Overview school holiday dates 2024-2025

The Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap – OCW (Ministry of Education, Culture and Science) fixes the dates of the main school holidays and gives advisory dates for spring and autumn holidays. Your school may deviate from these. The school guide will tell you when your school's holidays are.

The following holiday dates in the 2024-2025 school year are for basisonderwijs (primary education), speciaal onderwijs (special education) and middelbaar onderwijs (secondary education). In middelbaar beroepsonderwijs – MBO (secondary vocational education) and tertiary education institutions are free to set their own holiday dates.

School holidays 2024-2025

For school holidays, the Netherlands is divided into 3 regions: Noord, Centraal and Zuid.

Regio Noord Regio Midden Regio Zuid

Herfstvakantie
(autumn holiday)

26 October –
3 November 2024
26 October –
3 November 2024
19 October –
27 October 2024

Kerstvakantie
(Christmas holiday)

21 December 2024 –
5 January 2025
21 December 2024 –
5 January 2025
21 December 2024 –
5 January 2025

Voorjaarsvakantie
(spring holiday)

15 February –
23 February 2025
22 February –
2 March 2025
22 February –
2 March 2025

Meivakantie
(May holiday)

26 April –
4 May 2025
26 April –
4 May 2025
26 April –
4 May 2025

Zomervakantie
(summer holidays)

12 July –
24 August 2025
19 July –
31 August 2025
5 July –
17 August 2025