Holiday planning 2025 " Use your holiday wisely! ✓

Are you currently planning your 2025 holiday? Plan your holiday cleverly and maximise your days off! By making strategic use of public holidays and bridging days, you can make the most of your valuable free time. In 2025, Easter and the Christmas period in particular offer excellent opportunities to enjoy a long break with just a few days' holiday. Find out when you should cleverly plan your holiday days to have up to sixteen days off in a row.

Table of contents - What you can expect:

Public holidays 2025
How to turn 24 days of holiday into 55
Holiday planning with ZEP

These are the bridge days in 2025

Use the bridging days for your 2025 holiday planning to cleverly extend your days off! With clever planning, you can more than double your days off and make the most of your holiday. Depending on the federal state, there are numerous public holidays available to you, between which you can make optimum use of bridging days. Easter and Christmas in particular offer you the opportunity to take up to 16 days off in a row with just a few days' holiday:

More time off with less holiday: the best bridging days for 24 days' holiday entitlement

With 24 days of holiday a year, you can more than double your days off in 2025 by making clever use of public holidays and bridging days - provided you work from Monday to Friday and have the weekends off anyway.

Your holiday planning for 55 days off look:

With this plan, you use 23 days of holiday and receive a total of 55 days off. This leaves you with 1 day of holiday at your disposal.

Holiday planning 2025: These differences apply depending on the federal state

Depending on which federal state you live or work in, additional public holidays and bridging days can have a significant impact on your planning. Take advantage of the regional peculiarities to use your holiday days more effectively and get more out of your free time. Here you will find an overview of the regional public holidays for each federal state:

These long weekends are worth it in 2025!

For varied holiday planning in 2025, there are not only long holiday periods, but also numerous long weekends. These are perfect for short breaks, wellness weekends or city breaks. With just a few days' holiday, you can extend your weekends and make the most of your free time. We have listed all the long weekends for you here so that you can organise your plans in the best possible way:

Tool for perfect holiday planning

Holiday planning can often be a challenge, but with the right software, manually completed holiday requests are finally a thing of the past. With the ZEP module Overtime, Absences & Holidays you can keep an eye on the optimal times for your holidays. And: With the creation of the holiday calendar in the master data, you are guaranteed not to miss any important dates. In addition, you can see in ZEP how much of the unused holiday from the previous year is still left. This way you won't lose any holiday days. And how do you apply for days off?

Quite simply: digitally! In ZEP, click on the day you want off, enter the reason for your absence (in this case, paid holiday) and the holiday request is sent digitally to the person responsible for approving it. There's no need to fill in manual holiday requests, no more paperwork and you can take your well-deserved holiday faster!

Conclusion

With well thought-out holiday planning for 2025, you can maximise your free time and enjoy up to 55 days off with just 24 days of holiday. There are great opportunities to extend your time off, especially around public holidays such as Easter and Christmas. Pay attention to the specific public holidays in your federal state to make your planning even more targeted.

Take advantage of the many long weekends for relaxing short trips or simply to unwind. And make planning easier with digital tools like ZEP, which will help you never miss a day off and manage your holiday requests efficiently. With these tips, you can make sure you get the most out of your holiday and enjoy your time off to the full in 2025.

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