Public holidays in the Canton of Vaud 2026 and 2027

Public holidays in the Canton of Vaud 2026 and 2027

Not every public holiday is a day off everywhere; the rules of your canton and municipality apply.

School holidays 2026/2027 in the Canton of Vaud

For this school year, our data source so far only lists the holidays in the table; the others will follow as soon as the source adds them. The EDK publishes an official overview.

School holidays 2027/2028 in the Canton of Vaud

For the 2027/2028 school year, our data source does not yet list any school holidays in the Canton of Vaud. As soon as they are added, they will appear here and in the app. The EDK publishes an official overview.

Subscribe as a calendar

Subscribe to the school holidays and public holidays in the Canton of Vaud in your calendar. A subscription picks up changes by itself whenever we refresh the data; a downloaded file stays as it is.

The school holiday file contains what our data source lists so far; a subscription will add the rest by itself.

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• School holidays as a file (.ics)
• Public holidays as a file (.ics)

In Google Calendar, you add a calendar by its address (“From URL”): https://jh-familysync.app/en/school-holidays/canton-vaud/school-holidays-canton-vaud.ics

Automatically in the family calendar

In JH FamilySync, the holidays go into the family calendar automatically, for everyone in the family and every year, as soon as our data source lists them. When you set up the family, the app asks for your region straight away. It is free. In the app, holidays currently appear with their German names (for example “Herbstferien”).

1. Open Settings

   On the phone via your profile picture at the top left, on the computer in the sidebar.

2. Calendar → School holidays

   Under Choose country & region, tap your region.

3. Apply school holidays

   The holidays then appear in the calendar. You can tap any of them to edit or delete it.

4. Public holidays too

   Under Public holidays, choose your region and tap Apply region.

School holidays in other cantons

Aargau · Appenzell Ausserrhoden · Appenzell Innerrhoden · Basel-Landschaft · Basel-Stadt · Bern · Fribourg · Geneva · Glarus · Graubünden · Jura · Lucerne · Neuchâtel · Nidwalden · Obwalden · Schaffhausen · Schwyz · Solothurn · St. Gallen · Thurgau · Ticino · Uri · Valais · Zug · Zurich

All cantons at a glance

Source and date of the data

The data comes from the OpenHolidays API, the same source the app uses for school holidays and public holidays. Retrieved on 26 September 2026.

Contains information from the OpenHolidays API, which is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. The calendar files on this page are also available under the ODbL 1.0. The changes we make to the data are described in the licence notices (in German).

School holidays are set by the cantons and their municipalities. The EDK (Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education) publishes an official overview of all cantons, in German and French.