South Africa School Holidays 2026

The calendar above already shades the school breaks of South Africa for 2026. Below are the exact dates.

Quick answers

When are the summer holidays in South Africa in 2026?

The published Summer Break dates are December 13, 2025 – January 11; December 12 – January 10, 2027.

What is the longest school break in South Africa in 2026?

The Summer Break: 30 days, December 13, 2025 to January 11.

How many school-break days does South Africa have in 2026?

107 days in total, spread over the breaks listed on this page.

How school holidays work in South Africa

South Africa’s school year runs January to December in four terms, so the “breaks” below are the gaps between terms — the long holiday falls over Christmas, not mid-year.
Inland and coastal provinces sometimes start terms a week apart; the national dates below are the published frame.

School breaks in 2026

School breaks that apply everywhere in South Africa, 2026
Break	From	To	Days
Summer Break	December 13, 2025	January 11	30
Autumn Break	March 28	April 7	11
Special School Holiday	June 15	June 15	1
Winter Break	June 27	July 20	24
Special School Holiday	September 25	September 25	1
Spring Break	October 3	October 12	10
Summer Break	December 12	January 10, 2027	30

About these dates

Dates come from each country's official school-calendar publications, collected by the open-data OpenHolidays project, and cover public schools. Ministries publish year by year, so a future year can be partial until its calendar is announced; individual schools can also add their own in-service days. Treat this as the official frame and the school's own calendar as final. Dates last checked against the source on 2026-08-27.

Looking for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada or Australia? Their dates are set by school districts, local authorities or state education departments rather than published as one national table — those pages explain how each system works and what to print instead. The school-year calendar (August to July on one page) works for any district once you pencil in your own dates.

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The generator on this page shades every break listed here, on top of the public holidays, moon phases and week numbers you can already turn on. The PDF is free, with no watermark and no sign-up.