School holidays, public holidays and birthdays in your family calendar

From 1024 pixels wide, on a tablet in landscape or on a computer, school holidays run across their days in the month as a band, with their name and their last day. From 1280 pixels the week shows them the same way. On narrower screens the holiday days in the month are striped, and the list for the chosen day names the holidays.

Public holidays have their own symbol and say what kind they are: “Public holiday” or “Observed regionally or a day off school”, such as Berchtoldstag in Zurich or Leopoldi-Tag in Vienna. The names of holidays appear in the language you have chosen in the app; where there is no translation, in German, as with these two.

The family display on the kitchen tablet shows them as well, in the cards for today, tomorrow and the day after.

The school holidays come from the OpenHolidays API, an open data collection under the ODbL licence, as of 12 October 2026. Where the source is wrong or something is missing, Familienplaner corrects the data by hand, following the official page. It works out the public holidays itself, year by year.

The settings show, below the switch, up to which date the holidays for your region are stored. For Germany the data reaches into summer 2030, for Austria to early 2029. In Switzerland it depends on the canton: Geneva up to 2030, Vaud, Fribourg, Valais and Ticino so far only to early 2027.

In Austria, holidays that are not yet final are marked “provisional”. In Switzerland, cantons and often municipalities set the holidays: if a band does not apply to every school, it says whom it applies to, or “depends on the school or municipality”, as in Graubünden. The Zurich holidays are marked “recommended, schools may differ”.

Family members’ birthdays come from their date of birth; any others you add once. After that they appear in the calendar every year, under “Coming up” and on the family display, with the age if the year is known: “Grandma turns 70”.

Anyone born on 29 February celebrates on 28 February in years without a leap day. The calendar link for Google, Apple or Outlook includes the birthdays too, there without the year of birth.

If your region has school holidays that apply to all schools, a repeating event can skip them: on the event, choose the rule under “Repeat” and then “Not during school holidays”. Tuesday training then disappears during the autumn holidays and is back afterwards.

Where holidays apply only to some municipalities or types of school, the series still takes place. After the last known holiday it carries on without a break until new data arrives.