Dates you need to know for planning your next family holiday, whether the cooler weather is here to stay, new EU banking rules, school stationery lists, and what electronic billing means for small businesses and freelancers in France.
As France heads back to work after the long summer of 2026, many people will already be planning their next holiday. From school holidays to public holidays, here’s how to maximise your time off.
How to plan your holidays – and take advantage of ‘pont’ possibilities – in France in 2026/27
Temperatures across most of France fell on Wednesday and for the first time since June no areas were on alert for extreme heat. So is this, at last, the end of the scorching – and deadly – summer of 2026?
Is France’s long summer of extreme heat finally over?
