Holidays in Italy 2025 (public, unofficial and religious)
In this publication All-Holidays.Info will provide information on the following topic: holidays in Italy 2025. We will tell you not only about official public holidays in 2025. We will also provide dates of major religious celebrations and unofficial holidays in 2025 in Italy.
Below are the public holidays in Italy 2025. Pay attention to the first two positions on the list. Officially, every Sunday is a public holiday in Italy. In addition, each municipality has a patron saint.
The feast day of this saint is considered a public holiday in the territory of this municipality. You can find the full list here: Catholic patron saints of Italian municipalities (information in Italian). Below are the public holidays in Italy 2025:
Sunday.
Patron Saint’s Day.
January 1 (Wednesday) 2025 – New Year.
January 6 (Monday) 2025 – Epiphany.
April 20 (Sunday) 2025 – Easter.
April 21 (Monday) 2025 – Easter Monday (Monday of Angels or Paschetta).
April 25 (Friday) 2025 – Liberation Day.
May 1 (Thursday) 2025 – Labor Day (Workers’ Day).
June 2 (Monday) 2025 – Republic Day.
August 15 (Friday) 2025 – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Ferragosto).
November 1 (Saturday) 2025 – All Saints’ Day.
December 8 (Monday) 2025 – Immaculate Conception.
December 25 (Thursday) 2025 – Christmas.
December 26 (Friday) 2025 – Saint Stephen.
Major Religious Celebrations in Italy in 2025
In addition to public holidays, Italy widely celebrates major Catholic holidays. There is no official day off on these days, but masses, ceremonies and Catholic traditions are held throughout the country. Here is a list of major religious holidays in Italy in 2025:
February 2 (Sunday) 2025 — Meeting of the Lord.
February 16 (Sunday) 2025 – Beginning of the carnival.
March 4 (Tuesday) 2025 – Maslenitsa Tuesday, the end of the carnival.
March 5 (Wednesday) 2025 – Ash Wednesday, Early Lent.
March 9 (Sunday) 2025 — First Sunday of Lent.
March 16 (Sunday) 2025 – Second Sunday of Lent.
March 19 (Wednesday) 2025 – Saint Joseph, Father’s Day.
March 23 (Sunday) 2025 — Third Sunday of Lent.
March 30 (Sunday) 2025 – Fourth Sunday of Lent.
April 6 (Sunday) 2025 — Fifth Sunday of Lent.
April 13 (Sunday) 2025 – Palm Sunday.
April 17 (Thursday) 2025 – Holy Thursday.
May 29 (Thursday) 2025 – Ascension of Christ.
June 8 (Sunday) 2025 – Pentecost.
June 22 (Sunday) 2025 – Corpus Christi.
June 29 (Sunday) 2025 – Saints Peter and Paul.
November 2 (Sunday) 2025 – Remembrance of the Dead.
Holidays in Italy 2025 (non-public)
Below are the civil holidays in Italy 2025. There are no days off on these dates, but ceremonial and memorial events may be held. Officially, they are called holidays, but are often timed to coincide with memorable or mourning dates. Here are the non-public holidays in Italy 2025, broken down by month:
January 2025
January 7, 2025 – Tricolor Day.
January 26, 2025 – National Day of Remembrance and Sacrifice of the Alpine Troops.
January 27, 2025 – Remembrance Day.
Memorial Day January 27
On this date, the people of Italy commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. “Day of Remembrance” is the official Italian name for the international “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust”. It was decided to celebrate it annually on January 27, because on this day in 1945, the Red Army troops participating in the Vistula-Oder Offensive on the way to Germany “liberated” the Auschwitz concentration camp.
February 1, 2025 – National Day of Civilian Victims of Wars and Conflicts in the World.
February 10, 2025 – Remembrance Day.
February 11, 2025 – Lateran Pacts.
February 20, 2025 – National Health, Social Security, Social Care and Voluntary Workers Day.
February 21, 2025 is National Braille Day.
Memorial Day February 10
On this day, the Italian national civic holiday is celebrated in memory of the Foibe massacre and the exodus from Giulia and Dalmatia. Established by law no. 92 of 30 March 2004, the Day of Remembrance aims to “preserve and renew the memory of the tragedy of the Italians and all the victims of the war, of the exodus from their lands of the Istrians, Fiume and Dalmatians in the post-war period and of the more complex history of the eastern border”.
March 6, 2025 – Day of the Righteous Among Humanity.
March 17, 2025 – Anniversary of the unification of Italy.
March 18, 2025 – National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Coronavirus Epidemic.
March 21, 2025 – National Day of Remembrance and Commitment to the Victims of the Mafia.
April 2025
April 21, 2025 – Birth of Rome.
April 22, 2025 – Earth Day.
Feast of the Birth of Rome
This holiday is associated with the foundation of the city of Rome, the capital of Italy. According to legend, Romulus founded the city of Rome on April 21, 753 BC. From this date, the Roman calendar began, defined in fact by the Latin expression Ab Urbe condita, or “from the foundation of the City,” which counted the years from this supposed foundation.
May 2025
May 5, 2025 – National Day Against Pedophilia and Child Pornography.
May 9, 2025 – Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Terrorism.
May 9, 2025 – Europe Day.
June 2025
June 14, 2025 – World Blood Donor Day.
September 2025
September 9, 2025 – Remembrance Day for Sailors Missing at Sea.
September 28, 2025 – Popular uprising of Naples against the Nazis-fascists or Four days of Naples.
October 2025
October 2, 2025 is National Grandparents Day.
October 3, 2025 – National Immigration Remembrance Day.
October 4, 2025 – Saint Francis and Saint Catherine.
October 4, 2025 – World Animal Day.
October 9, 2025 – National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Environmental and Industrial Disasters Caused by Human Negligence.
October 12, 2025 – National Christopher Columbus Day.
October 24, 2025 – United Nations Day.
October 24, 2025 is National Fun Day.
November 2025
November 4, 2025 – National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day.
November 9, 2025 – Freedom Day.
November 12, 2025 – Day of Remembrance for military and civilian personnel who died while carrying out international peacekeeping missions.
November 16, 2025 – National Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims.
November 21, 2025 – National Tree Planting Day.
November 25, 2025 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
December 2025
December 1, 2025 – World AIDS Day.
In this publication we have provided public, religious and non-public holidays in Italy 2025. Using this information you can safely plan your vacation or business trips around the country. On All-Holidays.Info you can find information about holidays and school holidays in different countries. Don’t forget to share this publication with your friends!
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