Spain - non-university

Beginning of the academic year: 1 September 2013

Teaching activities and holiday periods: Between mid-September and the beginning of October
From the beginning of the teaching activity to June

Christmas: 2 weeks between 23 December 2013 and 7 January 2014.
Easter: About 10 days between the third and fourth week of April2014.
Summer: 13/16 weeks between mid-June and beginning/mid-September or the beginning of October.
Public Holidays: 12 (some of them common throughout the whole country and some specific of the different Autonomous Communities)

Examinations: There are generally 3 periods of examinations: before Christmas holidays, before Easter holidays and before summer holidays.
Schools are free to fix examination dates within those periods.

End of the academic year: 30 June 2013