Do you want to anticipate your family vacation? Provence invites you to look at the 2025-2026 school year and reveals the calendar established by national education and published this Wednesday, August 13 on the public service website.
Back to school scheduled for September 1
Students will have to return to school benches on Monday, September 1. The teachers’ pre-buried takes place on Friday August 29, 2025. The school year will end on Saturday July 4, 2026, date of the start of the long holidays. Holidays officially start on Saturday. The recovery takes place in the morning of the days indicated in the calendar.
May bridges
This year, May 1 and 8 fall on Fridays, which can allow many to organize long weekends. However, there will be only one bridge in May, namely that of the Ascension, which fell on May 14. Students will not have class on Friday May 15 and Saturday, May 16, 2026. Pentecost Monday, also without school, occurs on May 25, 2026.
Holidays to know
Other holidays are to be noted:
- Toussaint: Saturday, November 1, 2025
- Armistice: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
- Christmas: Thursday December 25, 2025
- New Year’s Day: Thursday, January 1, 2026
- Easter Monday: Monday, April 6, 2026
- Labor Day: Friday, May 1, 2026
- Victory of the 1945 Allies: Friday May 8, 2026
- Ascension: Thursday May 14, 2026
- Pentecost Monday: Monday May 25, 2026
- National Day: Tuesday July 14, 2026
- Assumption: Saturday August 15, 2026
- Toussaint: Sunday, November 1, 2026
- Armistice: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
- Christmas: Friday December 25, 2026.
To find out the precise calendar according to your department, a simulator has been set up.
The three areas are as follows: Zone A brings together the academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers. Zone B, those of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Normandy, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes and Strasbourg. And zone C, those of Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles. For Corsica, school holidays will take place on the same dates as those in zone B.