Summer Bank Holiday 2025
United Kingdom · Monday, August 25, 2025 · FM5, Q2 of FY2025
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Calendar date 2025
- 2025-08-25 (Monday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM5 of 12 · Quarter Q2 · printable monthly template
- Source
- UK Government bank holidays
About Summer Bank Holiday
Last Monday in August in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland; first Monday in August in Scotland.
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 United Kingdom fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Summer Bank Holiday page.
2025 weekday and observance
In 2025, Summer Bank Holiday falls on Monday, August 25. Falling on a Monday, this holiday compresses the work week to four days and pushes any month-end activity that would normally close on Monday into the following day. Plan for late-Tuesday banking value dates.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2025 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Monday, August 25, 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 United Kingdom fiscal calendar, Summer Bank Holiday 2025 sits in fiscal month 5 (FM5), inside quarter Q2 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 218 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: Summer Bank Holiday 2023 · Summer Bank Holiday 2024 · Summer Bank Holiday 2026 · Summer Bank Holiday 2027
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Summer Bank Holiday 2025 reduces the working-day count for FM5 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 August template (FM5) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q2 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for United Kingdom — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Summer Bank Holiday page — year-agnostic background.