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Paid vacation: here's how to get 32 ​​vacation days in 2025 by taking only 5 days off

5 jours de congé vous permettront d’avoir 32 jours de vacances pour 2025. MAXPPP – Richard Villalon

En optimisant correctement ses congés payés, les salariés de France pourront profiter d’un total de 32 jours de vacances en posant juste 5 jours de repos, grâce aux 11 jours fériés en 2025.

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When should you take your paid leave to benefit from a maximum of vacation days ? By taking only 5 days of rest, you can benefit from a total of 32 vacation days for the year 2025.

With the 11 public holidays spread over the year, and depending on the day on which they fall, it can be interesting to give yourself a few days of rest to go on vacation, according to Capital.

List of public holidays in 2025:

New Year: Wednesday, January 1st Easter Monday: Monday, April 21 Labor Day: Thursday May 1st Victory 1945: Thursday May 8th Ascension: Thursday May 29th Whit Monday: Monday June 9th National Day: Monday July 14th Assumption: Friday August 15th All Saints' Day: Saturday November 1st Armistice 1918: Tuesday November 11th Christmas: Thursday December 25th

Best days to take

If you want to take advantage of the month of May, three public holidays fall on a Thursday. Then, you just need to take a day off on Fridays, May 2, 9, and 30 to enjoy three four-day weekends in a single month.

Concerning the month of November, November 11 falls on a Tuesday. Which offers four days of rest by taking Monday, November 10.

Finally, for the end-of-year holidays. December 25 and January 1 both fall on a Thursday. You will then just need to take Fridays, December 26 and January 2, 2026 to have two long weekends during the winter.

Teilor Stone

By Teilor Stone

Teilor Stone has been a reporter on the news desk since 2013. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining Thesaxon , Teilor Stone worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my teilor@nizhtimes.com 1-800-268-7116