School holidays in the UK 2023-2024 by city and region

In this publication, All-Holidays.Info will tell you about school holidays in the UK 2023-2024. For convenience, we have grouped them by region, separately for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

School holidays in the UK 2023-2024 – what you need to know?

The UK educational system is designed in such a way that there is no single schedule for the school year. Even at the regional level, the schedule of vacation and study periods may differ. To find out what the school holidays in the UK 2023-2024 will be like at your school, you need to know which city, borough (district) or administrative territory it belongs to.

Borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term “borough” denotes a self-governing walled city, although in practice the official usage of the term varies widely.

Source: Wikipedia.

Below we have collected links to pages by clicking on which you can find out the vacation schedule in UK schools. For convenience, we have broken them down by region. Separate sections include school holidays 2023-2024 in the United Kingdom for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

IMPORTANT! If you clicked on the link, but there is no information for 2023-2024, try visiting the page in a few days. Perhaps the school holiday schedule is not approved or not published on the official website.

General schedule for the 2023-2024 school year

Below is the general school year schedule for schoolchildren in the United Kingdom. It is recommended for all cities, boroughs and municipalities. But local administrations and state bodies can change it.

England and Wales

Autumn semester 2023

Semester start: Monday, September 4, 2023.
Mid-semester break: Monday, October 23rd to Friday, October 27th, 2023.
Deadline: Thursday, December 21, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from Friday 22 December 2023 to Friday 5 January 2024.

Spring semester 2024

Semester start: Monday, January 8, 2024.
Mid-semester break: Monday, February 12 to Friday, February 16, 2024.
End of semester: Thursday, March 28, 2024.
Easter holiday: from Friday, March 29 to Friday, April 12, 2024.

Summer semester 2024

Semester start: Monday, April 15, 2024.
May holiday: Monday, May 6, 2024.
Mid-semester break: Monday, May 27 to Friday, May 31, 2024.
End of semester: Monday, July 29, 2024.

Scotland

Autumn semester 2023

Semester start: Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
Mid-semester break: Monday 9 October to Monday 16 October 2023.
End of semester: Thursday, December 23, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from Friday, December 24, 2023 to Friday, January 5, 2024.

Spring semester 2024

Semester start: Monday, January 8, 2024.
Mid-semester break: Monday, February 12, 2024 to Friday, February 16, 2024.
End of semester: Thursday, March 28, 2024.
Easter holidays: from Friday 29 March 2024 to Friday 12 April 2024.

Summer semester 2024

Semester start: Monday, April 15, 2024.
May holiday: Monday, May 6, 2024.
End of semester: Friday, June 28, 2024.

Northern Ireland

Autumn semester 2023

Beginning of the semester: Friday, September 1, 2023.
End of semester: Thursday, December 21, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from Friday, December 22, 2023 to Tuesday, January 2, 2024.

Spring semester 2024

Deadline start: Wednesday, January 3, 2024.
Mid-semester break: Thursday, February 15, 2024 to Friday, February 16, 2024.
End of semester: Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
Easter holidays: from Thursday 28 March 2024 to Thursday 4 April 2024.

Summer semester 2024

Beginning of the semester: Friday, April 5, 2024.
May holiday: Monday, May 6, 2024.
End of semester: Friday, June 28, 2024.

School holidays in major cities and boroughs of the United Kingdom 2023-2024

Below are the school holidays in the United Kingdom 2023-2024 for major UK subdivisions.

London

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 16, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 18, 2023 to January 8, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 25, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 5, 2024.

Barking and Dagenham

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 23, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 22, 2023 to January 3, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 19, 2024 to February 23, 2024.
Spring Break: March 29, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 25, 2024.

Bristol

First day of school: September 1, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 23, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 18, 2023 to January 1, 2024.
Spring break: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 29, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer holidays: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 24, 2024.

Hounslow

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 23, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 22, 2023 to January 5, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 29, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 25, 2024.

Birmingham

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 30, 2023 to November 3, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 25, 2023 to January 5, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 25, 2024 to April 5, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 23, 2024 to August 30, 2024.

Westminster

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 23, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 22, 2023 to January 5, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 29, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 25, 2024.

Cardiff

First day of school: September 4, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 30, 2023 to November 3, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 25, 2023 to January 5, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 25, 2024 to April 5, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 23, 2024.

Kent

First day of school: September 1, 2023.
Autumn holidays: from October 23, 2023 to October 27, 2023.
Christmas holidays: from December 18, 2023 to January 1, 2024.
Spring break in the middle of the quarter: from February 12, 2024 to February 16, 2024.
Spring Break: March 29, 2024 to April 12, 2024.
Summer break in the middle of the quarter: from May 27, 2024 to May 31, 2024.
Summer holidays: from July 24, 2024.

School holidays in England 2023-2024 (England)

England consists of 9 separate regions (see fig.). For convenience, we have divided all settlements into these regions. Below are links to cities, by clicking on which you can find out what the holidays in England will be like in 2023-2024.

School holidays in the UK 2023-2024 by city and region — On the map, the numbers indicate: 1 – Greater London, 2 – South East England, 3 – South West England, 4 – West Midlands, 5 – North West England, 6 – North East England, 7 – Yorkshire and the Humber, 8 – East Midlands, 9 – East of England.

Greater London

Barking and Dagenham	Hounslow
Barnet	Islington
Bexley	Kensington and Chelsea
Brent	Kingston upon Thames
Bromley	Lambeth
Camden	Lewisham
City of London	Merton
Croydon	Newham
Ealing	Redbridge
Enfield	Richmond upon Thames
Greenwich	Southwark
Hackney	Sutton
Hammersmith and Fulham	Tower Hamlets
Haringey	Waltham Forest
Harrow	Wandsworth
Havering	Westminster
Hillingdon

School holidays in Greater London 2023-2024.

South West England

Bath and North East Somerset	North Somerset
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	Plymouth
Bristol	Somerset
Cornwall	South Gloucestershire
Devon	Swindon
Dorset	Torbay
Gloucestershire	Wiltshire
Council of the Isles of Scilly

School holidays in South West England 2023-2024.

South East England

Bracknell Forest	Portsmouth
Brighton and Hove	Reading
Buckinghamshire	Slough
East Sussex	Southampton
Hampshire	Surrey
Isle of Wight	West Berkshire
Kent	West Sussex
Medway	Windsor and Maidenhead
Milton Keynes	Wokingham
Oxfordshire

School holidays in South East England 2023-2024.

East of England

Bedford	Norfolk
Cambridgeshire	Peterborough
Central Bedfordshire	Southend-on-Sea
Essex	Suffolk
Hertfordshire	Thurrock
Luton

School holidays in East Anglia 2023-2024.

West Midlands

Birmingham	Staffordshire
Coventry	Stoke-on-Trent
Dudley	Telford and Wrekin
Herefordshire	Walsall
Sandwell	Warwickshire
Shropshire	Wolverhampton
Solihull	Worcestershire

School holidays in the West Midlands 2023-2024.

East Midlands

Derby	North Northamptonshire
Derbyshire	Nottingham
Leicester	Nottinghamshire
Leicestershire	Rutland
Lincolnshire	West Northamptonshire

School holidays in the East Midlands 2023-2024.

Yorkshire and the Humber

Barnsley	North East Lincolnshire
City of Bradford	North Lincolnshire
Calderdale	North Yorkshire
Doncaster	Rotherham
East Riding of Yorkshire	Sheffield
Hull	Wakefield
Kirklees	York
Leeds

School holidays in Yorkshire and the Humber 2023-2024.

North West England

Blackburn with Darwen	Oldham
Blackpool	Rochdale
Bolton	Salford
Bury	Sefton
Cheshire East	St Helens
Cheshire West and Chester	Stockport
Cumbria	Tameside
Halton	Trafford
Knowsley	Warrington
Lancashire	Wigan
Liverpool	Wirral
Manchester

School holidays in North West England 2023-2024.

North East England

Darlington	Northumberland
Durham	Newcastle upon Tyne
Gateshead	Redcar and Cleveland
Hartlepool	South Tyneside
Middlesbrough	Stockton-on-Tees
North Tyneside	Sunderland

School holidays in North East England 2023-2024.

School holidays in Wales 2023-2024

Blaenau Gwent	Merthyr Tydfil
Bridgend	Monmouthshire
Caerphilly	Neath Port Talbot
Cardiff	Newport
Carmarthenshire	Pembrokeshire
Ceredigion	Powys
Conwy	Rhondda Cynon Taf
Denbighshire	Swansea
Flintshire	Torfaen
Gwynedd	Vale of Glamorgan
Isle of Anglesey	Wrexham

School holidays in Wales 2023-2024.

School holidays in Scotland 2023-2024

Aberdeen	Highland
Aberdeenshire	Inverclyde
Angus	Midlothian
Argyll and Bute	Moray
Clackmannanshire	North Ayrshire
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar	North Lanarkshire
Dumfries and Galloway	Orkney Islands
Dundee	Perth and Kinross
East Ayrshire	Renfrewshire
East Dunbartonshire	Scottish Borders
East Lothian	Shetland Islands
East Renfrewshire	South Ayrshire
Edinburgh	South Lanarkshire
Falkirk	Stirling
Fife	West Dunbartonshire
Glasgow	West Lothian

School holidays in Scotland 2023-2024.

School holidays in Northern Ireland 2023-2024

In Northern Ireland, school holidays are determined by the school. The Department of Education may issue recommendations. As a rule, many schools adhere to them. Below are the recommended UK school holiday dates 2023-2024 for the Northern Ireland region:

Period	Start	End
Summer vacation	July 22, 2023	September 3, 2023
Autumn vacation	October 30, 2023	November 3, 2023
Christmas Holidays	December 23, 2023	January 7, 2024
Winter vacation	February 19, 2024	February 23, 2024
Easter holidays	March 29, 2024	April 14, 2024
spring Break	May 27, 2024	May 31, 2024

Recommended school holidays in Northern Ireland 2023-2024.

School holiday calendar in Northern Ireland

School holidays in the UK 2023-2024 (for Northern Ireland).

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