It's back to school and for some, the holidays may already seem far away!

To get a little closer, Europe 1 takes stock of the vacation and public holidays calendar for the 2020-2021 school year.

How to get rid of the back-to-school pill and the end of summer?

By planning on the next vacation!

Europe 1 takes stock of the holidays for the school year which is starting, but also of public holidays.

When is the next vacation?

The first two holiday periods are common to all zones.

The All Saints holidays will be held from Saturday October 17, 2020 to Monday November 2, 2020. A little later, the Christmas holidays will take place from Saturday December 19, 2020 to Monday January 4, 2021.

Pupils in zone A (Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Dijon, Grenoble, Limoges, Lyon, Poitiers) will be the first to take advantage of winter holidays from Saturday February 6 to Monday February 22, 2021. For zone B ( Aix-Marseille, Amiens, Caen, Lille, Nancy-Metz, Nantes, Nice, Orléans-Tours, Reims, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg), it will be from Saturday February 20 to Monday March 8 2021. Finally, zone C (Créteil , Montpellier, Paris, Toulouse, Versailles) will take advantage of the winter holidays from Saturday 13 February to Monday 1 March 2021.

Spring break will take place in zone A from Saturday 10 to Monday 26 April 2021, in zone B from Saturday 20 February to Monday 8 March 2021 and in zone C from Saturday 13 February to Monday 1 March 2021.

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Four weekends

Regarding public holidays, four of them fall on a weekend: All Saints' Day on Sunday November 1, Labor Day on Saturday May 1, the 1945 Victory on Saturday May 8 and the Assumption on Sunday August 15.

Some extended weekends are automatically planned with public holidays on Fridays December 25 for Christmas and January 1 for New Year. And if we set the first four days of the week, it will be possible to have ten days of rest. sharpened.

In two other cases, it will be smart to take days off.

The Armistice of November 11 and the National Day of July 14 fall on a Wednesday, the opportunity to spend a five-day weekend by taking two days off before or after these holidays.