KwaZulu-Natal Spring School Holidays, 24 September to 5 October 2026

Term 3 for KwaZulu-Natal public schools ends on 23 September 2026, and Term 4 begins on 6 October 2026, on the Department of Basic Education’s national gazetted school calendar. That gives a spring school-holiday window running 24 September to 5 October 2026, which opens directly on the Heritage Day public holiday (24 September) and the long weekend around it.

For Umdloti, this is one of the more reliable visitor-traffic bumps of the year outside the December peak. A public holiday on the first day of a two-week school break brings both the long-weekend crowd and family holidaymakers staying on into the following week. Expect busier beaches, restaurants and parking than a normal late-September weekend, and book accommodation ahead if you are planning a visit in this window.

This calendar applies nationally, so the same holiday dates hold for visitors travelling from Gauteng and elsewhere. See Heritage Day long weekend for the public-holiday-specific detail and /whats-on for the fuller month-by-month picture.