Date | Weekday | Name | Type | Details |
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Jan 1 | Monday | New Year's Day | National Holiday | |
Jan 6 | Saturday | Epiphany | Observance, Christian | NI Lower Saxony , SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Jan 6 | Saturday | Epiphany | Common Local Holiday | BW Baden-Württemberg , BY Bavaria , ST Saxony-Anhalt |
Jan 22 | Monday | Franco-German Day | Observance | |
Jan 27 | Saturday | Remembrance Day for the Victims of National Socialism | Observance | |
Feb 12 | Monday | Shrove Monday | Observance | |
Feb 13 | Tuesday | Carnival Tuesday | Observance | |
Feb 14 | Wednesday | Carnival / Ash Wednesday | Quiet Day | |
Feb 14 | Wednesday | Valentine's Day | Observance | |
Feb 16 | Friday | Hizir Fast | Observance | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Mar 8 | Friday | International Women's Day | Observance | All except BE Berlin , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Mar 8 | Friday | International Women's Day | Common Local Holiday | BE Berlin , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Mar 17 | Sunday | St. Patrick's Day | Observance, Christian | |
Mar 18 | Monday | Anniversary of the March Revolution | Observance | BE Berlin |
Mar 20 | Wednesday | March Equinox | Season | |
Mar 21 | Thursday | Alevitic New Year | Observance | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Mar 24 | Sunday | Palm Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Mar 28 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Mar 28 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | Observance, Christian | All except BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Mar 29 | Friday | Good Friday | National Holiday | |
Mar 30 | Saturday | Holy Saturday | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NI Lower Saxony , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Mar 31 | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Common Local Holiday | BB Brandenburg |
Mar 31 | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Observance, Christian | All except BB Brandenburg |
Mar 31 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time starts | Clock Change/Daylight Saving Time | |
Apr 1 | Monday | Easter Monday | National Holiday | |
Apr 10 | Wednesday | Eid al-Fitr | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Apr 23 | Tuesday | German Beer Day | Observance | |
Apr 23 | Tuesday | First Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 24 | Wednesday | Second Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 25 | Thursday | Girls' Day / Boys' Day | Observance | |
Apr 28 | Sunday | Sixth Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 29 | Monday | Seventh Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 30 | Tuesday | Walpurgis Night | Observance | |
May 1 | Wednesday | May Day | National Holiday | |
May 5 | Sunday | Europe Day (Council of Europe) | Observance | |
May 8 | Wednesday | Anniversary of the End of World War II | Observance | BE Berlin , BB Brandenburg , HB Bremen , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , TH Thuringia |
May 9 | Thursday | Father's Day | Observance | |
May 9 | Thursday | Ascension Day | National Holiday | |
May 9 | Thursday | Europe Day (European Union) | Observance | |
May 12 | Sunday | Mother's Day | Observance | |
May 19 | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Common Local Holiday | BB Brandenburg |
May 19 | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Observance, Christian | All except BB Brandenburg |
May 20 | Monday | Whit Monday | National Holiday | |
May 23 | Thursday | Constitution Day | Observance | |
May 30 | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Common Local Holiday | BW Baden-Württemberg , BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland , SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Jun 1 | Saturday | International Children's Day | Observance | |
Jun 3 | Monday | European Bicycle Day | Observance | |
Jun 12 | Wednesday | First Day of Shavuot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Jun 13 | Thursday | Second Day of Shavuot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Jun 16 | Sunday | Car-free Sunday | Observance | |
Jun 17 | Monday | Remembrance of the Victims of SED Injustice | Observance | BE Berlin , TH Thuringia |
Jun 17 | Monday | Eid al-Adha | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Jun 20 | Thursday | June Solstice | Season | |
Jun 24 | Monday | St. John | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Jun 29 | Saturday | Architecture Day | Observance | |
Jun 29 | Saturday | St Peter and Paul | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Jul 17 | Wednesday | Ashura | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Aug 8 | Thursday | Peace Festival in Augsburg | Local Holiday | BY Bavaria |
Aug 15 | Thursday | Assumption Day | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Aug 15 | Thursday | Assumption Day | Common Local Holiday | BY Bavaria , SL Saarland |
Sep 1 | Sunday | Anti War Day | Observance | |
Sep 8 | Sunday | European Heritage Days | Observance | |
Sep 14 | Saturday | German Language Day | Observance | |
Sep 20 | Friday | German World Children's Day | Observance | |
Sep 20 | Friday | German World Children's Day | Common Local Holiday | TH Thuringia |
Sep 22 | Sunday | September Equinox | Season | |
Oct 3 | Thursday | Rosh Hashana | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Oct 3 | Thursday | Day of German Unity | National Holiday | |
Oct 4 | Friday | Second Day of Rosh Hashana | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Oct 5 | Saturday | German Food Bank Day | Observance | |
Oct 6 | Sunday | Harvest Festival | Observance | |
Oct 12 | Saturday | Yom Kippur | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Oct 13 | Sunday | Grandparents' Day | Observance | BY Bavaria |
Oct 17 | Thursday | First Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Oct 18 | Friday | Second Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Oct 22 | Tuesday | Sixth Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria |
Oct 23 | Wednesday | Seventh Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria |
Oct 24 | Thursday | Shemini Atzeret | Observance, Hebrew | HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Oct 25 | Friday | Simchat Torah | Observance, Hebrew | HB Bremen |
Oct 27 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time ends | Clock Change/Daylight Saving Time | |
Oct 30 | Wednesday | World Thrift Day | Observance | |
Oct 31 | Thursday | Reformation Day | Observance, Christian | HB Bremen , BW Baden-Württemberg |
Oct 31 | Thursday | Reformation Day | Common Local Holiday | BB Brandenburg , HB Bremen , HH Hamburg , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , NI Lower Saxony , SH Schleswig-Holstein , SN Saxony , ST Saxony-Anhalt , TH Thuringia |
Oct 31 | Thursday | Halloween | Observance | |
Nov 1 | Friday | All Saints' Day | Observance, Christian | HB Bremen , NI Lower Saxony , SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Nov 1 | Friday | All Saints' Day | Public Holiday, Quiet Day | BW Baden-Württemberg , BY Bavaria , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Nov 2 | Saturday | All Souls' Day | Quiet Day | NI Lower Saxony |
Nov 9 | Saturday | Night of Broken Glass Remembrance Day | Observance | |
Nov 9 | Saturday | 9th of November | Observance | BE Berlin |
Nov 9 | Saturday | Fall of the Berlin Wall | Observance | |
Nov 11 | Monday | St. Martin's Day | Observance, Christian | |
Nov 17 | Sunday | National Day of Mourning | Quiet Day | |
Nov 20 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Observance, Christian | BW Baden-Württemberg , HE Hesse , NI Lower Saxony , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , TH Thuringia |
Nov 20 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Common Local Holiday | SN Saxony |
Nov 20 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , SL Saarland , SN Saxony |
Nov 24 | Sunday | Sunday of the Dead | Quiet Day | |
Dec 1 | Sunday | First Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 6 | Friday | Saint Nicholas Day | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 8 | Sunday | Second Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 8 | Sunday | Feast of the Immaculate Conception | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Dec 15 | Sunday | Third Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 19 | Thursday | Remembrance Day for Roma and Sinti Killed By Genocide | Observance | |
Dec 21 | Saturday | December Solstice | Season | |
Dec 22 | Sunday | Fourth Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 24 | Tuesday | Christmas Eve | Quiet Day | |
Dec 25 | Wednesday | Christmas Day | National Holiday | |
Dec 26 | Thursday | Boxing Day | National Holiday | |
Dec 31 | Tuesday | New Year's Eve | Bank Holiday | |