School Calendar 2026–27: Full List of Holidays and Festivals (India)

Two searches spike on every school's website every year: admissions, and 'holiday list'. The first gets a page. The second is usually a photo of a notice board pinned to the announcements section, unreadable on a phone and gone by the next session. The live calendar above covers the full 2026–27 session — filter it, or jump to the plain-text reference table further down. Below that is how to turn this into a page that actually works on your own site.

How the Indian school year is structured

Most CBSE and private schools run the session from April to March, with the longest break in May–June and a shorter one around Diwali and again over winter. RBSE-affiliated Rajasthan government schools follow a similar shape but often resume for the second term in July. Festivals tied to the lunar calendar — Eid, Muharram and a few others — depend on moon sighting and are confirmed only close to the date, so treat those as provisional until your board or the state government issues the official notification.

Full reference table: every date, August 2026 – March 2027

Extended breaks Rajasthan schools typically follow

• Summer vacation — roughly mid-May to late June, the longest break of the session
• Diwali break — an extended break of a week or more built around the Dussehra-to-Diwali stretch in October–November
• Winter break — commonly December 25 to January 5

Exact start and end dates for these breaks are set by circular each year and vary between government (RBSE), CBSE and ICSE-affiliated schools, and even between individual schools within the same board. Treat the ranges above as planning guidance, not a substitute for your school's own notified dates.

Rajasthan-specific dates worth adding

Beyond the national list, Jaipur schools commonly note two Rajasthan-specific observances: Rajasthan Diwas on March 30, marking the formation of the state, and Gangaur, a major Rajasthani festival that begins the day after Holi and runs for about a fortnight — some schools give a half-day or optional holiday during the main procession days. Check with your school management on whether these are marked as full holidays, half-days or simply noted as local observances.

Why this belongs on your website, not just a WhatsApp forward

A parent deciding between three schools checks the calendar before they check anything else — it tells them how many working days their child gets, when exams fall, and whether the school runs a proper term structure. A calendar page also happens to be one of the most-linked, most-bookmarked pages on a school site, which is exactly the kind of page Google rewards with steady search traffic every single year it stays live.

What a calendar page needs to actually work

• Real text in a real table, not a scanned image or a photo of a printed circular — a scan cannot be searched, read by a screen reader, or found by Google
• One permanent URL you update in place each session, such as /calendar, rather than a new page every year that starts its SEO from zero
• A downloadable PDF as a bonus, never as the only option
• Exam dates and PTM dates kept separate from festival holidays, so parents can scan the one they came for
• Readable on a phone without pinch-zooming — most parents will open this from WhatsApp on a 6-inch screen

Keep the page, update the dates every session, and it compounds — the same URL keeps ranking, keeps getting linked from parent WhatsApp groups, and keeps taking pressure off the front office phone.