President’s Day, formally Washington’s Birthday, is a federal vacation in the USA commemorating the birthdays of two revered presidents, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The vacation is noticed on the third Monday of February and falls on February 17, 2025.
Washington’s Birthday was first declared a nationwide vacation in 1879, and Lincoln’s Birthday was added in 1885. In 1971, the Uniform Monday Vacation Act was handed, shifting the observance of each holidays to the third Monday in February. This transformation was made to create a three-day weekend for federal staff and has been broadly accepted by the American public.