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How can Hongkongers use public holidays strategically for longer breaks in 2025? The Post has answers

  • New public holiday schedule for 2025 offers chance for residents working Monday to Friday to enjoy 11 or 10-day holiday with smart use of annual leave
  • Residents will enjoy 17 days marked as public holidays next year, including five extended weekends

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Hongkongers can use their annual leave strategically to get an 11-day holiday in 2025. Photo: Eugene Lee

Hongkongers can net themselves an 11-day holiday with the smart use of their annual leave around the 2025 Christmas break, or a 10-day one over next year’s Easter festivities.

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The government announced on Friday that residents were entitled to 17 days marked as public holidays next year, including five extended weekends. The number is the same as last year.

The holiday calendar means residents working Mondays to Fridays can strategically use their annual leave to get longer holidays.

An ideal scenario would be an employee using leave to bridge next year’s Christmas holiday on December 25 and 26, which fall on a Thursday and Friday, with the New Year’s break on January 1, a Thursday.

Savvy employees might score an 11-day holiday for the Christmas break in 2025. Photo: Sam Tsang
Savvy employees might score an 11-day holiday for the Christmas break in 2025. Photo: Sam Tsang

In this situation, the employee would only need to take leave from December 29 to 31 and January 2 to net an 11-day holiday.

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