2025 in Austria

Events in the year 2025 in Austria.

Incumbents

January – February – Vienna Ball Season
4 January – Karl Nehammer announces his resignation as Chancellor and leader of the Austrian People's Party after the party fails to form a government following the 2024 Austrian legislative election.
6 January – Herbert Kickl of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria receives a mandate from President Alexander Van der Bellen to form a new government.
19 January – 2025 Burgenland state election: The SPÖ loses its absolute majority in the Landtag of Burgenland.

4 – 16 February – FIS Alpine World Ski Championships
10 February – A 14-year-old boy is arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack on Wien Westbahnhof railway station in Vienna on behalf of Islamic State.
12 February – Herbert Kickl surrenders his mandate to form a government to President Alexander Van der Bellen after talks with the ÖVP to form a coalition fail.
15 February – 2025 Villach stabbing attack: A 14-year-old boy is killed while five people are injured in a knife attack in Villach. The suspect, a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker, is arrested.
27 February – The SPÖ, ÖVP and NEOS announce an agreement to form a coalition government to be led by the ÖVP's Christian Stocker as Chancellor.

3 March – Christian Stocker is inaugurated as Chancellor.
12 March – The government suspends family reunion procedures for migrants, citing issues in adequately integrating them.

14 May – The Austria Startup Conference
17 May – Austria's JJ wins Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland with the single "Wasted Love".
26 May – A court in Vienna overturns the conviction of former chancellor Sebastian Kurz for perjury in 2024.
29 May–1 June – Narzissenfest | Daffodil Festival

10 June – Eleven people, including the gunman, are killed in a school shooting in Graz.
13 June – Summer Night Concert Schönbrunn
20 – 22 June – Donauinselfest
27 – 29 June – Austrian Grand Prix
30 June – A mudslide hits the Gschnitztal valley in Tyrol, prompting the evacuation of 100 people.

July – August – Salzburg Festival
July – August – Festival of Early Music
3 July – 20 July – Wachau Apricot Festival
5 July – A light propeller aircraft originating from Germany crashes near Wald im Pinzgau, killing all four people on board.
13 July – A man kills one person and seriously wounds another before shooting himself in Traiskirchen, Lower Austria.
16 July – 17 August – Bregenzer Festspiele
25 July – 2 August – La Strada
25 July – An accomplice of the main suspect in the 2024 Vienna terrorism plot is convicted by a court in Wiener Neustadt on a separate charge of involvement with Islamic State and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
28 July – Thomas Oberreiter resigns as Austria's ambassador to the European Union amid allegations that he had kept a private blog containing sexually explicit content.

20 August – The Austrian public broadcaster ORF designates the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna as the venue for Eurovision 2026.
26 August – An acquaintance of the main suspect in the 2024 Vienna terrorism plot is convicted by a court in Germany for plotting and supporting a terrorist attack overseas and sentenced to a suspended 18-month prison term.

3 September – 7 September – Ars Electronica Festival
30 September – Austria expels a Russian diplomat accused of spying on the oil company OMV.

3 November – A Latvian national is arrested at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof for threatening to stage a hostage crisis aboard a train traveling from Vienna to Innsbruck.
6 November – The government announces the discovery by the Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service of a weapons cache linked to Hamas in Vienna.
mid November – Late December – Christmas markets
18 November – Austria qualifies for the 2026 FIFA World Cup after drawing 1–1 against Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification.
21 November – 24 November – 45th Jazzfestival Saalfelden
27 November –
*Three skiers are injured while several others are reported missing following an avalanche that hits the Daunscharte Pass on the Stubai Glacier in Tyrol.
*Austria finishes in second place at the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar after losing to Portugal 1–0 in the final.

9 December – A court in Vienna dismisses an extradition request by the United States for Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash on charges of bribery.
11 December – The National Council passes a bill outlawing the wearing of Muslim headscarves by girls under 14 years old.

2 January – Thomas Streicher, 66, mathematician
9 January – Otto Schenk, 94, actor, film and theatre director
13 January – Walter Deutsch, 101, musicologist
16 January – Hans Dobida, 95, ice hockey administrator, president of the Austrian Ice Hockey Association
17 January – Martin Pollack, 80, journalist and author
20 January – Reinhard Todt, 75, politician, member and president of the Federal Council
27 January – Baldur Preiml, 85, ski jumper, Olympic bronze medalist
29 January – Max Schautzer, 84, Austrian-born German television and radio presenter >

1 February – Peter Schmidl, 84, clarinetist, principal clarinetist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
2 February:
* Johannes Hübner, 68, politician, member of the National Council and the Federal Council
* Marion Wiesel, 94, Austrian-American translator and Holocaust survivor
3 February – Herbert Madejski, 79, politician, MP
26 February – Hans Pirkner, 78, footballer

12 March:
* Walter Schwimmer, 82, politician and diplomat, secretary general of the Council of Europe
* Norbert Cyffer, 81, German-Austrian linguist
26 March – Hannes Tretter, 73, lawyer

27 September – Georg Stefan Troller, 103, journalist, screenwriter and director.