King's Birthday | Long Weekend Guide 2025 - New Zealand

The 2025 King's Birthday Long Weekend takes place from Saturday 31st May 2025 to Monday 2nd June 2025

The 2025 King's birthday holiday is on Monday 2 June.

The King's Birthday public holiday is celebrated each year in New Zealand on the first Monday in June, even though King Charles III was born on 14 November 1948.

A public holiday on Monday means we have three whole days to play, explore, socialise, relax and generally do whatever we please.

King's Birthday is a public holiday in New Zealand as we are a member of the Commonwealth of Nations with the monarch of the United Kingdom being head of state. King Charles III is the reigning King of the Commonwealth.

❊ Monarch's Birthday ❊

King Charles III was born on the 14th November 1948, he is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states head of the Commonwealth of Nations Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith.