The Easter holidays: when parents are trying to scramble around for childcare, while buying their body weight in chocolate eggs to give them energy for all the Easter eggs hunts they need to plan.
But, of course, Easter is also a very important date to many in the religious community.
An important date in the Christian calendar, it marks the days that Jesus Christ was crucified and then his resurrection.
To mark this occasion, the UK is granted bank holidays, but the specific dates this covers changes year-on-year, depending on when the Sundays fall in the calendar and where the moon is in early spring.
Easter Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Monday are normally days we are given off but when are the bank holidays for 2025?
Here is what you need to know:
When is Easter 2024?
Easter Sunday falls on April 20 for 2025, almost a month later than last year, when it fell on March 31.
As a result, Good Friday will be on Friday, April 18, marking a national bank holiday in the UK.
Easter Monday is set to be on Monday, April 21, which will complete a four-day weekend for those in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
In Scotland, Easter isn’t a nationwide bank holiday, although various councils do claim it as one.
When are the school holidays?
For most schools, the Easter holidays in 2024 will be from April 7, 2025 to to April 21, with schools going back on the Tuesday, April 22. However, some areas differ.
Why does Easter change every year?
Each year, Easter is moveable – unlike Christmas, for example.
Easter’s date depends on the lunar cycle, as well as the timing of the Jewish festival of Passover, which is rooted in the Biblical account of Jesus’s crucifixion and resurrection.
