July 2025 Printable Calendar – Monday Start

July 2025 Opens on a Tuesday, So the First Row Belongs Partly to June

The month covers 31 days, from Tuesday the 1st to Thursday the 31st. It holds 23 weekdays and eight weekend days — four Saturdays (5, 12, 19, 26) and four Sundays (6, 13, 20, 27). Independence Day is its only federal holiday, on Friday the 4th, and removing it leaves 22 federal working days, the same total October will offer and four more than November.

Why a Monday Start Suits a Mid-Year Month

A Monday-start grid puts the weekend at the right edge of every row, so a five-day working block reads as one continuous run of cells. In July that matters more than usual, because businesses running on a calendar year are doing mid-year reviews and setting fall targets, and both tasks involve counting available weeks rather than individual days. On a Sunday-start sheet the same weeks are split across two rows and the count has to be done by hand.

The Month's Rows, and Where the Holiday Lands

Drawn Monday first, the opening row runs Monday June 30 through Sunday July 6. Its working days are June 30, July 1, 2, and 3 — and then Friday the 4th is gone. That makes the month's very first Monday-to-Friday stretch a four-day week, which is easy to miss because it happens before most people have settled into July's rhythm. Three complete weeks follow, beginning the 7th, the 14th, and the 21st. The final row starts Monday the 28th and runs four working days before spilling three August days into the last cells.

Independence Day on a Friday

A Friday holiday is the most convenient arrangement available, because it converts into a three-day weekend without splitting a working week. Federal offices, banks, and post offices close on the 4th and mail does not run. In practice the closure behaves like a Thursday holiday for many workplaces, since a large share of employees take Thursday the 3rd as leave and stretch the break to four days — worth knowing when scheduling anything that needs a quorum in that week.

Mid-Year Reviews and Fall Planning

July is where the second half of the year gets decided. The three complete working weeks are the natural home for mid-year reviews, and the weeks of the 14th and the 21st are when fall projects are usually scoped and staffed, since the people needed for those decisions are still reachable before August vacations begin. Second-quarter financial close also lands in the first half of the month for most calendar-year organizations, which puts pressure on the week of the 7th.

Vacation Coverage in the Middle of Summer

Coordinating time off is the other half of July planning. School is out, so leave requests cluster in the same weeks that mid-year work needs to happen, and a Monday-start sheet makes the overlap obvious — two people marked off in the same row are visibly unavailable at the same time. Recording coverage arrangements directly on the grid, rather than in a separate document, is the habit that keeps a small team's summer from stalling.

Printing a Business Version

The Monday-first grid takes one side of letter or A4 paper, and the printed lines stay crisp in plain black ink. Monday-first rows open with a working day, which makes it straightforward to draw a line around a five-day block or shade a vacation week. Use the print button for an immediate copy, or download the PDF to print later or pin where the team can see it.