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