Spain, the country with the most vacation days

Spanish students lead the ranking of holidays of summer, according to a report from the travel agency Expedia collected by IMF Business School with a total of 3 months, while the Germans are the least school holidays they have, since they only total a total of 6 weeks.

A few days of vacation also enjoy other European countries such as Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands and Liechtenstein, although in some cases, this shortage of Holidays It is compensated with free days distributed throughout the course. This is what happens, for example in France, where there are 62 holidays that add to the summer holidays or in Turkey, where up to 19 days are considered during the course. On the contrary, in other countries such as Italy, students have a long summer and also one more month of holidays distributed throughout the school year.


Do children have too many vacations in summer?

Some agencies have expressed themselves in this regard and about the need to reorganize the school calendar. From the National Catholic Confederation of Parents and Parents of Students (Concapa), it states that "children lose the habit of study and parents find it very difficult to reconcile schedules, forcing an expense in camps and activities that mortgage even more to families right now. " In this same line, the Spanish Confederation of Associations of Parents of Students (Ceapa), has expressed "the need to address the debate on the school calendar, cutting the summer vacation and distributing the days throughout the course."


We parents also have more vacations

Spaniards, Germans, French and Danish have the most vacations, according to data from Vacation Deprivation 2014 conducted by the travel agency Expedia.es, with a total of 30 days, while European workers have an average of 28 vacation days a year. This figure is very significant, especially when compared to the workers of Asia Pacific and North America, who have 10 to 15 days of vacation per year. For example, Japanese people have 10 to 20 days of vacations while in China they only have 5 to 15 days, depending on seniority.

In Europe, the average number of vacation days per year is around 25 days, but it should also be noted that Spain also leads the ranking of countries where more hours are worked. The British have 26, the Italians 28 days, and 25 the Austrians, Germans, Norwegians and Swedes.


This report also reveals that Spain is one of the countries of the European Union that has more holidays per year spread over 14 days of festivity a year, of which 10 are national holidays, 2 regional festivities and 2 local festivals. They accompany Spain in this list of countries with more holidays to the year Greece, with a total of 12 holidays; France and Italy, with 11 days of celebration; Germany and Finland, with 10 days; Portugal with 9; United Kingdom, with 8; and Holland, with 7 holidays a year.

Marisol Nuevo Espín

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