Waitangi Day 2025
New Zealand · Thursday, February 6, 2025 · FM8, Q3 of FY2025
- Country
- New Zealand
- Calendar date 2025
- 2025-02-06 (Thursday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM8 of 12 · Quarter Q3 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Employment New Zealand
About Waitangi Day
National day commemorating the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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 New Zealand fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Waitangi Day page.
2025 weekday and observance
In 2025, Waitangi Day falls on Thursday, February 6. A Thursday holiday is functionally a long weekend: many staff take the Friday as a personal day, so plan critical close milestones earlier in the week.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2025 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Thursday, February 6, 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 New Zealand fiscal calendar, Waitangi Day 2025 sits in fiscal month 8 (FM8), inside quarter Q3 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 144 days remaining until fiscal year-end on June 30, 2025. 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: Waitangi Day 2023 · Waitangi Day 2024 · Waitangi Day 2026 · Waitangi Day 2027
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Waitangi Day 2025 reduces the working-day count for FM8 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.
Cross-references
- Printable February template (FM8) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for New Zealand — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Waitangi Day page — year-agnostic background.