For the 2025-2026 school year, All Saints’ Day will start in mid-October. The students will then take back their way to school in November. Here are the precise dates by zone.
From the past school year, the students go to the first break of the year: the All Saints Holidays. They fall every fall in mid-October and concern all academies, without distinction between areas A, B or C. In 2025, this period of leave shared by nearly 12 million schoolchildren and college students will end with a resumption of courses set in early November.
Zone by zone, what are the dates of the All Saints holidays in 2025?
Throughout France, All Saints’ Day 2025 will take place on the same dates, whatever the academic sector. As for Christmas holidays, this period is common to three zones A, B and C. Students in zone A (Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon and Poitiers), of zone B (Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen and Strasbourg) and of zone C (Créteil, Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse and Versailles) will therefore be on leave From Saturday October 18 to Monday November 3, 2025date of the resumption of courses.
When will the All Saints holidays fall in 2026?
For the 2026-2027 school year, All Saints’ Day will remain common to the three academic areas. According to the official calendar of the Ministry of National Education, students in zones A, B and C will be on vacation at the same time, From Saturday October 17 to Monday November 2, 2026.
