{"id":881207,"date":"2026-10-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=881207"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:46:12","slug":"here-is-the-school-calendar-for-2027-and-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/education\/881207\/here-is-the-school-calendar-for-2027-and-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is the school calendar for 2027 and 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has published the 2028 school calendar, which includes three additional school days compared to the 2027 calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2027, there will be 197 school days across all four terms, while 2028 will have 200 school days across 43 weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2028 calendar also features two additional public holidays, both in the second term between 28 March and 14 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2027, the school terms will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Term 1:<\/strong> 13 January \u2013 19 March.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 2:<\/strong> 06 April \u2013 25 June.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 3:<\/strong> 20 July \u2013 22 September.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 4:<\/strong> 05 October \u2013 08 December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For 2027, there will be 3 public holidays plus an additional special school holiday on 26 April, the day before Freedom Day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2028, there will be five public holidays, plus an extra special school holiday on 28 April, the day after Freedom Day, to create a long weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term dates for 2028 will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Term 1:<\/strong> 12 January &#8211; 17 March.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 2:<\/strong> 28 March \u2013 14 June.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 3:<\/strong> 11 July \u2013 22 September.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Term 4:<\/strong> 03 October \u2013 06 December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While the Department of Education previously had separate school calendars for coastal and inland schools, this has been scrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The published school calendars apply to all government schools in South Africa, while private schools have more freedom in setting their own term dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A breakdown of the 2027 and 2028 school years is shown below, along with the full calendars:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2027 School year breakdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Term dates<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of weeks<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of public holidays<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of school days<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>(11)13 January \u2013 19 March<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48 (50)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>06 April \u2013 25 June<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">12<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2 + 1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">56<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20 July \u2013 22 September<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">46<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>05 October \u2013 08(10) December<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">47 (49)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">42<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">3 + 1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">197 (201)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Numbers in brackets include administrative days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2028 school year breakdown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Term dates<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of weeks<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of public holidays<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Number of school days<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>(10) 12 January &#8211; 17 March<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">48 (50)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>28 March \u2013 14 June<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">12<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">4 + 1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">52<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11 July \u2013 22 September<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">11<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">53<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>03 October \u2013 06 (08) December<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">10<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">47 (49)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">43<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">5 + 1<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">200 (204)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Numbers in brackets include administrative days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2027 school year calendar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Public-School-Calendar-2027.pdf width=\"100%\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2028 school year calendar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2028-school-calendar.pdf width=\"100%\" height=\"600\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the term dates and public holidays for the 2027 and 2028 school years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":865045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2113602849909149995","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2246506482836417","_sma_instagram_post_id":"18136725346640406","_sma_x_attempts":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26526],"tags":[9335,20658,26929],"class_list":["post-881207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-department-of-education","tag-public-holidays","tag-school-terms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881207"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881244,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881207\/revisions\/881244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}