Full list of US 2025 federal holidays

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Today marks another holiday in the U.S. — Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Indigenous Peoples' Day, which is celebrated as an alternative to Columbus Day, is typically observed on the second Monday in October. This year, it will take place on Monday, October 13, 2025.

Originally, it was Columbus Day that became a federal holiday in 1937, after an effort by Roman Catholic Italian Americans, who were then members of a particularly stigmatized ethnic and religious group. Members of the group campaigned to make Columbus Day a holiday to celebrate Italian explorer Christoper Columbus’s arrival in America, after he completed four voyages for Spain across the Atlantic Ocean.

The campaign to make Columbus Day a holiday cultivated the false impression that Columbus literally discovered the Americas, even though Indigenous communities had established settlements at least 500 years before Columbus’s arrival.

There’s also been immense recognition that the American narrative of Columbus Day has served to marginalize Indigenous peoples, whose communities were negatively impacted by colonization. So, instead, Indigenous Peoples’ Day highlights the brutal history of the man, and his treatment of the Indigenous people he found already living in the Americas when he arrived.

In 2021, former U.S. President Joe Biden issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. He said in a statement that the day is meant to “honor America’s first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today.”

Labor Day falls on the first Monday of September every year

Although Indigenous Peoples’ Day is not a federal holiday, Columbus Day is, and they both fall on the same day. This means all banks will be closed on Monday, October 13 1. Online banking and ATMs will be accessible.

The stock market and the United States Postal Service will also be closed.

However, the holiday doesn’t guarantee that all workers around the U.S. will get the day off. It is up to individual employers to decide whether they offer time off or additional pay for work on federal holidays.

Find the list in full below:

New Year’s Day: Wednesday, January 1

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Monday, January 20

Inauguration Day: Monday, January 20

Presidents’ Day: Monday, February 17

Memorial Day: Monday, May 26

Juneteenth National Independence Day: Thursday, June 19

Independence Day: Friday, July 4

Labor Day: Monday, September 1

Indigenous Peoples’ Day (also observed as Columbus Day): Monday, October 13

Veterans Day: Tuesday, November 11

Thanksgiving Day: Thursday, November 27