School holidays 2026
What are the UK school holidays for 2026?
These are the dates most of England follows for the breaks that fall in 2026, with the days either side you could fly on. Each break has its own page naming the councils that differ.
| Holiday | First day off | Last day off | Can fly | Councils that differ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October half term | Sat 24 Oct | Sun 1 Nov | Sat 24 Oct – Sun 1 Nov | 45 of 201 |
| Christmas holidays | Sat 19 Dec | Sun 3 Jan | Sat 19 Dec – Sun 3 Jan | 43 of 201 |
Your school may not follow these. Academies set their own dates and independent schools rarely match the council. Find your school’s own dates by name or postcode, and we price flights across every day of them.
Cheapest flights for the 2026 school holidays
Everyone with these dates flies on the same days, which is when fares peak. We price every day of each break from your nearest airports, for the whole family, and show you which day to leave. Free for your next holiday.
Find your school and see the prices
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- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Argyll and Bute
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blaenau Gwent
- Bolton
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Brent
- Bridgend
- Brighton and Hove
- Bristol, City of
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Caerphilly
- Calderdale
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden
- Cardiff
- Carmarthenshire
- Central Bedfordshire
- Ceredigion
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Clackmannanshire
- Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
- Conwy
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Coventry
- Croydon
- Cumberland
- Darlington
- Denbighshire
- Derby
- Derbyshire
- Doncaster
- Dorset
- Dudley
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Dundee City
- Ealing
- East Ayrshire
- East Dunbartonshire
- East Lothian
- East Renfrewshire
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Edinburgh
- Enfield
- Essex
- Falkirk
- Fife
- Flintshire
- Gateshead
- Glasgow
- Gloucestershire
- Greenwich
- Gwynedd
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Hampshire
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Herefordshire, County of
- Hertfordshire
- Highland
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Inverclyde
- Isle of Anglesey
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kent
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Kingston upon Thames
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Leicester
- Leicestershire
- Lewisham
- Lincolnshire
- Liverpool
- Luton
- Manchester
- Medway
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Merton
- Middlesbrough
- Midlothian
- Milton Keynes
- Monmouthshire
- Moray
- Neath Port Talbot
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newham
- Newport
- Norfolk
- North Ayrshire
- North East Lincolnshire
- North Lanarkshire
- North Lincolnshire
- North Northamptonshire
- North Somerset
- North Tyneside
- North Yorkshire
- Northumberland
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Oldham
- Orkney Islands
- Oxfordshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Perth and Kinross
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Powys
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Renfrewshire
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Rutland
- Salford
- Sandwell
- Scottish Borders
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shetland Islands
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Ayrshire
- South Gloucestershire
- South Lanarkshire
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire
- Stirling
- Stockport
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- Stoke-on-Trent
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Swansea
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Telford and Wrekin
- Thurrock
- Torbay
- Torfaen
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
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- West Northamptonshire
- West Sussex
- Westminster
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- Wigan
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- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wirral
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- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
- Wrexham
- York