in NEW ZEALAND – How to maximise your 2025 annual leavei

Public holidays 2025

• January 1 – New Year’s Day
• January 2 – A day after New Year’s Day
• February 6 – Waitangi Day. If you take the Friday Feb 7 off, you have four days off.
• In April, the 18th, 21st and 25th are Good Friday, Easter Monday and Anzac Day. The occurrence happens once in 3 years. For this year 2025, take April 14th to 17th and April 22 to 24 off. You will then get 16 days off.
• June 2nd is King’s birthday while Matariki (Maori’s new year) is on June 20th. So you can take your leave on June 3 to June 6 or June 16 to June 19. But my pro tip – save June’s AL for December
• Next public holiday is labour’s day which is on October 27. So book your annual leave around that day.
• Finally the big one, Christmas and Boxing Day which will need 6 days annual leave to get 16 days off.

Everything is explained in the link above. Make sure to check it out if you’re struggling with how to approach it. New Zealand has regional anniversary days which is similar to what we have for states in Nigeria. For instance, Akwa Ibom state is on September 23 of every year. Three days after my birthday 😄. Here’s a list of all the anniversary days in New Zealand.

Regional anniversary holidays

• Wellington Anniversary – January 20
• Auckland Anniversary – January 27
• Nelson Anniversary – February 3
• Taranaki Anniversary – March 10
• Otago Anniversary – March 24
• Southland Anniversary – April 22
• South Canterbury Anniversary – September 22
• Hawke’s Bay Anniversary – October 24
• Marlborough Anniversary – November 3
• Canterbury Anniversary – November 14
• Chatham Islands Anniversary  – December 1
• Westland Anniversary – December 1