| New Year's Day | 2025-01-01 (Wednesday) | In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January. Most solar calendars, such as the Gregorian and Julian calendars, begin the year regularly at or near the northern winter solstice. |
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| Day after New Year's Day | 2025-01-02 (Thursday) | The Day after New Year’s Day is a public holiday in New Zealand celebrated on January 2nd each year, right after New Year’s Day (January 1st). Most businesses, schools, and government offices are closed. This extra public holiday gives people more time to celebrate, recover, travel, and spend time with family after the New Year festivities. It is unique to New Zealand and means the New Year holiday period lasts two days for most people. |
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| Anniversary Day | 2025-01-27 (Monday) | In addition to the eleven national public holidays, section 44 of the Holidays Act 2003 specifies as public holidays the anniversary days of each province (or the day locally observed as that day) to celebrate the founding days or landing days of the first colonists of the various colonial provinces. |
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| Waitangi Day | 2025-02-06 (Thursday) | Waitangi Day, the national day of New Zealand, marks the anniversary of the initial signing—on 6 February 1840—of the Treaty of Waitangi. |
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| Good Friday | 2025-04-18 (Friday) | Good Friday, also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday, Great and Holy Friday, or Friday of the Passion of the Lord, is a solemn Christian holy day commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. |
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| Easter Monday | 2025-04-21 (Monday) | Easter is a Christian holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead—marking the culmination of Holy Week—and is often observed with church services, festive meals, and traditions like egg hunts and chocolate bunnies. |
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| Anzac Day | 2025-04-25 (Friday) | Anzac Day is Australia’s and New Zealand’s national day of remembrance held each April 25 to honor the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps—particularly those who served and died at Gallipoli in World War I—and all who have served in conflicts, typically marked by dawn services, marches, and wreath-laying ceremonies. |
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| King’s Birthday | 2025-06-02 (Monday) | King’s Birthday is a public holiday in Australia celebrating the reigning monarch’s official birthday, observed on the second Monday in June in most states (with varying dates in Western Australia and Queensland) and marked by civic ceremonies, community events and the annual Birthday Honours. |
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| Matariki | 2025-06-20 (Friday) | In Māori culture, Matariki is the Pleiades star cluster and a celebration of its first rising in late June or early July. The rising marks the beginning of the new year in the Māori lunar calendar. |
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| Labour Day | 2025-10-27 (Monday) | Labour Day is an annual day of celebration of the labour movement and its achievements. It has its origins in the labour union movement, specifically the eight-hour day movement, which advocated eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. |
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| Christmas Day | 2025-12-25 (Thursday) | Christmas Day is celebrated on December 25th to honor the birth of Jesus Christ and is observed worldwide with religious services, family gatherings, gift exchanges and festive meals. |
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| Boxing Day | 2025-12-26 (Friday) | Boxing Day, also called as Offering Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide. Boxing Day was once a day to donate gifts to those in need, but it has evolved to become a part of Christmas festivities, with many people choosing to shop for deals on Boxing Day. |
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