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France school holiday calendar: zone B

Zone B’s school holidays in green, the public holidays in red.

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Zone B’s holidays next to zones A and C, 2026–2028

A family in zone B planning a ski week or a spring trip wants to know when the other zones are off too, since that is when trains and resorts fill up. Autumn, Christmas and summer are the same for all three zones; winter and spring are staggered. Dates are first and last day off; classes resume the next morning.

Break Zone A Zone B Zone C
All Saints’ (Toussaint) 2026 17 Oct – 1 Nov17 Oct – 1 Nov17 Oct – 1 Nov
Christmas (Noël) 2026 19 Dec – 3 Jan19 Dec – 3 Jan19 Dec – 3 Jan
Winter (hiver) 2027 13 – 28 Feb20 Feb – 7 Mar6 – 21 Feb
Spring (printemps) 2027 10 – 25 Apr17 Apr – 2 May3 – 18 Apr
Ascension bridge 2027 Fri 7 MayFri 7 MayFri 7 May
Summer (été) 2027 from Sat 3 Julfrom Sat 3 Julfrom Sat 3 Jul
Winter (hiver) 2028 19 Feb – 5 Mar5 – 20 Feb12 – 27 Feb
Spring (printemps) 2028 22 Apr – 8 May8 – 23 Apr15 Apr – 1 May

Zone B is the last zone to go in winter 2027: it overlaps zone A on 20–28 February and zone C only on the weekend of 20–21 February, then has the first week of March to itself. At spring all three are off on 17–18 April. On the PDF the February 2027 page ends with “School holidays Zone B: Vacances d’hiver Feb 20 – Mar 7”.

How it works

  1. Zone B is already chosen. Pick the year — “Automatic” takes the next one from September.
  2. Pick the layout: a month to a page, the whole year on one, or the year planner with a column for every month.
  3. Download the PDF: the holidays are shaded green and listed at the foot of each page, the public holidays in red — both by their French names (Vacances d’hiver, Lundi de Pâques).

Frequently asked questions

When are the zone B school holidays in 2026–2027?
All Saints’ (autumn) holidays: 17 October – 1 November 2026; Christmas holidays: 19 December 2026 – 3 January 2027; winter holidays: 20 February – 7 March 2027; spring holidays: 17 April – 2 May 2027; Ascension bridge: Friday 7 May 2027; summer holidays: from Saturday 3 July 2027. Each runs from the first to the last day off; classes resume the next morning.
When are the zone B winter holidays in 2027?
Saturday 20 February to Sunday 7 March 2027 — two weeks, 10 school days; classes resume on Monday 8 March. The spring holidays follow from 17 April to 2 May 2027. In 2028 zone B goes first: 5–20 February.
Which cities are in zone B?
The académies (education regions) of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Normandie, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes and Strasbourg. Corsica and the overseas regions have calendars of their own and are not included.
Which public holidays are marked?
France’s eleven: in 2027, New Year’s Day (1 January), Easter Monday (29 March), Labour Day (1 May), Ascension Day (6 May), Victory in Europe Day (8 May), Whit Monday (17 May), Bastille Day (14 July), Assumption Day (15 August), All Saints’ Day (1 November), Armistice Day (11 November), Christmas Day (25 December).
Where do the dates come from?
From the ministerial orders (arrêtés) that fix the calendrier scolaire for 2025–2026, 2026–2027 and 2027–2028, read on Service-Public.fr and in the education ministry’s open data. The summer holidays are taken to run to 31 August.
How many school days does each break take?
The autumn, winter and spring breaks run from a Saturday to the Sunday fifteen days later: 16 days, 10 of them weekdays. Christmas 2026 takes 8 school days, because Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall inside it. Over 2026–2027 the autumn, Christmas, winter and spring breaks and the Ascension Friday add up to 39 school days, before the summer.
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