A new year has started and that also includes school holidays and statutory days off! In this article you can read the dates of the school holidays and days off in 2025 in Zoetermeer.
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Further on in the overview you will also find the public holidays on which Zoetermeers students are free in 2025.
School holidays Zoetermeer 2025 (middle region)
- Spring break: February 22 to March 2, 2025.
- May holiday: April 26 to May 4, 2025.
- Summer holidays: July 19 to August 31, 2025.
- Autumn holidays: October 18 to October 26, 2025.
- Christmas holidays: December 20, 2025 to January 4, 2026.
Good to know: the above dates are for school holidays advice dates from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). Schools may deviate from this date, which means that every school in Zoetermeer may have a different start or end date.
Schools can also opt for a two-week May holiday. The OCW advises to do this the following week April 19 to 27 to use. You can see in the school guide or on your school’s website whether this is the case at your child’s school.
Holidays in 2025
Zoetermeer students are also free on these holidays:
- New Year’s Day: falls during the Christmas holidays, on Wednesday January 1, 2025.
- Easter (Easter Monday and Easter Monday): Sunday April 20 and Monday April 21, 2025.
- King’s Day*: falls during the May holidays, on Saturday April 26, 2025.
- Ascension Day: Thursday, May 29, 2025.
- Pentecost (First and Second Day of Pentecost): Sunday 8 June and Monday 9 June 2025.
- Christmas: falls during the Christmas holidays, on Thursday December 25 and Friday December 26, 2025.
*Normally we celebrate King’s Day on April 27. This will be slightly different in 2025, because April 27 will fall on a Sunday. That is why King’s Day in 2025 is on Saturday April 26.
This is why school holidays shift every year
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To ensure that not everyone in the Netherlands has a holiday at the same time, the Netherlands is divided into three regions: north, center and south. This division should prevent roads, holiday parks, campsites and amusement parks from becoming overcrowded. The school holidays do overlap by a few weeks to ensure that you can go on holiday with friends or family from another region.
The summer holidays, autumn holidays and spring holidays are always rotated. For the summer holidays, this is done according to a fixed system: middle – late – late – middle – early – early – and so on. In this way, a region may be the first or last to act twice in a row. This is also necessary, because otherwise the school year will suddenly become very short or very long.
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