School holidays 2023: shortened holidays? The 2023-2024 calendar

SCHOOL VACATION. After the start of the school year set for September 4, 2023, when will the first school holidays of the year 2023-2024 fall? Find the full schedule below.

[Mis à jour le 4 septembre 2023 à 12h19] The summer holidays are over, the start of the school year took place on Monday, September 4, 2023 for all French schoolchildren and the “summer holidays” are already far away. While the summer was marked by Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to bring forward the start of the school year to August 20, at least for students struggling to catch up, the 2023-2024 calendar is of course already fixed and official. .

The next holidays will be those of All Saints’ Day, from Saturday October 21, 2023. The return to class will take place two weeks later, Monday November 6, 2023. If you are already nostalgic for these summer holidays, you may be be planning your next family vacation. Zone A, B or C, you can find our PDF calendar to download just below. This calendar will allow you to know the dates of the next school holidays, so that you can organize your trips accordingly and plan your future holidays.

The Paris Academy is located in zone C. The departure on vacation takes place after class, the resumption of classes in the morning of the days indicated. Students who do not have lessons on Saturday are on Friday evening off after lessons. Here is the calendar of school holidays in Paris in 2023:

Zone A includes the academies of Besançon, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Lyon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Poitiers and Grenoble. Zone B includes the academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes and Strasbourg. Finally, zone C includes the academies of Créteil, Paris, Versailles, Montpellier and Toulouse. It should be noted that the academies of Corsica and overseas territories have different school calendars. You can consult them by entering the number of your department at this address.

What is the map of the school holiday zones?

Would you like to consult the 2023 school holiday calendar in Paris and everywhere in France? The dates of school holidays depend on the area where the school is located. Metropolitan France is divided into 3 academic zones to which must be added the Academy of Corsica. Find below a map of zones A, B and C which lists all the academies. As a reminder, the dates of the winter and spring holidays differ depending on the area where the school is located.

You belong to zone A if the establishment in which your child is educated is located in the academy of Besançon, Clermont-Ferrand, Limoges, Lyon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Poitiers and Grenoble. Find all the dates of the 2023 school holidays for zone A:

Zone B includes the academies ofAix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes and Strasbourg. Here are all the dates for the 2023 school holidays in zone B:

Zone C includes the academies of Créteil, Paris, Versailles, Montpellier and Toulouse. Here is the calendar which contains all the dates of the 2023 school holidays for zone C:

Good news on the calendar of public holidays for the year 2023: mobile public holidays that fell on a Sunday in 2022 fall on a Monday in 2023!

Want to go on vacation? Discuss it on our forum