The approximately 12.5 million French students still have to wait a bit before being able to take advantage of the summer holidays, which will begin on Thursday July 7 after class.
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Several questions arise regarding the organization of your next vacation: when is the start of the school year in September?
When do the All Saints holidays start?
When are the next public holidays?
Good news, the new 2022-2023 school calendar has already been unveiled by the Ministry of National Education.
Find all the useful information on the dates of the next school holidays for zone A, B and C. What to prepare for your next getaways in the green, in the sun, in France or elsewhere by anticipating bridges and summer holidays.
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What are the dates of the next school holidays 2022 for zone A, B, C?
Classes will start on Friday, May 27.
The students will therefore do the Ascension Bridge from Thursday May 26 to Monday May 30, 2022. The summer holidays (also called summer holidays) will begin on Thursday July 7.
The start of the 2022 school year is scheduled for Thursday, September 1.
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What are the dates of the 2022-2023 school holidays for zone A, B, C?
In 2023, school children in France will not have lessons on Friday May 19 and Saturday May 20 due to the Ascension Bridge.
The summer holidays will begin on July 8.
What is the map of zones A, B and C for school holidays?
Zone A includes the academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers.
The dates of the All Saints' Day and Christmas holidays are common to the three zones.
Those of February and Easter are staggered.
In 2022, zone B leads the way, followed by zone A and then zone C. In 2023, zones A and B swap places.
The order will be: A, B then C.
What are the dates of the school holidays in zone A?
Zone A
includes the academies of Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers.
You belong to
zone B
if you or your children are educated in the academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg.
Zone C
includes the academies of Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles.
For the year 2021-2022, the dates of the
spring holidays
are fixed from Saturday April 16 to Monday May 2, 2022.
For the year 2022-2023, the All Saints' Day and Christmas holidays will take place, as in all zones, from Saturday October 22 to Monday November 7, 2022, and from Saturday December 17 to Tuesday January 3, 2023. Winter and Spring, the pupils of zone A will leave the class first.
They will take place from Saturday February 4 to Monday February 20, 2023, and from Saturday April 8 to Monday April 24, 2023.
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What are the dates of the school holidays in zone B?
You belong to zone B if you or your children are educated in the academies of Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg.
For the year 2021-2022, zone B is on vacation before the others, from Saturday April 9 to Monday April 25, 2022 for
spring
.
For the year 2022-2023, the All Saints' Day and Christmas holidays will take place, as in all zones, from Saturday October 22 to Monday November 7, 2022 from Saturday December 17 to Tuesday January 3, 2023. For winter and Spring, schoolchildren in zone B will not have lessons from Saturday February 11 to Monday February 27, 2023 and from Saturday April 15 to Tuesday May 2, 2023.
What are the school holiday dates for Zone C?
Zone C includes the academies of Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles.
In 2022,
spring break
will take place from Saturday April 23, 2022 to Monday May 9, 2022 for spring.
For the year 2022-2023, the All Saints' Day and Christmas holidays will take place, as in all zones, from Saturday October 22 to Monday November 7, 2022 from Saturday December 17 to Tuesday January 3, 2023. For winter and of Spring, the schoolchildren of zone C go on vacation the last.
They will take place from Saturday February 18 to Monday March 6, 2023 and from Saturday April 22 to Tuesday May 9, 2023.
The vacation dates of the academies of Corsica, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Reunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon are specific.
To know them, you can consult the government website.
What are the dates of the 2022 public holidays?
Of the 11 annual public holidays, only four do not fall during school holidays or a weekend in the 2021-2022 school year.
These are World War I Armistice Day, Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Monday.
Such is the hard law of the calendar.
What are the dates of the 2023 public holidays?
Of the 11 public holidays in 2023, only Ascension Thursday (on May 18) will make it possible to bridge the gap.
The ministry has indeed affirmed that Friday 19 and Saturday 20, “classes will go”.
May 1 and May 8 will both fall on a Monday in 2023, and May 29, Whit Monday, is declared “school-free”.