Bern school holidays 2026
The calendar above already shades the school breaks for Bern in 2026. That is 129 days off across the year, against an average of 116 for the 26 cantons of Switzerland.
Quick answers
When do the summer holidays start in Bern in 2026?
Summer holidays begin on July 4, with 8 cantons starting earlier — the first goes on June 18, the last on July 20. It shares that date with 10 other cantons.
What is the longest break in Bern in 2026?
The Summer holidays: 40 days, July 6 to August 14.
How many days off does Bern get in 2026?
129 days. 5 of the 26 cantons compared here get more. Regions differ because the dates are set locally, not nationally.
All Bern school holidays in 2026
| Break | From | To | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas | 16 | ||
| Christmas | 12 | ||
| February week | 9 | ||
| Spring holidays | 15 | ||
| Spring holidays | 17 | ||
| Summer holidays | 37 | ||
| Summer holidays | 40 | ||
| Autumn holidays | 23 | ||
| Autumn holidays | 12 | ||
| Christmas | 17 | ||
| Christmas | 15 |
Dates come from the official school-calendar publications for Switzerland, collected by the open-data OpenHolidays project. Last checked on 2026-08-27. They cover public schools; an individual school can add in-service days of its own, so treat this as the frame and the school's own calendar as final.
How Switzerland sets school holidays
- Switzerland delegates school calendars to the twenty-six cantons, and they genuinely differ — sports week in February is a Swiss institution but lands differently canton by canton.
- Even within a canton, communes can vary by a few days; treat the cantonal dates as the frame and check the school for the edges.
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The generator at the top of this page shades every break listed here, on top of the public holidays, moon phases and week numbers you can turn on. Pick a different canton in the sidebar to compare, or switch the calendar language — the language of the calendar and the region of the holidays are independent settings. The PDF is free, with no watermark and no sign-up.
Other cantons in 2026
- Aargau
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Basel-Landschaft
- Basel-Stadt
- Fribourg
- Geneva
- Glarus
- Grisons
- Jura
- Lucerne
- Neuchâtel
- All of Switzerland