North Rhine-Westphalia school holidays 2026
The calendar above already shades the school breaks for North Rhine-Westphalia in 2026. That is 104 days off across the year, against an average of 104 for the 16 federal states of Germany.
Quick answers
When do the summer holidays start in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2026?
Summer holidays begin on July 20, with 13 federal states starting earlier — the first goes on June 29, the last on August 3.
What is the longest break in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2026?
The Summer Holidays: 44 days, July 20 to September 1.
How many days off does North Rhine-Westphalia get in 2026?
104 days. 7 of the 16 federal states compared here get more. Regions differ because the dates are set locally, not nationally.
All North Rhine-Westphalia school holidays in 2026
| Break | From | To | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christmas Holidays | 16 | ||
| Easter Holidays | 13 | ||
| Pentecost Holidays | 1 | ||
| Summer Holidays | 44 | ||
| Autumn Holidays | 15 | ||
| Christmas Holidays | 15 |
Dates come from the official school-calendar publications for Germany, 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 Germany sets school holidays
- Each of the sixteen Länder sets its own dates, and the summer breaks are deliberately staggered by a long-running federal-state agreement so the whole country is not on the autobahn in the same fortnight. Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg traditionally go last.
- Beyond the big five breaks (autumn, Christmas, winter, Easter, summer), Länder sprinkle single movable days — Repentance Day in Saxony, post-Ascension bridge days — which appear in the tables below.
- Dates are fixed years in advance, which is why this data already reaches 2030.
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Other federal states in 2026
- Brandenburg
- Berlin
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bavaria
- Bremen
- Hesse
- Hamburg
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Lower Saxony
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Saarland
- All of Germany