May half term 2027
Also called Whitsun, spring bank half term, summer half term.
For most councils
31 May – 4 June 2027
Monday 31 May to Friday 4 June · 5 school days
132 of 145 councils in England and Wales (91%) take these dates. The other 13 are listed below.
May half term 2027 by council
Grouped by the dates each council takes, most common first. Every council links to its own year.
31 May – 4 June 2027
132 councils · 5 school days- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bexley
- Birmingham
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blaenau Gwent *
- Bolton
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Bracknell Forest
- Bradford
- Brent
- Bridgend
- Bristol, City of
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Cambridgeshire
- Camden
- Cardiff
- Cheshire East
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Conwy *
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Coventry
- Croydon
- Cumberland
- Darlington
- Denbighshire
- Derby
- Doncaster
- Dudley
- Ealing
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Enfield
- Gloucestershire
- Greenwich
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Hampshire
- Haringey
- Harrow
- Hartlepool
- Havering
- Herefordshire, County of
- Hertfordshire
- Hillingdon
- Hounslow
- Isle of Wight
- Islington
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Kent
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Kingston upon Thames
- Kirklees
- Knowsley
- Lambeth
- Lancashire
- Leeds
- Leicestershire
- Lewisham
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Medway
- Merton
- Middlesbrough
- Milton Keynes
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newham
- Norfolk
- North Somerset
- Northumberland
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- Peterborough
- Plymouth
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Redbridge
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Richmond upon Thames
- Rochdale
- Sandwell
- Sefton
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Slough
- Solihull
- Somerset
- South Gloucestershire
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- Southwark
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire
- Stockport
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Suffolk
- Sunderland
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Swindon
- Tameside
- Telford and Wrekin
- Thurrock
- Torbay
- Tower Hamlets
- Trafford
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Waltham Forest
- Wandsworth
- Warrington
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
- West Northamptonshire
- West Sussex
- Westminster
- Wigan
- Wiltshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wirral
- Wokingham
- Wolverhampton
- Worcestershire
- York
1–4 June 2027
8 councils · 4 school days29 May – 6 June 2027
4 councils · 5 school days28 May – 7 June 2027
1 council · 7 school days* Worked out from the gap between terms, because the council publishes term dates rather than holiday dates.
Questions
- When is May half term 2027?
- For most councils in England and Wales, May half term 2027 runs from Monday, 31 May 2027 to Friday, 4 June 2027 - 132 of 145 councils. The earliest council starts on 28 May 2027 and the latest finishes on 7 June 2027.
- How long is May half term 2027?
- 5 school days for most councils. A half term is one week, though a few councils take two.
- Do all councils have the same May half term?
- No. 4 different sets of dates are in use for May half term 2027. 132 councils take 31 May – 4 June 2027; the next most common is 1–4 June 2027, taken by 8. Academies and free schools can set their own dates again, so check your school's page.