If you have limited paid vacation days, you’ll want to book these dates in advance to stretch your 2025 time off.
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If you’re among those lucky enough to get paid time off at work, you know the value of a vacation.
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But what if you don’t have that many PTO days and still want to get away for longer or more frequently? Then you’ll want to be strategic about when you schedule those PTO days. For many, that means booking around long weekends and other holidays so that you can maximize the length of your time off.
In 2025, there’s a number of statutory holidays in Canada and B.C. that happen to fall on Tuesdays, which means if you work a standard Monday to Friday schedule and typically get stats off work, you could book off the Monday before a Tuesday stat and end up with a four-day period of time off, despite only using one PTO day.
Families with kids in grade school will also want to check your school district’s calendar to see when professional development days fall, as that’ll mean an automatic long weekend, giving your family more flexibility to get away.
Here’s how to stretch 14 days of paid vacation into 38 days off in 2025.
February
Book off: Feb. 14 and Feb. 18
PTOs used: 2 days
Vacation length: 5 days
April
Book off: April 22 to 25, April 28
PTOs used: 5 days
Vacation length: 11 days
June
Book off: June 27, 30
PTOs used: 2 days
Vacation length: 5 days
September
Book off: Sept. 29
PTOs used: 1 days
Vacation length: 4 days
November
Book off: Nov. 10
PTOs used: 1 days
Vacation length: 4 days
December
Book off: Dec. 22 to 24
PTOs used: 3 days
Vacation length: 9 days
