In a little while the schools will start again. Can’t wait for the next vacation now? Then it is good to know when the school holidays fall in Zoetermeer in the 2025-2026 school year.
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Later in the article you will also find the holidays on which Zoetermeer students are free in 2025-2026.
School holidays Zoetermeer 2025-2026 (Central region)
- Autumn holiday: 18 to 26 October 2025
- Christmas holiday: December 20, 2025 to January 4, 2026
- Spring break: 14 to 22 February 2026
- May holiday: April 25 to May 3, 2026
- Summer vacation: July 18 to August 30, 2026
Good to know: the above dates for school holidays are advice dates from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). Schools may differ from this data, which means that every school in Zoetermeer can have a different start or end date for every holiday.
Schools can also opt for two weeks of May holiday. The OCW advises to the week of it 18 to 26 April To use. In the guide or on the website of your school you can see if this is the case at your child’s school.
Holidays in 2025-2026
On these holidays, Zoetermeer students are also free:
- Easter Monday: Monday, April 6, 2026
- King’s Day: Monday, April 27, 2026
- Ascension Day: Thursday, May 14, 2026
- Whit Monday: Monday, May 25, 2026
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 the regions of North, Central and South. This classification must prevent the roads, holiday parks, campsites and amusement parks to become overcrowded. The school holidays have a few weeks overlap to ensure that you can go on holiday with friends or family from another region.
The summer holidays, autumn holidays and spring break are always rotated. Before the summer holidays, this goes according to a fixed system: middle – late – late – middle – early – early – and so on. In this way it is possible that a region is the first or last one in a row.
Zoetermeer falls in the Central region and has the third summer vacation this school year. Next school year (in 2027) this region is the second.