May 2025 Printable Calendar – With Holidays

Memorial Day Closes the Month

May 2025 ends with its only federal holiday. Memorial Day falls on Monday the 26th, the last Monday of the month, and the week that begins with it runs just four working days: Tuesday the 27th through Friday the 30th. Federal offices, banks, and post offices close on the 26th. Placing the closure in the final row rather than mid-month concentrates the disruption at the very end, which leaves the first four weeks unusually intact.

The Grid in Numbers

May 2025 runs 31 days, beginning on Thursday the 1st and ending on Saturday the 31st. Of its 31 days, 22 are weekdays and nine are weekend days: five Saturdays (3, 10, 17, 24, 31) and four Sundays (4, 11, 18, 25). Removing Memorial Day leaves 21 federal working days. The month closes on a Saturday, so the final row carries a weekend with no working days after it, and Friday the 30th is the last working day of May.

Mother's Day and the Summer Kickoff Weekend

Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 11, in the second week. The Memorial Day weekend that closes the month is the traditional start of the American summer travel season, with the heaviest road traffic on the Friday before and on the Monday itself. Anyone booking travel should expect prices and availability for the 23rd through the 26th to move earlier than for any other weekend in the month. Retail and hospitality businesses see their sharpest seasonal shift of the year in that final weekend, and summer staffing usually begins to take shape in the week of the 12th.

End-of-School Logistics

The other seasonal weight in May is the school year winding down. Testing windows, spring performances, end-of-year field trips, and registration for fall all land in the last three weeks. Those dates are usually published well ahead, so writing them onto the sheet as they arrive keeps them out of a separate system and visible next to the work commitments competing for the same days. Graduation season also lands in the final two weeks, with ceremonies, open houses, and family travel that often fall on the same weekend for different households. Those dates are fixed months in advance and are usually the first commitments written onto a May calendar.

Where the Working Days Actually Fall

Read row by row, four Monday-to-Friday weeks begin in the month — the 5th, the 12th, the 19th, and the 26th — though only the first three are complete five-day stretches, since the last begins with the holiday. The week of the 5th is the first full working week and the strongest delivery window; the weeks of the 12th and the 19th are the ones to use for anything requiring a bank, a postal deadline, or a counterparty.

Printing the Holiday Version

Every day of May lands on a single sheet, and the Memorial Day cell is just as clear on a mono print. Marking the 26th first, then boxing the weekend columns, makes the boundary between the working month and the holiday period unmistakable. Starting with the 26th is the sensible order, since the holiday shapes how much of the final week can absorb work. Use the print button for a copy straight away, or download the PDF to print later or hand to anyone coordinating around the same long weekend.