School holiday overlap detector

To check whether a trip falls in the school holidays, compare your date range against the term calendar and count how many of your days land inside a school holiday. This detector uses representative England 2026 school-holiday dates, then tells you which holidays your range touches and splits your days into school-holiday days and term-time days. It is a planning guide: term dates vary by local authority and academy trust, so always confirm against your own school or council calendar before booking, and remember the dates change every year.

Enter the start and end of a planned trip or a parent's leave window to see whether it falls in term time or the holidays, and by how many days.

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How this is worked out

The tool compares your date range against the England 2026 school-holiday dates and counts how many days of your range fall in a school holiday versus term time.

a day is a "holiday day" if it falls inside any school-holiday range
overlap days = days in your range that are also school-holiday days
term-time days = the rest of your range
all ranges are inclusive of the first and last day

The term dates here are representative England dates for 2026 and vary by local authority and academy trust, so they are a planning guide only. Always confirm against your own school or council calendar before booking. These dates need refreshing each year.

Planning leave around bank holidays too? Use the long-weekend maximiser or see the 2026 UK bank holidays.

Representative England 2026 term dates, which vary by council and academy and change each year. Confirm with your school before booking.