Boxing Day 2025
Canada · Friday, December 26, 2025 · FM9, Q3 of FY2025
- Country
- Canada
- Calendar date 2025
- 2025-12-26 (Friday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM9 of 12 · Quarter Q3 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Government of Canada
About Boxing Day
Statutory holiday in Ontario and federally regulated workplaces.
This page is the 2025-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the Canada fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Boxing Day page.
2025 weekday and observance
In 2025, Boxing Day falls on Friday, December 26. Friday holidays produce three-day weekends without affecting the early-week rhythm. Banking value dates for any cleared transaction slip to the following Monday.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2025 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Friday, December 26, 2025. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.
Where it lands in FY2025
For organisations on the Canada fiscal calendar, Boxing Day 2025 sits in fiscal month 9 (FM9), inside quarter Q3 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 95 days remaining until fiscal year-end on March 31, 2026. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.
For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Boxing Day 2023 · Boxing Day 2024 · Boxing Day 2026 · Boxing Day 2027
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Boxing Day 2025 reduces the working-day count for FM9 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.
If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2025 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.
Other holidays in December 2025
- December 25 — Christmas Day 2025
Cross-references
- Printable December template (FM9) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for Canada — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Boxing Day page — year-agnostic background.