School holidays Linköping 2026

When are the school breaks in Linköping? Here are the sports, Easter, autumn and Christmas breaks for 2026.

Dates are taken from each municipality's official school calendar and checked for new breaks every ten days. Independent schools may have other dates, so always check with your school.

School holidays Linköping 2026
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Winter sports break – Linköpings kommun – Läsårstider 2025/2026 (PDF)
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Easter break – Linköpings kommun – Läsårstider 2025/2026 (PDF)
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Autumn break – Linköpings kommun – Lov och läsårstider för grundskola
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Christmas break – Linköpings kommun – Lov och läsårstider för grundskola
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The Christmas break is listed under the year it starts.

Calendar 2026 with public holidaysWeek numbers, public holidays, bridge days and paydays for the whole year.

About the school breaks in Linköping 2026

The sportlov, or winter sports break, takes place during week 8, starting Monday February 16 and ending Friday February 20, 2026. This is a five-day break for students in the municipality. Soon after, the påsklov, or Easter break, occurs in week 15, lasting four days from Tuesday April 7 to Friday April 10.

In the autumn, students are off during week 44, between Monday October 26 and Friday October 30. The jullov, or Christmas break, is the longest interval of the year, spanning 17 calendar days from Monday December 21, 2026, through Wednesday January 6, 2027. These dates are based on the official academic calendar for Linköping primary schools, but please verify with your child's specific school, as individual institutions may have their own inset days or local variations.

About Linköping

Linköping is in Östergötland and best known for the aircraft industry around Saab and for Linköping University. The municipality has city schools as well as small rural ones, but the same break dates apply to every municipal compulsory school. On days off, the Gamla Linköping open-air museum and the Swedish Air Force Museum are popular with families.

How we collect and check the dates

Where do the dates come from?

All dates come from each municipality's own page about school term dates for compulsory school. We do not copy other sites' lists or reuse earlier years. Below the table there is a link to the source, so you can see where the date is written.

How are the dates checked?

When a break is added, the line of text on the municipality's page that the date is based on is saved. A date is only published if that line appears word for word on the municipality's page, under the right term and year. If the municipality only gives a week number, such as week 44, we convert it to Monday–Friday of that week. If there is no separate Christmas break listed, it is worked out from the last day of the autumn term and the first day of the spring term. Such dates are marked as calculated.

How often is the page updated?

An automatic check goes through the municipalities' pages every ten days and looks for breaks that are still missing. Breaks that are already over are not looked for. Dates already on the page are not overwritten automatically. If a municipality changes a break afterwards, we correct it by hand.

When do municipalities publish new term dates?

Most municipalities decide their term dates one to two years ahead, often in spring. So the next school year may be missing for a while for some municipalities. If no date is shown for a break, the municipality has not published it yet, or we have not been able to confirm it.

Why do municipalities have different breaks?

Each municipality decides its own breaks. The sports break is spread between week 7 and week 10 depending on where in Sweden you live, partly so the ski resorts are not full the same week. The autumn break is almost always week 44, and the Easter break is around Easter or the week after.

How many school days are in a school year?

According to the Swedish School Ordinance, the school year has at least 178 school days and 12 days off. It starts in August and ends in June. Days off that are not part of the main breaks are often single days, for example around Ascension Day.

Do the dates apply to independent schools and upper secondary?

The dates apply to the municipality's compulsory schools. Independent schools set their own term dates and may have other breaks. Upper secondary schools often follow the same breaks, but not always. Study days, when pupils are off but teachers work, are set by each school and are not listed here.

Found an error?

Get in touch through the contact page and tell us which municipality and break it concerns. We check against the municipality's page and correct it as soon as we can. Contact us