November 2025 Printable Calendar

Two Closures and the Lightest Working Month of the Quarter

November 2025 begins on Saturday the 1st and ends on Sunday the 30th, so it opens and closes on a weekend with 30 days between. Twenty of those days are weekdays and ten are weekend days, and two federal holidays fall inside the month: Veterans Day on Tuesday the 11th and Thanksgiving on Thursday the 27th. Remove them and 18 federal working days remain — the lowest total of any month in the fourth quarter, and the reason annual plans most often run short here.

The Grid in Numbers

The month contains five Saturdays (1, 8, 15, 22, 29) and five Sundays (2, 9, 16, 23, 30), ten weekend days in all. Because it starts on a Saturday, the opening row of a Sunday-start grid holds a complete weekend with no working day attached to it, and the first full working week does not begin until Monday the 3rd. The month also ends on a Sunday, which means the final row carries no working day either.

Two Holidays That Break Different Weeks

Both closures land mid-week and they do different damage. Veterans Day on Tuesday the 11th splits its week into a single working day, Monday the 10th, followed by the closure and three further working days. Thanksgiving on Thursday the 27th leaves Friday the 28th as a working day that most workplaces treat as one in name only, and the weekend after it lengthens into a four-day break for many. Postal and federal services close on both dates, and mail does not run.

Thanksgiving Travel and the Retail Weekend

The final week of November is the busiest travel period of the year in the United States. Flights and long-distance road travel peak on the Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and the return peak falls on the Sunday after. Anyone booking should treat Wednesday the 26th as the deadline for everything else, because that day produces almost nothing. Black Friday on the 28th opens the retail season, and household budgeting for December is usually settled before it rather than after.

Year-End Checklists Start Here

With 18 working days and two closures, November is a poor month for starting work and a good one for closing it. Four Monday-to-Friday weeks begin in the month — the 3rd, the 10th, the 17th, and the 24th — but the last two each lose a day to a holiday. The practical method is to push deadlines into the weeks of the 3rd and the 10th, use the 17th for review and handover, and accept that the week of the 24th will be short no matter how it is planned. The month is also when next year's planning documents start to circulate, which makes it a good time to write January's commitments while the current year's numbers are still in view.

Printing the Sheet

The month's 30 days take a single sheet, and the two holiday cells stay legible in straight black and white. Marking the 11th and the 27th first, then boxing the ten weekend days, shows exactly how little of the month is available for work. Only the weeks beginning the 3rd and the 17th hold five untouched working days; the 10th loses its Tuesday and the 24th its Thursday. Print a copy now, or take the PDF if you would rather run it later or give it to a household travelling around the same dates.