Spain 2015/16 - school year

Beginning of the school year

Between 3 and 14 September 2015

End of the school year

Between 16 and 24 June 2016

School year - Autumn / Christmas / New Year / Winter holidays

Christmas / New Year:
At least 2 weeks between 21 December 2015 and 10 January 2016

Winter holidays:
Between 2 and 3 days (depending on the Autonomous Community)

School year - Spring / Easter holiday

About 10 days in the period between the third week of March and the first week of April 2016

School year - summer holidays

11 weeks between late June and mid-September

Regions of the country

Specification of terms for the starting and the end of students’ school year 2015/16 in the different Autonomous Communities

	Primary education		General secondary education (1)
	Beginning	End	Beginning	End
Andalucia	10 September	22-23 June	15 September	22-23 June
Aragon	10 September	19 June	10 September (lower secondary students in primary education schools) 15 September (lower secondary) 18 September (upper secondary)	19 June (lower secondary students in primary education schools) 24 June (lower secondary and upper secondary)
Asturias	10 September	19 June	17 September	25 June
Baleares	11 September	19 June	12 September	19 June
Canarias	9 September	19 June	10 September	19 June
Cantabria	10 September	19 June	17 September	24 June
Castilla y Leon	10 September	23 June	10 September (lower secondary students in primary education schools) 17 September (lower and upper secondary)	23 June
Castilla-La Mancha	7 September	19June	15 September	24 June
Cataluna	14 September	19 June	15 September	19 June
Ceuta	9 September	23 June	9 September	20 June
Extremadura	9 September	19 June	14 September	20 June
Galicia	10 September	22 June	15 September	23 June
La Rioja	11 September	24 June	11 September	24 June
Madrid	8 September	21 June	10 September	21 June
Melilla	9 September	23 June	9 September	17 June
Murcia	7 September	23 June	16 September	23 June
Navarra (2)	Not before 10 September	Not later 16 June	Not before 10 September	Not later 16 June
Pais Vasco (2)	Not before 8 September	Not later 23 June	Not before 8 September	Not later 21 June
C. Valenciana	03 September	17 June	3 September	9 June

Additional notes:
(¹) In the last year of post-compulsory upper general secondary education, classes end up two or three weeks earlier than in the rest of stages. This time is used to prepare the university entrance examinations.
(²) In these Autonomous Communities schools are free to establish their own calendar taking into account the limit starting and ending dates established by the educational authorities.