Spain 2017/18 - teaching activity and holidays

Teaching activity and holidays of the academic year

Type of programme: University tertiary education

Beginning of the teaching activity:
Bachelor's: Between 4 and 26 September 2017
Master's or a PhD: The beginning of the teaching activity generally occurs between the third week of September and the third week of October.

Teaching activity:
1. Those universities starting no later than 13 September finish their teaching activity just before the Christmas holidays.
2. Those starting later than 13 September finish their teaching activity no later than 19 January.

Particular feature:
University of Salamanca: It divides the academic year in 2 equivalent intervals of 18 weeks, from 1 or 18 September (1st Bachelor year starts afterwards) to 2 February.

Christmas Holidays:
16 days between 23 December 2017 and 7 January 2018

Teaching activity:
Between the end of the Christmas holidays (University of Navarra) or the end of the 1st examination period and the start of May/June examinations: The average is mid-May. Particular features: The earliest ending date is 27 April in Navarra and the latest is mid-June in Salamanca.

Easter Holidays: About 10 days between the third week of March and the first week of April 2018

Summer Holidays: Between the end of June/July examinations and the end of August or late September

Type of programme: non-university tertiary education:

Beginning of the teaching activity:

Between mid-September and the beginning of October.

Teaching activity:

From the beginning of the teaching activity to the end of May or last week of June.

Holidays / Christmas:

Christmas: 2 weeks between 23 December 2017 and 7 January 2018.

Easter: About 10 days between the fourth week of March and the first week of April 2018.
Summer: 13 to 16 weeks between June and beginning/mid-September or the beginning of October.

Public holidays: about 12 (some of them common throughout the whole country and some specific of the different Autonomous Communities or local holidays).

Particular feature: Autonomous Community of Cantabria: the
organization and distribution of the school holidays is somehow different from that of the rest of regional administrations.

Summer holidays
Public holidays: 12 October, 6 to 8 December, 29 January.

Holiday periods:
- 1 week from 30 October
- 2 weeks from 25 December
- 22 to 27 February
- 1 week from 30 April.