July 2025: five Tuesdays, five Wednesdays, five Thursdays
July 2025 arrived on a Tuesday and left on a Thursday. Thirty-one days, 23 of them business days, spread across ISO weeks 27 to 31. The month stacked five each of Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and handed its Sundays to sport with unusual generosity. Anyone who printed this grid in 2025 probably wrote fixture lists in the margin. Four weekends, eight weekend days, and still the busiest stretch of the British summer.
The shape of the month
The 1st fell on a Tuesday and the 31st on a Thursday, so midweek collected the spare days. Five each of Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, against four of everything else, left eight weekend days and 23 business days. The full moon, a buck moon by the traditional naming, rose on Thursday 10 July. The new moon followed on Thursday 24 July, and the final week ran dark.
For anyone building a rota, the month offered two unbroken weekday runs. Tuesday 1 July to Friday 4 July came first, before a weekend could interrupt. Tuesday 29 July to Thursday 31 July came second, right at the close.
A summer of fixtures
Sport owned the Sundays. On Sunday 13 July, Jannik Sinner overcame Carlos Alcaraz to become Wimbledon champion for the first time. He was also the first Italian man to win the singles. On Sunday 20 July, The Open finished at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland, where Scottie Scheffler lifted the Claret Jug by four shots.
Sunday 27 July brought two champions within hours of each other. Tadej Pogačar wrapped up a fourth Tour de France win as the race reached the Champs-Élysées. England's Lionesses then retained the Women's Euro, seeing off Spain on penalties, 3-1, in Basel.
The month's other homecoming was louder. Black Sabbath played a farewell concert at Villa Park in Birmingham on Saturday 5 July, the original lineup reunited for a charity fundraiser. Ozzy Osbourne, the singer, died on Tuesday 22 July, aged 76, weeks after that last show.
The month's hard news
July 2025 also carried real grief. Flash floods tore through central Texas across the first weekend, from Friday 4 July to Sunday 6 July. More than 135 people died, among them families and campers on the Guadalupe River. It was the year's deadliest night of flooding in the United States.
Astronomy had its own headline. On Wednesday 2 July came confirmation of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object and only the third ever found. A Chilean survey telescope was the first to see it. The month's last week, moonless from the 24th, suited anyone watching for it.
August 2025 opened on a Friday and brought ten weekend days with it. Somebody was making amends.