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Business Days in January 2025 for France

January 2025 has 22 jours ouvrés under the French national holiday calendar. January 2025 contains one French national holiday on a weekday. The month covers 31 calendar days, of which 8 are samedi and dimanche. That count drives invoice cycles, payroll runs, and any contract that defines deadlines as a number of jours ouvrés in France.

jours ouvrés

22

Calendar Days

31

Weekend Days

8

jours fériés

1

Work Weeks

4.4

January 2025 business day calendar
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jours fériés in January 2025

Wed, Jan 1Jour de l'An

France January deadlines

January is the heaviest payroll month in France. DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) for December is due January 5 (large employers) or January 15 (small employers). URSSAF social contributions for the December cycle settle in early January. The fiscal year resets for VAT-registered businesses on the calendar year.

Day-of-week distribution

The count of each weekday in January 2025. Useful for shift scheduling, weekly recurring billing, and any rota that depends on a specific weekday landing in-month.

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Monday4
Tuesday4
Wednesday5
Thursday5
Friday5
Saturday4
Sunday4

France reporting cycles and business-day rules

French business-day cycles align with DSN (Déclaration Sociale Nominative) due on the 5th (large employers) or 15th (small employers), URSSAF social-charge settlement, and quarterly TVA filings. Banque de France-administered TARGET2 clears euro payments same-day; SEPA cycles match the German timeline. The LME (Loi de modernisation de l'économie, August 4, 2008) caps payment terms at 60 days end-of-month or 45 days end-of-month for international invoices under Code de commerce L441-10. Court deadlines under CPC Article 642 roll to the next jour ouvrable when they land on a non-working day.

January 2025 jours ouvrés compared by country

Working-day counts vary across countries because each country observes its own public holidays. The table below puts France alongside the other ten supported holiday calendars for January 2025.

CountryBusiness DaysHolidays this month
🇺🇸United States21New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
🇬🇧United Kingdom22New Year's Day
🇨🇦Canada22New Year's Day
🇦🇺Australia21New Year's Day, Australia Day (observed)
🇮🇳India23None
🇵🇭Philippines21New Year's Day, Chinese New Year
🇫🇷France (this page)22Jour de l'An
🇩🇪Germany22Neujahrstag
🇯🇵Japan21New Year's Day, Coming of Age Day
🇲🇽Mexico22Año Nuevo
🇸🇬Singapore20New Year's Day, Chinese New Year Day 1, Chinese New Year Day 2

How January 2025 compares year over year

January 2024 also had 22 jours ouvrés, so working capacity is unchanged year over year. On the surrounding months, December 2024 has 21 jours ouvrés and February 2025 has 20. Looking forward, January 2026 has 21 jours ouvrés under the same French national holiday calendar.

Using this calculator in France

A Paris-based DAF (directeur administratif et financier) uses the 22-day January 2025 count to align DSN payroll declaration windows with URSSAF settlement and quarterly TVA filings via télérèglement. A Lyon manufacturing controller uses the count to track LME 60-day maximum payment-term compliance under Code de commerce L441-10. A Marseille shipping firm uses jours ouvrés math to align Banque de France clearing with charter-party payment windows.

For informational purposes only

This calculator provides general estimates based on business day counting rules. It does not constitute legal advice. Deadlines in legal, regulatory, or contractual matters may be subject to jurisdiction-specific rules, court orders, or statutory exceptions. Always verify critical deadlines with a qualified professional.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many business days are in January 2025 for France?
January 2025 has 22 jours ouvrés under the French national holiday calendar. The month spans 31 calendar days, of which 8 fall on a weekend and 1 is a French national holiday that lands on a weekday. The remaining 22 weekdays are countable as jours ouvrés for invoicing, deadline tracking, and contract math.
Which France holidays affect January 2025?
January 2025 contains one French national holiday: Jour de l'An on Wednesday, January 1. Banks and France financial markets close on each of these days. Regional or industry-specific closures may add further non-working days for narrower contract definitions; layer them into the calculator's Advanced options if needed.
Why is Lundi de Pentecôte sometimes a holiday and sometimes a working day?
Lundi de Pentecôte is a national jour férié under Article L3133-1 of the Code du travail, but the Journée de Solidarité (created 2004 to fund autonomy services) is by default tied to it. Each employer chooses whether to designate Lundi de Pentecôte as the unpaid working day or to spread the seven hours across the year. In practice, most banks and the Bourse de Paris close Lundi de Pentecôte. This calculator treats Lundi de Pentecôte as a holiday, which matches banking-system behavior.
How does the LME 60-day rule affect business-day calculation?
The Loi de modernisation de l'économie (August 4, 2008) caps standard payment terms at 60 days end-of-month or 45 days end-of-month for invoices under Code de commerce L441-10. The 60-day clock counts calendar days from the invoice date, but the actual payment must clear on a jour ouvrable. When the 60th day lands on a samedi, dimanche, or jour férié, the deadline rolls to the next jour ouvrable under the Code civil Article 642. This calculator's jours ouvrés count gives the effective LME compliance date.
Why does the business-day count vary year to year?
Two things shift the monthly count for France. First, the day of the week the first of the month lands on changes the count of each weekday. Second, French national holidays anchored to a fixed date shift their weekday across years. Some years a fixed-date holiday lands on a weekend; some countries shift the observance to an adjacent weekday and some absorb it into the weekend. January 2024 also had 22 jours ouvrés, so working capacity is unchanged year over year.

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