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School holidays

GET/v1/holidays/school

School holidays for France and the Netherlands by region and zone, each with its first and last day off, from today to a year on unless a range is given.

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Parameters

Name	Type	Description
countryoptional	string query	One or more ISO codes, comma separated e.g. CL,BA,AT
regionoptional	string query	A region or zone by name, as it comes back in region or zone e.g. midden
fromoptional	period query	First period to return e.g. 2025-01
tooptional	period query	Last period to return e.g. 2026-08
limitoptional	integer query	Rows per page, 1 to 1000 e.g. 100

Request

# School holidays by region
curl "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/school?country=NL&from=2027-02" \
  -H "X-API-Key: $TOURISM_API_KEY"

const res = await fetch("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/school?country=NL&from=2027-02", {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.TOURISM_API_KEY }
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Tourism API ${res.status}`);
const { meta, data } = await res.json();
console.log(meta.data_as_of, data);

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/school?country=NL&from=2027-02",
    headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["TOURISM_API_KEY"]},
    timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
body = r.json()
print(body["meta"]["data_as_of"], body["data"])

$ch = curl_init("https://api.tourismapi.com/v1/holidays/school?country=NL&from=2027-02");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     => ["X-API-Key: " . getenv("TOURISM_API_KEY")],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
print_r($body["data"]);

Your API key

Ready

Example response

{
    "meta": {
        "request_id": "req_99773e4f74",
        "data_as_of": "2026-11-07T04:51:48Z",
        "count": 11,
        "countries_held": [
            "AT",
            "DE",
            "ES",
            "FR",
            "IT",
            "NL"
        ],
        "from": "2027-02-01",
        "to": "2028-02-01",
        "note": "first_day and last_day are both days off, in local dates. A holiday is returned when any of its days falls in the range."
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "country": "NL",
            "region": "zuid",
            "zone": null,
            "name": "Voorjaarsvakantie",
            "name_en": "Spring holidays",
            "school_year": "2026-2027",
            "first_day": "2027-02-13",
            "last_day": "2027-02-21",
            "days": 9
        },
        {
            "country": "NL",
            "region": "midden",
            "zone": null,
            "name": "Voorjaarsvakantie",
            "name_en": "Spring holidays",
            "school_year": "2026-2027",
            "first_day": "2027-02-20",
            "last_day": "2027-02-28",
            "days": 9
        },
        {
            "country": "NL",
            "region": "noord",
            "zone": null,
            "name": "Voorjaarsvakantie",
            "name_en": "Spring holidays",
            "school_year": "2026-2027",
            "first_day": "2027-02-20",
            "last_day": "2027-02-28",
            "days": 9
        }
    ]
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Example
country	string	NL
region	string	zuid
zone	null	null
name	string	Voorjaarsvakantie
name_en	string	Spring holidays
school_year	string	2026-2027
first_day	string	2027-02-13
last_day	string	2027-02-21
days	number	9