Abstract: We determine which connected surfaces can be partitioned into topological circles. There are exactly seven such surfaces up to homeomorphism: those of finite type, of Euler characteristic zero, and with compact boundary components. As a byproduct, we get that any circle decomposition of a surface is upper semicontinuous.
It is shown that there are exactly seven connected, metrisable surfaces which may be partitioned into circles: torus, Klein bottle, closed annulus, half open annulus, open annulus, closed Möbius band and open Möbius band. Any such partition (decomposition) is upper semicontinuous.
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