Turn 12 Days Of PTO Into 45 Days Of Vacation In 2025

If we’re anything alike, it’s about right now when you’re clinging to the last remaining days of PTO before the year’s up. And though living in the country with the least amount of PTO definitely has its downfalls, there are ways to double, triple and even quadruple your vacation days—you just need to know how to maximize them!

Scheduling your trips or time off around National Holidays is a wonderful way to maximize your days off. So let’s take a glimpse at the 2025 National Holiday calendar:

• New Year’s Day: Wednesday, January 1st, 2025
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Monday, January 20th, 2025
• Presidents’ Day: Monday, February 17th, 2025
• Memorial Day: Monday, May 26th, 2025
• Juneteenth: Thursday, June 19th, 2025
• Independence Day: Friday, July 4th, 2025
• Labor Day: Monday, September 1st, 2025
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Monday, October 13th, 2025
• Veteran’s Day: Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
• Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 27th, 2025
• Christmas Day: Thursday, December 25th, 2025

By utilizing days you will already have off, such as holidays and weekends, you can create more time for yourself away from work.

Take off these dates in 2025 to maximize PTO

• December 30th, 2025 & December 31st, 2025 – supplemented with the weekend before and New Year’s Day for 5 consecutive days off
• January 21st, 2025 – supplemented with the weekend before and Martin Luther King Jr. Day for 4 consecutive days off
• February 14th, 2025 – supplemented by the following weekend and President’s Day for 4 consecutive days off
• May 23rd, 2025 – supplemented by the following weekend and Memorial Day for 4 consecutive days off
• June 20th, 2025 – supplemented by Juneteenth and the following weekend for 4 consecutive days off
• July 3rd, 2025 – supplemented by the Fourth of July and the following weekend for 4 consecutive days off
• September 2, 2025 – supplemented by the weekend before and Labor Day for 4 consecutive days off
• Friday, October 10th – supplemented by the following weekend and Indigenous Peoples’ Day for 4 consecutive days off
• November 10th, 2025 – supplemented by the weekend before and Veteran’s Day for 4 consecutive days off
• November 28th, 2025 – supplemented by Thanksgiving and the weekend ahead for 4 consecutive days off
• December 26th, 2025 – supplemented by Christmas Day and the following weekend for 4 consecutive days off

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