Planning a holiday, planning a city trip or just wanting to know when the kids are free? These are the recommended dates for holidays in your region in the 2026–2027 school year.
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Please note: schools may deviate from this, so always check the school guide or your school’s website.
School holidays in Zoetermeer (Middle region)
Central region
Christmas holidays 2025–2026: December 20, 2025 to January 4, 2026
Spring break: February 14 to 22, 2026
May holiday: April 25 to May 3, 2026
Summer holidays: July 18 to August 30, 2026
Autumn holidays: October 17 to 25, 2026
Christmas holidays 2026–2027: December 19, 2026 to January 3, 2027
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 may shift the recommended dates for autumn and spring holidays (for example in the South around carnival). For the extra week of May holidays, OCW recommends April 18 to 26, 2026. Always check your own school calendar for the final days.
This is why school holidays shift every year
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To ensure that not everyone has a holiday at the same time, the Netherlands is divided into three regions: north, center and south. This distribution should prevent roads, campsites and amusement parks from becoming overcrowded. To ensure that you can go away with your family or friends from another region, the school holidays overlap by a few weeks.
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 necessary, because otherwise the school year will suddenly become very short or very long.