May 2025 Printable Calendar – Monday Start

The Holiday Opens the Final Row

May 2025 begins on Thursday the 1st, so a Monday-start grid opens with a row shared with April: Monday April 28 through Sunday May 4. From there three complete weeks follow, and the final row begins with Memorial Day itself — Monday the 26th — before running through Saturday the 31st. That is an unusual placement, because the last row of the month starts with a day off and ends midway through a weekend. On a Monday-first layout the shape is unambiguous: the working month effectively finishes on Friday the 23rd, and everything below that line is holiday and month-end tidying.

The Month in Numbers

May 2025 runs 31 days and contains 22 weekdays and nine weekend days — five Saturdays (3, 10, 17, 24, 31) and four Sundays (4, 11, 18, 25). With Memorial Day on the 26th removed, 21 federal working days remain. The extra Saturday at the end is a feature of the row structure: five working weeks across four full rows plus a partial one, which is more capacity than a month with a mid-month holiday typically offers.

Reading Capacity Off the Rows

For anyone scheduling against weekly targets, the count is direct:

• Row 1 (Apr 28 - May 4): two working days after the month begins on Thursday; useful for clearing April's carryover.
• Row 2 (5-11): the first complete working week and the strongest delivery window of the month.
• Row 3 (12-18): the second full week; also the heaviest stretch for school-year events.
• Row 4 (19-25): the last week that requires full coordination before the holiday; anything needing a bank, a postal deadline, or a counterparty must finish here.
• Row 5 (26-31): holiday Monday, then four working days ending the month on a Saturday.

Why the Last Week Still Counts

It is tempting to treat the week of Memorial Day as lost time, and in a Monday-start grid it is easy to see how much of it remains: four working days, Tuesday the 27th through Friday the 30th, with no other holiday behind them. That is enough for month-end close, for the June planning that needs to happen before summer availability thins out, and for any work that depends on decisions made before the holiday. Small businesses preparing for a seasonal increase in demand typically use exactly these four days to finish training and scheduling.

The Difference From a Sunday-Start Version

Printed with Sunday at the head of each row, the same month would show the Memorial Day weekend split across the bottom of one row and the top of the next, and each working week would straddle two rows. For personal scheduling both versions work. For a month where the goal is to place four full working weeks, lock a delivery deadline into the final four days, and know exactly which weekend is still free, the Monday-first arrangement removes the counting.

Printing the Sheet

A4 and US Letter both take the whole month on a single sheet, and the contrast holds up on a mono laser printer. Boxing the weekend columns first, then marking the 26th, makes the boundary between the working month and the holiday period obvious. Use the print button for an immediate copy, or download the PDF if you would rather print later or pass the same layout to someone coordinating around the same long weekend.