Working Days in April 2025

April 2025 has 30 calendar days, of which 8 fall at the weekend. It opens on a Tuesday and closes on a Wednesday, and contains 4 Mondays — useful to know if your payroll or reporting cut-off lands on a particular weekday.

There are 2 bank holidaysin England & Wales this month: Good Friday on Friday 18 April, Easter Monday on Monday 21 April. 20 working days remain once these are removed along with the weekends.

That is 1 fewer working day than April 2024, which had 21. The shift is down to which weekday the month starts on and whether a movable holiday like Easter lands inside it.

Across the year, April has the fewest working days of any month in 2025in England & Wales — it is one of the lightest months, so build in extra slack for anything time-critical. The regions differ this month: England & Wales 20, Scotland 21, Northern Ireland 20.

For HR and payroll, the working-day count drives pro-rata pay for anyone starting or leaving part-way through April, and the number of Mondays affects weekly-paid staff and any cut-off tied to the start of the week. For project and finance teams, it sets the realistic capacity for the month before leave is even taken into account.

Working days are counted Monday to Friday, excluding the bank holidays shown above for the region you choose. Scotland and Northern Ireland carry extra holidays — Scotland’s 2nd January, St Andrew’s Day, and an early-August Summer holiday; Northern Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day and Battle of the Boyne — so a UK-wide team can have three different figures for the same month. Use the calculator below to count forwards or backwards from any date in April 2025.