2025 in Puerto Rico

• President:
  • Joe Biden (D) (till January 20)
  • Donald Trump (R) (from January 20)
• Governor:
  • Pedro Pierluisi (D) (till January 2)
  • Jenniffer González (R) (from January 2)
• Resident Commissioner:
  • Jenniffer González (till January 2)
  • Pablo Hernández Rivera (from January 2)

• January 2 – Jenniffer González is sworn in as Governor.^[1]
• January 27 – An employee at a San Juan plumbing business kills four co-workers in a workplace shooting before killing himself.^[2]

• February 12 – Two children are killed in a shooting at a house in Rio Grande.^[3]

• March 7 – One person is injured following an oil spill of the coast of Vieques.^[4]

• April 16 – The entirety of Puerto Rico is struck by a blackout.^[5]
• April 28 – One person is killed during flooding caused by heavy rains in San Juan.^[6]

• May 3 – One person is killed after his car is struck by a falling tree caused by heavy rains in Toa Baja.^[7]

• June 2 – The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico rules in favor of allowing nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to select "X" as their gender marker on birth certificates.^[8]
• June 24 – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake off the coast of the neighboring Dominican Republic causes power outages in parts of Utuado.^[9]

• July 11–September 20 – Rapper Bad Bunny holds his 30-show residency in Puerto Rico.^[10][11]
• July 17 – Governor Gonzalez signs into law a bill barring hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people under 21.^[12]
• July 24 – Four horses are killed by a falling utility pole in Utuado that also triggers a blackout.^[13]
• July 30 – Governor Gonzalez declares an island-wide state of emergency and mobilizes the Puerto Rico National Guard in response to a water shortage that affects nearly 180,000 customers in the past week.^[14]

• August 1 – One person is killed while five others are injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Mayaguez.^[15]
• August 5 – The Trump administration dismisses all five Democratic members of the seven-person Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico, including chairman Arthur Gonzalez, citing inefficiency.^[16]
• August 10 – A tourist from the mainland United States is killed in a shooting in the La Perla neighborhood of San Juan.^[17]
• August 27 – BlackRock Financial Management withdraws from an agreement to restructure $9 billion in debt held by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority in response to changes in the composition of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico.^[18]

• September 4 – The residence of baseball player and manager Yadier Molina is a targeted by a burglary in Toa Alta, resulting in the theft of items valued at $57,000, including 14 pigs and one horse.^[19]
• September 7 – The federal government announces the deployment of 10 additional fighter aircraft to Puerto Rico to carry out operations against drug cartels amid escalating tensions with Venezuela.^[20]
• September 8 – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Air Force General Dan Caine meet with officials at Muñiz Air National Guard Base in Carolina.^[21]

• October 7 – Police find the bodies of five naked men, three near a church in Carolina and two in Santurce, San Juan. The police superintendent says the deaths are likely related to drug trafficking.^[22]
• October 19 – A broken pipe causes a water outage affecting 165,000 clients in 15 cities and towns including in San Juan.^[23]

• December 14 – Governor Gonzalez signs a bill increasing the deadline for government agencies to release documents to the public.^[24]

Source:^[25]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 6 January – Epiphany
• 11 January – Eugenio María de Hostos Day
• 20 January – Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• 14 February – Carnival
• 19 February – Presidents' Day
• 22 March – Emancipation Day
• 16 April – Birthday of José de Diego
• 18 April – Good Friday
• 20 April – Easter Sunday
• 27 May – Memorial Day
• 4 July – Independence Day
• 25 July – Puerto Rico Constitution Day
• 1 September – Labor Day
• 14 October – Columbus Day
• 11 November – Veterans Day
• 19 November – Discovery Day
• 27 November – Thanksgiving Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

• 17 October – Carlos López Rivera, 67, mayor of Dorado (since 1987)^[26]
• 6 December – Rafael Ithier, 99, salsa musician (El Gran Combo)^[27]