October 2025 Printable Calendar – Monday Start

Columbus Day Opens the Third Row

October 2025 starts on Wednesday the 1st, so a Monday-start layout opens with a row shared with September, covering Monday September 29 through Sunday October 5. The month's only federal holiday, Columbus Day, falls on Monday the 13th — the first cell of the third row. On a grid where each row is one working week, that makes the shortened week unmistakable: the third row begins with a day off rather than a working day, and the four days that follow carry the week on their own.

The Grid in Numbers

October 2025 runs 31 days with 23 weekdays and eight weekend days — four Saturdays (4, 11, 18, 25) and four Sundays (5, 12, 19, 26). Removing Columbus Day leaves 22 federal working days, the highest total of any month in the fourth quarter. That figure matters more than usual, because November brings two federal holidays and only 18 federal working days, and December loses Christmas in addition. October is where the fourth quarter's real capacity sits.

Why That Makes October the Delivery Month

If something has to be finished before the year ends, the calculation is straightforward: 22 working days in October against a much thinner November and December. Three habits make the month deliver:

• Start year-end work in the first row rather than the last. The rows beginning the 6th and the 20th are both complete working weeks with no interruption.
• Use Columbus Day week for review, not for launches. Four working days is enough to check progress and not enough to start something new.
• Book external dependencies early. Approvals, vendor lead times, and anything involving another department get harder after November begins.

In a Monday-first grid the month falls into five rows, and only one of them is shortened. The first row is shared with September and holds three October working days, the 1st through the 3rd. Rows two and four are complete five-day weeks. Row three opens with Columbus Day. The final row runs Monday the 27th through Friday the 31st, so the month closes on Halloween with an unbroken working week behind it.

Halloween Closes the Month

Halloween falls on Friday the 31st, the final working day of the month, and it lands in the last row alongside Monday the 27th through Thursday the 30th. For households with children, the day itself is less disruptive than the week leading up to it, which typically brings costume preparation, school events, and evening commitments. For businesses, the 31st is often a reduced-coordination day, so anything requiring a decision from another team should be handled by Wednesday the 29th.

The End of Daylight Saving Time Is Close

October is the last full month on daylight saving time; clocks move back an hour at the start of November. That means the working days in the last week of October are the final ones with evening light, and outdoor work, commutes, and after-school activities all shift later in the day from November onward. Scheduling anything that depends on daylight into the last two rows uses it while it is still there.

Printing the Monday-Start October Sheet

October's 31 days take one sheet of letter or A4 stock, and the print stays readable with or without color. Marking Columbus Day on the 13th first, then boxing the weekend columns, gives the clearest read of a month whose value lies in its four complete working weeks. Use the print button for an immediate copy, or download the PDF if you want to print later or share the same grid with a team working toward the end of the year.