December 2025 Printable Calendar – With Holidays

Christmas on a Thursday

December 2025 opens on Monday the 1st and ends on Wednesday the 31st. Its only federal holiday is Christmas Day on Thursday the 25th, which is a strong placement for the holiday itself and an awkward one for the working week around it: the closure sits mid-week, so the week beginning the 22nd splits into three working days, a day off, and a single working day. Post offices, banks, and federal buildings take the 25th off, and no mail moves that day.

The Month in Numbers

December 2025 has 31 days, 23 weekdays, and eight weekend days — four Saturdays (6, 13, 20, 27) and four Sundays (7, 14, 21, 28). Removing Christmas leaves 22 federal working days, four more than November and level with October for the highest total of the fourth quarter. The month opens on a Monday and closes on a Wednesday, which produces four complete Monday-to-Friday weeks before a three-day tail.

What the Holiday Changes Either Side of It

A mid-week Christmas moves dates on both sides. The week of the 15th is the last one that behaves normally and is where anything requiring another person's attention belongs. Shipping cut-offs for standard parcel services typically fall in the second week, the 8th through the 14th, with expedited options moving later. The week of the 22nd keeps Monday the 22nd, Tuesday the 23rd, and Wednesday the 24th as working days, and Friday the 26th is a working day on paper that most workplaces treat as a holiday in practice. Retail staffing and delivery capacity both tighten from the 18th onward, so orders placed after that date carry no reliable guarantee.

Hanukkah, New Year's Eve, and the Year-End Close

Hanukkah begins on the evening of Sunday, December 14 in 2025 and runs into the following week, placing it in the middle of the month rather than against Christmas. New Year's Eve falls on Wednesday the 31st, the final day of the calendar year and the last working day for most organizations. Financial close, payroll cut-offs, and any accounting that depends on the calendar year land in the two weeks before Christmas, which is why the week of the 8th carries more weight than the week of the 22nd.

Rolling Goals Forward

This is also the month when next year's plan gets written. The practical window is the week of the 15th, when the current year's work is winding down but attention has not yet moved to the holiday. Anything decided in that week has two clear weeks to settle before January begins, longer than most people allow themselves. It is also the last realistic window for anything that needs another person's signature, since the week of the 22nd loses three days to the holiday and the week of the 29th is a two-day week at best, closing with New Year's Eve on Wednesday the 31st.

Printing the Holiday Version

The month takes a single sheet in either paper size, and the Christmas cell reads plainly without color. Marking the 25th first, then the shipping cut-off in the 8th-to-14th window, puts the month's two real deadlines in view at once. Anything ordered after the 14th is unlikely to clear a sorting hub before the holiday. Print a copy now, or take the PDF to run later or hand to anyone coordinating the same holiday plans.