After a month and a half from the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, the students enter the autumn vacation. After its completion, another month and a half of school follows until the winter vacation.
There were less than 20 days to vacation. Photo shutterstock
The courses of the new school year – whose opening festivities took place on September 8, 2025, did not start well – that the students are preparing to go on vacation. Only two and a half weeks are separated from the first respiro this year.
The autumn holiday 2025 is scheduled between October 25, 2025 – 3 November 2025.
The calendar of the course modules and the holidays in the school year 2025-2026
The Structure of the School Year 2024-2025 is divided into five learning modules, alternated with holidays.
Thus the first module, started on September 8, it runs by October 24, 2025followed by a short autumn holiday.
The second module begins on November 3 and ends on December 19just before the winter vacation.
Courses start back after holidays, on January 8, 2026, And the third module will end on a variable date, established by the school inspectorates: either 6, 13 or February 20.
Fourth module will take place in the period 16 or 23 February – April 3, 2026depending on the local decision.
Last module is scheduled between April 15 and June 19, 2026.
Shorter but more frequent holidays
Students will benefit from five holidays during the year.
The first, autumn holiday, is scheduled between October 25 and November 2, 2025. The winter vacation will start on December 20, 2025 and will end on January 7, 2026covering the holiday period.
One of the news is the so-called “mobile vacation”, or the ski holiday, which will be established locally, in the range February 9 – March 1, 2026.
Spring holiday is scheduled between 4 and 14 April 2026again Summer vacation will start on June 20to be completed on September 6, 2026.
There are also exceptions: the students of the eighth grade will finish the courses earlier, on June 12-2026, and the high school students from the 12th and 13th grades will end the school year on June 5, 2026.
Students from technological high schools and vocational schools will continue until June 26, 2026.
Additional free days
In the school year 2025-2026, the students in Romania benefit from several free days, in addition to the already established school holidays. These include:
October 5, 2025: International Education Day, according to the legal provisions and the collective labor contract applicable in education.
June 5, 2025: Teacher’s Day, celebrated annually on June 5, is marked in Romania as a free day for students and teachers in pre -university education, starting with 2024, according to the applicable collective labor agreement.
June 9, 2025: The second day of Pentecost, legal free day, according to the Labor Code.
The legal holidays provided in the Labor Code, as follows:
January 1: New Year;
January 2: The second day of the New Year;
January 6: Boboteaza;
January 7: Saint John the Baptist;
January 24: The Day of the Union of the Romanian Principalities;
April 10: Good Friday;
April 12: Orthodox Easter;
April 13: The second day of Easter;
May 1: Labor Day;
May 31: Pentecost;
June 1: the second day of Pentecost;
June 1: Children’s Day;
August 15: The Assumption of the Virgin Mary;
November 30: Saint Andrew;
December 1: National Day of Romania;
December 25: the first day of Christmas;
December 26: The second day of Christmas.
According to article 3 of the structure of the school year 2025-2026 approved by the Order of the Minister of Education no. 3,463 of March 4, 2025, these days no courses are organized.
