French school holidays for 2022 - 2023

WITH summer coming to an end, and la rentrée fast approaching, school children will soon be heading back to class with the doors opening on Thursday 1 September, 2022.

The school holiday dates for the year are outlined below, and while the dates mention Saturday that is for the last date should lessons take place, in most cases it will be the Friday the day before that school finishes.

Vacances de la Toussaint 2022
End of class, Saturday 22 October 2022
Start day, Monday 7 November 2022

Vacances de Noël 2022
End of class, Saturday 17 December 2022
Start day, Tuesday 3 January 2023

A key feature of the calendrier scolaire is the different dates for holidays amongst the different educational zones in France.

The three distinct zones when it comes to the dates of when classes break up are:

Zone A: Académies de Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers

Zone B: Académies d'Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Normandie, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Strasbourg

Zone C: Académies de Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles

And the division of schools regions comes into play during the mid-winter and Easter holidays.

Vacances d'hiver 2023
Zone A: End of class, Saturday 4 February 2023. Start day, Monday 20 February 2023

Zone B: End of class, Saturday 11 February 2023. Start day, Monday 27 March 2023

Zone C: End of class, Saturday 18 February 2023. Start day, Monday 6 March 2023

Vacances de printemps 2023 (Easter)
Zone A: End of class, Saturday 8 April 2023. Start day, Monday 24 April 2023

Zone B: End of class, Saturday 15 April 2023. Start day, Monday 2 May 2023

Zone c: End of class, Saturday 22 April 2023. Start day, Monday 9 May 2023

Pont de l'Ascension 2023
End of class, Wednesday 17 May 2023
Start day, Sunday 21 May 2023

Grandes vacances - Summer holidays 2023
End of class, Saturday 8 July 2023

Download Calendrier-scolaire-2022-2023-91418 (.pdf)