2025 is already upon us, and if you haven’t already marked your calendars, here’s a reminder that Mexico has seven official public holidays in 2025.
Also worth keeping in mind is that there are a total of 11 bank holidays (which includes the official public holidays) that will occur in the upcoming year.
According to Mexico’s Federal Labor Law, on the seven official holidays of 2025, employees required to work must receive double-time pay, or 100% overtime pay.
Mexico’s official national holidays are as follows (with the actual date of the holiday in parentheses where appropriate):
- Wednesday, Jan. 1: New Year’s Day
- Monday, Feb. 3: Constitution Day, observed (actual date: Feb. 5)
- Monday, March 17: Benito Juárez’s birthday, observed (actual date: March 21)
- Thursday, May 1: Labor Day, or Worker’s Day, as it’s named in Mexico
- Tuesday, Sept. 16: Independence Day
- Monday, Nov. 17: Mexican Revolution Day, observed (actual date: Nov. 20)
- Thursday, Dec. 25: Christmas Day
Although some people might think that May 5, or Cinco de Mayo, is an official holiday in Mexico, that is not the case.
Although Mexico’s victory over France’s invading forces at the 1862 Battle of Puebla is celebrated and public schools are closed nationwide on May 5, only the state of Puebla and its neighbor state, Veracruz, observe Cinco de Mayo as an official holiday.
Some might recall that there were nine official holidays in 2024. Those extra two days were linked to the federal election cycle, which occurs every six years.
June 2, 2024, was Election Day, on which the president and both houses of Congress were elected. Although Election Day in Mexico is always on Sunday, it was declared an official holiday.
And earlier this year, Congress declared Oct. 1, 2024, to be a national holiday — Inauguration Day. The law establishes that every six years (presidents serve six-year terms in Mexico), Oct. 1 will be an official public holiday. Prior to 2024, presidents were sworn in on Dec. 1 and Inauguration Day was celebrated every six years on that date.
New holidays coming in 2025?
The newspaper El Financiero reported that there could be two new additional public holidays approved for 2025. Congress is considering making Dec. 12, the Catholic feast day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City is the most visited Catholic pilgrimage destination in the world
Congress also might declare June 1 a holiday as well — but only for this year: Mexico holds its first-ever nationwide election of judges and magistrates on Sunday, June 1, 2025.
In addition to the seven official public holidays, Mexico’s banks, currency exchanges and financial markets observe four other holidays.
- April 17: Holy Thursday
- April 18:Good Friday
- Nov. 3: Day of the Dead (although this falls on a Sunday in 2025)
- Dec. 12: Virgin of Guadalupe feast day
With reports from El Financiero, Debate and TV Azteca
My calendar shows Nov 3 as a Monday. Is DotD actually Nov 2, and observed on Monday?
It’s a little disturbing that the secular calendar is taking its guidance from the Catholic liturgical calendar, and Edie’s question raises a point about what exactly this means. DotD is All Souls Day, which is November 2, and that is determined by the Catholic Church. So, Congress is talking about secularizing it into a day that is more commercially convenient. That’s like celebrating last Christmas on December 27 to make it a three day week-end. Christmas is defined by liturgical practice, just like DotD. But the idea is not necessarily a bad one. DotD is really defined by the day before, All Saints Day, on November 1. It’s very much a “what about the common person that has died; the saints have their day and it’s a holy day of obligation to attend Mass…but we’re going to make the one commemorating all our other beloved dead a national holiday!”.