Make the right use of bridging days How to get the most out of your vacation days in 2025

2025 is just around the corner. Everyone is coming back from the summer vacations and thinking about how to plan for the coming year. It works with these bridging days.

The vacation days are never really enough. You should start planning your vacations for 2025 now. Bridge days are a great way to extend your vacation time.

blue News shows you how to make the most of your vacation days to get the most out of your time in Switzerland.

January 2025

In 2025, the New Year's days are on good vacation days. If you use your vacation days correctly, you can really make the most of them.

January 1 is a public holiday throughout the country. So if you take Thursday, January 2, and Friday, January 3, off, you can look forward to 5 days off with just two vacation days.

The situation is even better in the cantons of Aargau, Bern, Jura, Neuchâtel, Schaffhausen, Thurgau, Vaud and Zurich. In these cantons, January 2 is also a day off. This means that only one vacation day is due for five days off, namely on January 3.

In the cantons of Graubünden, Schwyz, Ticino and Uri, there is even an extended weekend. Here, January 6 is a public holiday. If you take the 2nd and 3rd of January off, you can extend your vacation from the 1st to the 6th of January.

March 2025

St. Joseph is a public holiday in some cantons in March. And it falls on a Wednesday in 2025. So with 2 days' vacation on Thursday and Friday, 5 days could be taken off.

April 2025

Easter usually offers a good opportunity for vacations, as Friday and Monday are public holidays throughout the country. In 2025, there are two ways to have 9 days off with 4 vacation days. One option is with 4 days off from April 14 to 17, or from April 22 to 25.

May 2025

Labor Day and Ascension Day will be in May next year. Around these days, you can relax for 9 days with 4 vacation days.

June 2025

Summer is approaching and you don't want the stress of summer travel. Then Whitsun and Corpus Christi in June offer good opportunities to have a few extra days off.

August 2025

In August, there are two opportunities to have 9 days off with 4 days of vacation. One is the national holiday on August 1, simply take the four days off from the 28th to the 31st. Then there is Assumption Day on 15.8. Here you have to take vacation from 11 to 14 August.

September 2025

September 2025 beckons with many days off. Geneva's Day of Prayer offers four days off for just one day of vacation. At the Knabenschiessen in Zurich, four days of vacation are enough for 9 days off and in some cantons, four days off can be taken around Mauritius Day on 22 September.

October 2025

Going on vacation in autumn is also very nice. One way for people in Lucerne to have 4 days off is through St. Leodegar, which is on a Thursday next year. Simply take the Friday off and enjoy the days.

December 2025

The snow beckons in December. Here are some opportunities to spend many days off in the snow with just a few vacation days around the Feast of the Assumption, Christmas and St. Stephen's Day.

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