Date | Weekday | Name | Type | Details |
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Jan 1 | Thursday | New Year's Day | National Holiday | |
Jan 6 | Tuesday | Epiphany | Observance, Christian | NI Lower Saxony , SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Jan 6 | Tuesday | Epiphany | Common Local Holiday | BW Baden-Württemberg , BY Bavaria , ST Saxony-Anhalt |
Jan 22 | Thursday | Franco-German Day | Observance | |
Jan 27 | Tuesday | Remembrance Day for the Victims of National Socialism | Observance | |
Feb 14 | Saturday | Valentine's Day | Observance | |
Feb 16 | Monday | Shrove Monday | Observance | |
Feb 16 | Monday | Hizir Fast | Observance | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Feb 17 | Tuesday | Carnival Tuesday | Observance | |
Feb 18 | Wednesday | Carnival / Ash Wednesday | Quiet Day | |
Mar 8 | Sunday | International Women's Day | Observance | All except BE Berlin , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Mar 8 | Sunday | International Women's Day | Common Local Holiday | BE Berlin , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Mar 17 | Tuesday | St. Patrick's Day | Observance, Christian | |
Mar 18 | Wednesday | Anniversary of the March Revolution | Observance | BE Berlin |
Mar 20 | Friday | Eid al-Fitr | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Mar 20 | Friday | March Equinox | Season | |
Mar 21 | Saturday | Alevitic New Year | Observance | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Mar 29 | Sunday | Palm Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Mar 29 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time starts | Clock Change/Daylight Saving Time | |
Apr 2 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Apr 2 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | Observance, Christian | All except BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Apr 2 | Thursday | First Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 3 | Friday | Good Friday | National Holiday | |
Apr 3 | Friday | Second Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 4 | Saturday | Holy Saturday | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , HE Hesse , NI Lower Saxony , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Apr 5 | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Common Local Holiday | BB Brandenburg |
Apr 5 | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Observance, Christian | All except BB Brandenburg |
Apr 6 | Monday | Easter Monday | National Holiday | |
Apr 7 | Tuesday | Sixth Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 8 | Wednesday | Seventh Day of Passover | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Apr 23 | Thursday | German Beer Day | Observance | |
Apr 23 | Thursday | Girls' Day / Boys' Day | Observance | |
Apr 30 | Thursday | Walpurgis Night | Observance | |
May 1 | Friday | May Day | National Holiday | |
May 5 | Tuesday | Europe Day (Council of Europe) | Observance | |
May 8 | Friday | Anniversary of the End of World War II | Observance | BE Berlin , BB Brandenburg , HB Bremen , MV Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , TH Thuringia |
May 9 | Saturday | Europe Day (European Union) | Observance | |
May 10 | Sunday | Mother's Day | Observance | |
May 14 | Thursday | Father's Day | Observance | |
May 14 | Thursday | Ascension Day | National Holiday | |
May 22 | Friday | First Day of Shavuot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
May 23 | Saturday | Constitution Day | Observance | |
May 23 | Saturday | Second Day of Shavuot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
May 24 | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Observance, Christian | All except BB Brandenburg |
May 24 | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Common Local Holiday | BB Brandenburg |
May 25 | Monday | Whit Monday | National Holiday | |
May 27 | Wednesday | Eid al-Adha | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Jun 1 | Monday | International Children's Day | Observance | |
Jun 3 | Wednesday | European Bicycle Day | Observance | |
Jun 4 | 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 17 | Wednesday | Remembrance of the Victims of SED Injustice | Observance | BE Berlin , TH Thuringia |
Jun 21 | Sunday | Car-free Sunday | Observance | |
Jun 21 | Sunday | June Solstice | Season | |
Jun 24 | Wednesday | St. John | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Jun 26 | Friday | Ashura | Observance, Muslim | HB Bremen , HH Hamburg |
Jun 27 | Saturday | Architecture Day | Observance | |
Jun 29 | Monday | St Peter and Paul | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Aug 8 | Saturday | Peace Festival in Augsburg | Local Holiday | BY Bavaria |
Aug 15 | Saturday | Assumption Day | Common Local Holiday | BY Bavaria , SL Saarland |
Aug 15 | Saturday | Assumption Day | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Sep 1 | Tuesday | Anti War Day | Observance | |
Sep 12 | Saturday | Rosh Hashana | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Sep 12 | Saturday | German Language Day | Observance | |
Sep 13 | Sunday | European Heritage Days | Observance | |
Sep 13 | Sunday | Second Day of Rosh Hashana | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Sep 20 | Sunday | German World Children's Day | Common Local Holiday | TH Thuringia |
Sep 20 | Sunday | German World Children's Day | Observance | |
Sep 21 | Monday | Yom Kippur | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , SL Saarland |
Sep 23 | Wednesday | September Equinox | Season | |
Sep 26 | Saturday | First Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Sep 27 | Sunday | Second Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria , HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Oct 1 | Thursday | Sixth Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria |
Oct 2 | Friday | Seventh Day of Sukkot | Observance, Hebrew | BY Bavaria |
Oct 3 | Saturday | Shemini Atzeret | Observance, Hebrew | HB Bremen , SL Saarland |
Oct 3 | Saturday | Day of German Unity | National Holiday | |
Oct 4 | Sunday | Simchat Torah | Observance, Hebrew | HB Bremen |
Oct 4 | Sunday | Harvest Festival | Observance | |
Oct 11 | Sunday | Grandparents' Day | Observance | BY Bavaria |
Oct 25 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time ends | Clock Change/Daylight Saving Time | |
Oct 30 | Friday | World Thrift Day | Observance | |
Oct 31 | Saturday | 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 | Saturday | Reformation Day | Observance, Christian | HB Bremen , BW Baden-Württemberg |
Oct 31 | Saturday | Halloween | Observance | |
Nov 1 | Sunday | All Saints' Day | Observance, Christian | HB Bremen , NI Lower Saxony , SN Saxony , TH Thuringia |
Nov 1 | Sunday | All Saints' Day | Public Holiday, Quiet Day | BW Baden-Württemberg , BY Bavaria , NW North Rhine-Westphalia , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , SL Saarland |
Nov 2 | Monday | All Souls' Day | Quiet Day | NI Lower Saxony |
Nov 9 | Monday | Night of Broken Glass Remembrance Day | Observance | |
Nov 9 | Monday | 9th of November | Observance | BE Berlin |
Nov 9 | Monday | Fall of the Berlin Wall | Observance | |
Nov 11 | Wednesday | St. Martin's Day | Observance, Christian | |
Nov 15 | Sunday | National Day of Mourning | Quiet Day | |
Nov 18 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Common Local Holiday | SN Saxony |
Nov 18 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Observance, Christian | BW Baden-Württemberg , HE Hesse , NI Lower Saxony , RP Rhineland-Palatinate , TH Thuringia |
Nov 18 | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Quiet Day | BY Bavaria , SL Saarland , SN Saxony |
Nov 22 | Sunday | Sunday of the Dead | Quiet Day | |
Nov 29 | Sunday | First Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 6 | Sunday | Second Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 6 | Sunday | Saint Nicholas Day | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 8 | Tuesday | Feast of the Immaculate Conception | Observance, Christian | SN Saxony |
Dec 13 | Sunday | Third Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 19 | Saturday | Remembrance Day for Roma and Sinti Killed By Genocide | Observance | |
Dec 20 | Sunday | Fourth Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | |
Dec 21 | Monday | December Solstice | Season | |
Dec 24 | Thursday | Christmas Eve | Quiet Day | |
Dec 25 | Friday | Christmas Day | National Holiday | |
Dec 26 | Saturday | Boxing Day | National Holiday | |
Dec 31 | Thursday | New Year's Eve | Bank Holiday | |