Fresno Unified Calendar 2026-27: Winter Break Dec. 21 to Jan. 8, Last Day June 10

Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) students are off Monday, Nov. 23 to Friday, Nov. 27, 2026 for Thanksgiving, from Monday, Dec. 21, 2026 to Friday, Jan. 8, 2027 for winter break, and from Monday, March 22 to Monday, March 29, 2027 for spring break, according to the “Academic Calendar 2026 – 2027” PDF linked from the district’s “Academic Calendar” page. School ends Thursday, June 10, 2027.

The PDF says the board approved it on Feb. 25, 2026 and that it was revised and approved on March 11, 2026. This story adds our arithmetic from the district’s dates: breaks at a glance with weekdays off, every student day off, student days by month, the stretches between days off, and how Fresno compares with Los Angeles and San Diego. A printable school-year calendar is at the bottom of the page.

Fresno Unified breaks at a glance

Weekday counts are our arithmetic from the district’s dates. The district prints no return days, so those are our reading: the next weekday the calendar does not list as off.

Break	District’s dates	Weekdays off	Students return (our reading)
Thanksgiving	Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	5	Mon., Nov. 30, 2026
Winter Break	Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 8, 2027	15	Mon., Jan. 11, 2027
Spring Break	Mon., March 22 to Mon., March 29, 2027	6	Tue., March 30, 2027

Winter break spans three school weeks and includes Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. Spring break is Monday to the next Monday, so students are out 10 days in a row, from Saturday, March 20 through Monday, March 29. Our winter break 2026 roundup compares other districts, and the December 2026 printable calendar shows the three weeks.

Every Fresno Unified student day off in 2026-27

The calendar’s legend says red dates are days school is not in session. Dates before today, Nov. 5, 2026, are marked past.

Date	What the district lists
Wed., Aug. 12, 2026 (past)	District buyback day, non-student
Thu.-Fri., Aug. 13-14, 2026 (past)	Teacher institute days, non-student
Mon., Aug. 17, 2026 (past)	School begins
Mon., Sept. 7, 2026 (past)	Labor Day
Mon., Oct. 12, 2026 (past)	District buyback day, non-student
Wed., Nov. 11, 2026	Veteran’s Day
Mon.-Fri., Nov. 23-27, 2026	Thanksgiving
Mon., Dec. 21, 2026 to Fri., Jan. 8, 2027	Winter Break
Mon., Jan. 18, 2027	M.L. King, Jr. Day
Mon., Feb. 8, 2027	Lincoln’s Birthday, listed as “Feb. 12 (Observed Feb. 8, 2027)”
Mon., Feb. 15, 2027	Presidents’ Day
Mon., March 8, 2027	District buyback day, non-student
Mon., March 22 to Mon., March 29, 2027	Spring Break
Mon., May 31, 2027	Memorial Day
Thu., June 10, 2027	School ends

The district counts five non-student days: the three in August and the two buyback days on Oct. 12 and March 8. Elementary parent conferences ran Oct. 26-30, 2026, and are past. The calendar’s key also names early release days, but we could not confirm their dates, so none are listed here.

How many Fresno Unified student days fall in each month?

Counting every weekday between Aug. 17, 2026 and June 10, 2027, December has the most weekdays off, 9, because winter break takes 9 of its weekdays (Dec. 21-25 and Dec. 28-31). March has 7 and November has 6. In all, 34 weekdays are off and 180 are student days, the number the district prints.

Month	Weekdays off	Student days
August 2026 (from Aug. 17)	0	11
September 2026	1	21
October 2026	1	21
November 2026	6	15
December 2026	9	14
January 2027	7	14
February 2027	2	18
March 2027	7	16
April 2027	0	22
May 2027	1	20
June 2027 (to June 10)	0	8
Total	34	180

January also has 7: Jan. 1 and Jan. 4-8 from winter break, plus Jan. 18. The March 2027 printable calendar shows the March 8 buyback day and spring break.

Our count also matches the district’s printed figures. The calendar prints reporting periods that end Oct. 16 (43 days), Dec. 18 (39 days), March 19 (46 days) and June 10 (52 days). Counting the student days between those dates gives 43, 39, 46 and 52. The first semester ends Dec. 18 at 82 days, and the second ends June 10 at 98.

How long are the stretches between Fresno Unified days off?

These are weekdays of school between the district’s listed days off. The shortest are the four weekdays of Feb. 9-12 and the five of Jan. 11-15.

Stretch	Dates	Student days
Start to Labor Day	Aug. 17 to Sept. 4, 2026	15
Labor Day to Oct. 12	Sept. 8 to Oct. 9, 2026	24
Oct. 12 to Veterans Day	Oct. 13 to Nov. 10, 2026	21
Veterans Day to Thanksgiving	Nov. 12 to Nov. 20, 2026	7
Thanksgiving to winter break	Nov. 30 to Dec. 18, 2026	15
Winter break to M.L. King Day	Jan. 11 to Jan. 15, 2027	5
M.L. King Day to Feb. 8	Jan. 19 to Feb. 5, 2027	14
Feb. 8 to Presidents’ Day	Feb. 9 to Feb. 12, 2027	4
Presidents’ Day to March 8	Feb. 16 to March 5, 2027	14
March 8 to spring break	March 9 to March 19, 2027	9
Spring break to Memorial Day	March 30 to May 28, 2027	44
Memorial Day to last day	June 1 to June 10, 2027	8
Total		180

The longest run with no day off is March 30 to May 28, 44 weekdays. It overlaps the state testing window, which the calendar lists as April 13 to June 10.

Does Fresno Unified close for Cesar Chavez Day?

The calendar does not list Cesar Chavez Day, Wednesday, March 31, 2027, as a holiday, and it shows no day off that day. The district’s vacation list names Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving, Winter Break, M.L. King, Jr. Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, Presidents’ Day, Spring Break and Memorial Day for the school year. Our count supports the reading: the 180 student days work out only when March 31 is a school day. Ask the district if you need to confirm it.

How does the Fresno Unified calendar compare with Los Angeles and San Diego?

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) dates come from our LAUSD calendar story, which cites the district’s own 2026-27 instructional calendar. San Diego dates come from the district’s “2026-27 Academic Calendar,” adopted June 24, 2025, and our San Diego Unified calendar story.

	Fresno Unified	Los Angeles Unified	San Diego Unified
First day	Mon., Aug. 17, 2026	Wed., Aug. 12, 2026	Mon., Aug. 10, 2026
Thanksgiving	Nov. 23-27	Nov. 23-27	Nov. 23-27
Winter break	Dec. 21 to Jan. 8	Dec. 21 to Jan. 8	Dec. 21 to Jan. 4
Winter weekdays off (our count)	15	15	11
Spring break	March 22-29	March 22-26	March 29 to April 2
Last day	Thu., June 10, 2027	Fri., June 4, 2027	Wed., May 26, 2027

Fresno starts latest and ends latest of the three: its last day is 6 days after Los Angeles’s and 15 days after San Diego’s. Its winter break matches Los Angeles’s dates and runs four weekdays longer than San Diego’s. San Diego’s spring week starts a week after the Fresno and Los Angeles weeks. Fresno’s spring break is the only one of the three with six weekdays.

Print the Fresno Unified school-year calendar

The printable puts the first and last day, the three breaks, the holidays and the non-student days on an 11-month sheet, with space to fill in conferences. It uses only the district’s dates and lists what the district does not say. The district’s page links its own calendar, and our printable school-year calendar has a blank layout.