Tamil Nadu School Holiday In December 2025: Schools, Colleges To Be Shut For 15 Days

December has arrived, and students across Tamil Nadu are already gearing up for what promises to be a fun-filled month. With half-yearly exams, festivals, and weekends all lining up perfectly, school students are set to enjoy at least 15 days of holidays in the last month of 2024. Yes, you read that right - it's going to be a breezy, relaxing end to the year for students, and honestly, teachers too.

Let's break it down.

The half-yearly exams are scheduled between December 10 and December 23. Once students wrap up their exams, they will walk straight into the warm and festive Christmas holidays. This year, they will get eight days off after the exams, providing some much-needed downtime after the exam stress.

But the holiday calendar doesn't stop there.

Between December 1 and December 23, students also get three weekends:

• December 6-7
• December 13-14
• December 20-21

Put them all together, the festive break, the exam relief break, and the weekends, and the holiday total easily adds up to 15 days. A well-deserved breather for students and a bonus break for teachers before gearing up for the new year's academic rush.

Meanwhile, the state is also celebrating one of its grandest festivals - Karthigai Deepam. The iconic festivities at the Annamalaiyar Temple in Tiruvannamalai are underway with immense devotional fervour. The seventh day of the festival falls tomorrow. The spotlight of the celebrations is always the lighting of the Bharani Deepam at 4 am on December 3, followed by the magnificent Mahadeepam on the 2,668-feet high Annamalai hill at 6 pm the same day. The event draws lakhs of devotees from across the state.

In view of these celebrations, a local holiday has been declared for schools and colleges in Tiruvannamalai district on December 3. To compensate for this, Saturday, December 13, has been declared a working day.

A similar arrangement has been made in Kanyakumari district, where a local holiday has been announced on December 3 for the Kottar Peralaya festival. To balance out the break, December 6 will be a working day for government offices and educational institutions in the district.

With festivals, exam breaks, and long-awaited weekends all lined up, December is truly shaping up to be a month of joy, lights, and a whole lot of rest for students across the state.