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School holidays: Zürich

Preserved school-holiday dates for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, separated by region and data year.

2026 addition: EDK annual overview dated 8 July 2025 (charts 2 May 2025), checked 20 October 2026. The official PDF was supplied by the operator; external byte identity could not be verified. School and local scopes remain separate. Christmas 2025/26 and earlier legacy data are not reverified by this addition.

EDK / IDES: 2027 overview (dated 13 May 2026) and provisional 2028 overview, checked 19 October 2026. Each row identifies its scope; municipal, language-area and school-type calendars may differ. Tables group breaks by starting year, including Christmas across New Year. Missing dates are not inferred.

Only the school-year start and Christmas are uniform canton-wide. Spring, summer and autumn dates are recommendations; municipalities decide freely. Sports breaks vary.

EDK / IDES · 2026

EDK / IDES · 2027

EDK / IDES · 2028 · 2028: provisional – subject to change, not finally confirmed dates.

2025

School holidays: Zürich 2025
Date	from	to
sports break	9 Feb 2025	21 Feb 2025
spring break	6 Apr 2025	20 Apr 2025
summer break	6 Jul 2025	8 Aug 2025
autumn break	5 Oct 2025	17 Oct 2025
Christmas break	24 Dec 2025	2 Jan 2026

2026

School holidays: Zürich 2026
Date	from	to
spring breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2026	18 Apr 2026	3 May 2026
summer breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2026	11 Jul 2026	16 Aug 2026
autumn breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2026	3 Oct 2026	18 Oct 2026
Christmas breakCompulsory schools EDK 2026	19 Dec 2026	3 Jan 2027

2027

School holidays: Zürich 2027
Date	from	to
spring breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2027	24 Apr 2027	9 May 2027
summer breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2027	17 Jul 2027	22 Aug 2027
autumn breakCompulsory schools Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2027	9 Oct 2027	24 Oct 2027
Christmas breakCompulsory schools EDK 2027	18 Dec 2027	2 Jan 2028

2028

School holidays: Zürich 2028
Date	from	to
spring breakCompulsory schools Provisional Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2028	14 Apr 2028	30 Apr 2028
summer breakCompulsory schools Provisional Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2028	15 Jul 2028	20 Aug 2028
autumn breakCompulsory schools Provisional Cantonal recommendation; municipalities decide EDK 2028	7 Oct 2028	22 Oct 2028
Christmas breakCompulsory schools Provisional EDK 2028	23 Dec 2028	7 Jan 2029