How is the school year organised across Europe? Despite some differences, countries show many similarities regarding the structure of their school calendars in primary and general secondary education. In most education systems, the 2025 summer holidays will start in June. But the length of the break varies significantly: from 6 weeks or less in Denmark, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein, and some Swiss cantons, to as much as 14 weeks in some regions of Italy. This year for the first time, Eurydice is releasing the school calendars as an interactive web-tool, providing all dates for school holidays at national level and by region or zone.
It provides information on the start of the school year, as well as the timing and length of school holidays.
