After a month and a half of classes, students all over the country enter the fall vacation. This marks the first break of the 2025-2026 school year and will be followed by a new period of study until the winter break, the longest of the year.
The students enjoy a week of vacation. PHOTO: classpop
A week of vacation
After just a few weeks of classes, students across the country are putting away their textbooks on Friday, October 24, for the first break of the new 2025-2026 school year. It is about the autumn vacation, a period of respite long awaited by students, which comes after a beginning of the year marked by changes in education, homework and the specific rhythm of the school.
Classes will resume on Monday 3 November 2025 with the start of the second learning module, which will run until mid-December.
Module II: courses until the winter break
The second course module takes place between November 3 and December 19, 2025, followed by the winter vacation, the longest of the 2025-2026 school year.
Students and teachers will benefit from 19 consecutive days off, as January 6 (Baptism) and January 7 (Saint John the Baptist) are declared legal holidays, being the longest vacation of this school year.
Classes will resume on Thursday, January 8, 2026, with the start of the third module.
The mobile holiday: the locally determined “ski” week
After the resumption of classes, a new stage of study follows, which will end before the mobile vacation, scheduled at the beginning of February.
Between February 9 and March 1, 2026, each county school inspectorate and the Bucharest City Inspectorate will decide the exact period of the mobile vacation.
This is especially intended for recreational and sports activities, being also known as the “ski holiday”. As Adevărul already wrote, the schools were obliged to announce the chosen date by October 1, 2025.
Full structure of the 2025–2026 school year
The Ministry of Education has established five course modules and five holiday periods for the 2025–2026 school year:
* Course modules:
Module I: September 8 – October 24, 2025
Module II: November 3 – December 19, 2025
Module III: 8 January – 6 February 2026 (or until 13/20 February, depending on local decisions)
Module IV: February 16 (or February 23/March 2) – April 3, 2026
Module V:
April 15 – June 19, 2026
* Holiday periods:
Autumn vacation: 25 October – 2 November 2025
Winter vacation: December 20, 2025 – January 7, 2026
Mobile holiday: one week between February 9 and March 1, 2026
Spring Break (Easter): 4 – 14 April 2026
Summer vacation: June 20 – September 7, 2026
“Different School” and “Green Week” are mandatory programs
The two educational programs, “Different School” and “Green Week”, will take place between September 8, 2025 and April 3, 2026, each for five consecutive working days.
The Ministry of Education specifies that these activities must be organized in different course modules, and the exact period is determined by each educational unit.
