Scholiday
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Why Scholiday exists

Europe takes holidays. You take the gaps.

School calendars decide who is at the park, who is in the hotel, and who is paying August prices in May. Put them on one timeline. Go when the bars don’t — or meet when they do.

Open the planner Both ends of the band
  • 34 school calendars, 128 regions
  • School and public holidays
  • Free, no account

Reading the timeline

One timeline. Two opposite questions.

It started with two honest reasons, neither of them noble. Then people began reading the chart backwards.

The gap

The week nobody is off

« Theme parks do not invent the queue. They notice when the neighbouring schools empty. »

« Hotels do not invent high season in a meeting. They notice when half the continent clocks off together. »

Both sentences describe the same week: the one where the bars refuse to stack. Fewer regions off means shorter queues and softer prices — the continent is not moving all at once. And that same emptiness answers a question that has nothing to do with a holiday: if nobody is away, everybody can come.

  • Quieter parks — Pick the park, then the school regions around it.
  • Cheaper weeks — The quiet week is usually hiding between two loud ones.
  • International events — A conference, an offsite, a school exchange, a tournament. Select the countries your guests travel from, not the one you are going to — and watch the public holidays, because a single national day deletes a working Tuesday.

Fewer regions on holiday → fewer visitors, kinder rates, and a room full of people who could actually travel. On the timeline you can overlay a park’s crowd forecast — still a glimpse, not a promise.

Everyone off

The week everyone is off

« Nobody agrees on a shared week. Two school systems occasionally agree for you. »

Read the same chart backwards and the pile-up stops being the enemy. A parent in Luxembourg with cousins in Trier, a couple with a border between them, grandparents a country away: you are not hunting the gap any more, you are hunting the overlap. The darkest band on the timeline is the one week the whole family is free at once.

  • Two school systems — Stack both regions and look for the week the bars agree.
  • Friends abroad — One shared week a year, found rather than negotiated.
  • What to avoid — The same dark band is the week an event planner has to cross out.

More regions off around you → higher prices and fuller trains, but the only week the people you care about are all free. Pick your end of the band.

How it works

Stack the calendars. Then pick your week.

  1. 01

    Say where you’re going

    Type a town, an island, a lake, a theme park — we add the country and region it sits in. Or pick countries and regions yourself: German states, French zones, Belgian communities. A spreadsheet of places imports as CSV.

  2. 02

    See the pile-up

    School holidays and public holidays on one timeline, with a strip above it counting how many of your places are off each day. Mint is nobody; the darker the violet, the more are away.

  3. 03

    Take the best window

    Best windows ranks the stretches under the chart. Say how many days you need, then pick your end: Everyone off for the week you all share, Fewest off for the quiet one. Click a window and the timeline jumps to it.

Behind the timeline

School and public holidays, side by side.

44 European countries, 34 of them with school calendars, regions included, in English, French and German. No tickets, no prices — just the calendars that quietly run the continent. Subscribe once and your calendar keeps re-reading them, so the dates follow the school year as it is published.

Open the planner

Browse country calendars