Holidays in Germany 2024, 2025, 2026 (state, unofficial, memorable dates)

What will the holidays be like in Germany in 2024, 2025 and 2026? What are the holidays, memorial dates and anniversaries in Germany? In this article you will find complete lists of German public holidays for 2024, 2025 and 2026. We will also list unofficial holidays, memorial dates and anniversaries of important historical events. Find more information about holidays and school holidays at ALYO.Info.

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What holidays do Germans have?

In Germany there are public (legal, official) holidays. These days, every resident of the country, or working in the territory of Germany, has the right to a paid day of rest or additional compensation for work on that day.

By law, there are federal public holidays and regular public holidays in Germany. Federals are celebrated throughout the country. In reality, there is only one such day – the Day of German Unity. All others are public holidays of the federal states.

There are holidays that are celebrated all over the country. For example:

New Year.
Labor Day.
Christmas.

They are adopted at the level of individual states and can be canceled. Some public holidays are public holidays in certain areas, municipalities or communes. We will indicate this in the description for a particular holiday. Also in the lists you will find the names of federal states in which the corresponding day is a public holiday.

In addition to legal public holidays, there are memorable dates, church and unofficial holidays. Commemorative dates are accepted at the official level, but are not non-working days. Some church holidays (for example, Easter Monday or Epiphany) are public holidays.

Frequently asked questions about German public holidays

Is a holiday in Germany postponed if it falls on a Saturday or Sunday?

In Germany, there is no transfer of holidays. If a public holiday falls on a Saturday, Sunday or other non-working day, the employee cannot receive an additional day of rest.

Who determines the dates of public holidays?

Germany has only one federal public holiday, German Unity Day. This day is fixed at the federal level. All other public holidays are determined at the level of the federal states.

Is there compensation for working on a public holiday?

If an employee worked on a public holiday, he is entitled to an allowance.

What is the pay on a public holiday?

If an employee does not work on a public holiday, the employee is paid at the regular rate. But the amount of remuneration does not include reimbursement of expenses. If a public holiday falls on a non-working day, the employee is not paid wages.

How is a public holiday determined – by place of residence, work, or location of the company?

The dates of public holidays in Germany depend on the federal state, city or municipality. There are incidents when there is no public holiday at the location of the company’s headquarters, but there is one at the employee’s place of work. The Federal Labor Court, ruling of March 17, 2010, 5 AZR 317/09, determined that the law on public holidays in force at the place of work is decisive.

Public holidays in Germany 2024

Below are the public holidays in Germany in 2024. In parentheses we have indicated in which lands they are observed. If nothing is specified, then this day is a public holiday throughout Germany.

January 2024

January 1 (Monday) 2024 – New Year.
January 6 (Saturday) 2024 – Epiphany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt).

March 2024

March 8 (Friday) 2024 – International Women’s Day (Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
March 28 (Thursday) 2024 – Maundy Thursday.
March 29 (Friday) 2024 – Good Friday.
March 31 (Sunday) 2024 – Easter Sunday.

Maundy Thursday is a church holiday and not a public holiday. We have added it to this list to designate it as a possible non-school day. If Maundy Thursday does not fall during the school holidays, then in Baden-Württemberg school students are excused from classes.

April 2024

April 1 (Monday) 2024 – Easter Monday.

INTERESTING FACT: Easter Sunday and Pentecost Sunday are considered official public holidays only in the states of Brandenburg and Hesse. Moreover, in Hesse all Sundays are considered holidays.

May 2024

May 1 (Wednesday) 2024 – Labor Day.
May 9 (Thursday) 2024 – Ascension of Christ.
May 19 (Sunday) 2024 – Pentecost Sunday.
May 20 (Monday) 2024 – Trinity Monday.
May 30 (Thursday) 2024 – Corpus Christi (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some municipalities and regions of Saxony and Thuringia).

Municipalities and districts of Saxony in which Corpus Christi is a public holiday:

Bautzen (Bolbritz and Salzenforst districts only).
Crostwitz.
Göda (district Prischwitz only).
Großdubrau (Sdier area only).
Hoyerswerda (Dörgenhausen district only).
Königswartha (all areas of Ortsteile except Wartha).
Smoke screen.
Neschwitz.
Panschwitz-Kuckau.
Puschwitz.
Räckelwitz.
Radibor.
Ralbitz-Rosenthal.
Wittichenau.

The municipalities (communities) and cities of Thuringia in which the Feast of Corpus Christi is a public holiday are listed in this list:

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August 2024

August 8 (Thursday) 2024 – Augsburg High Peace Festival (Augsburg, without surrounding area).
August 15 (Thursday) 2024 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary (most municipalities of Bavaria, Saarland).

In Bavaria, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a public holiday in predominantly Catholic communities. The list of these municipalities changes periodically. You can clarify it and find out information on a specific community at the Bavarian State Statistical Office using this link: https://statistik.bayern.de/statistik/gebiet_bevoelkerung/zensus/himmelfahrt/index.php .

September 2024

September 20 (Friday) 2024 – World Children’s Day (Thuringia).

October 2024

October 3 (Thursday) 2024 – Day of German Unity.
October 31 (Thursday) 2024 – Reformation Day / Reformation Festival / Reformation Memorial Day (Baden-Württemburg (partial), Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein , Thuringia).

In Baden-Württemberg there is no day off work on Reformation Day. If it does not fall on school holidays, then school students are excused from classes.

November 2024

November 1 (Friday) 2024 – All Saints’ Day (Baden-Württemburg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland).
November 20 (Wednesday) 2024 – Day of Repentance and Prayer (Bavaria (see below), Saarland).

In Bavaria, the Day of Repentance and Prayer is not a public holiday. November 20, 2024 is not an official day off in this federal state, but school students are exempt from classes. Teachers go to work.

December 2024

December 25 (Wednesday) 2024 – First day of Christmas.
December 26 (Thursday) 2024 – Second Day of Christmas.

Unofficial holidays in Germany 2024, memorable dates

January 2024

January 20 (Saturday) 2024 – German Hit Day.
January 22 (Monday) 2024 – German-French day.

February 2024

February 8 (Thursday) 2024 – Women’s Carnival (Dirty Thursday).
February 10 (Saturday) 2024 – Children’s Hospice Day.
February 12 (Monday) 2024 – Carnival Monday.
February 13 (Tuesday) 2024 – Carnival Tuesday (Purple Tuesday).
February 14 (Wednesday) 2024 – Valentine’s Day.
February 14 (Wednesday) 2024 – Ash Wednesday.

March 2024

March 7 (Thursday) 2024 – Healthy Eating Day.
March 10 (Sunday) 2024 – Ramadan.
March 15 (Friday) 2024 – Back Health Day.
March 18 (Monday) 2024 – National day of action for the release of political prisoners.
March 22 (Friday) 2024 – Crime Victims Day.
March 24 (Sunday) 2024 – Palm Sunday.
March 24 (Sunday) 2024 – White Sunday.
March 28 (Thursday) 2024 – Maundy Thursday.
March 30 (Saturday) 2024 – Holy Saturday.

April 2024

April 3 (Wednesday) 2024 – Senior Generation Day.
April 23 (Tuesday) 2024 – German Beer Day.
April 25 (Thursday) 2024 – Girls’ Day.
April 30 (Tuesday) 2024 – Walpurgis Night.

May 2024

May 5 (Sunday) 2024 – Day of Children with Heart Defects.
May 8 (Wednesday) 2024 – Liberation Day.
May 9 (Thursday) 2024 – Father’s Day.
May 10 (Friday) 2024 – Stroke Day.
May 10 (Friday) 2024 – (Free) Book Day.
May 11 (Saturday) 2024 – Free Comic Book Day.
May 12 (Sunday) 2024 – Mother’s Day.
May 20 (Monday) 2024 – German Mill Day.
May 23 (Thursday) 2024 – Basic Law Day.
May 23 (Thursday) 2024 – German Diversity Day.
May 26 (Sunday) 2024 – Trinity.
May 28 (Tuesday) 2024 – Life Donation Day.

June 2024

June 6 (Thursday) 2024 – Day of the Visually Impaired.
June 9 (Sunday) 2024 – Garden Day.
June 10 (Monday) 2024 – Children’s Safety Day.
June 15 (Saturday) 2024 – Road Safety Day.
June 20 (Thursday) 2024 – Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Flight and Expulsion.
June 21 (Friday) 2024 – Sun Protection Day.
June 21 (Friday) 2024 – Sleep Day.
June 29 (Saturday) 2024 – Architecture Day.

July 2024

July 21 (Sunday) 2024 – National Day of Remembrance for Dead Drug Addicts.
July 28 (Sunday) 2024 – Sea Rescue Day.
July 31 (Wednesday) 2024 – Food Diversity Day.

August 2024

August 13 (Tuesday) 2024 – Anniversary of the construction of the wall in 1961.
August 28 (Wednesday) 2024 – Day of Russian Germans.

September 2024

September 1 (Sunday) 2024 – Anti-War Action Day.
September 5 (Thursday) 2024 – Headache Day.
September 8 (Sunday) 2024 – Motherland Day, Day of Remembrance and Instruction, Day of Open Monuments, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Flight, Expulsion and Forced Relocation (Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony).
September 11 (Wednesday) 2024 – Homeless Day.
September 15 (Sunday) 2024 – Geotope Day.
September 17 (Tuesday) 2024 – German Language Day.
September 19 (Thursday) 2024 – Day of Civil Courage.
September 24 (Tuesday) 2024 – Space Day.
September 25 (Wednesday) 2024 – Dental Health Day.
September 27 (Friday) 2024 – German Sandwich Day.
September 28 (Saturday) 2024 – Lung Day.
September 30 (Monday) 2024 – Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Day.

October 2024

October 3 (Thursday) 2024 – Open Mosque Day.
October 5 (Saturday) 2024 – Epilepsy Day.
October 6 (Sunday) 2024 – German-American Day.
October 8 (Tuesday) 2024 – Climate Protection Day in Industry.
October 11 (Friday) 2024 – Yom Kippur.
October 14 (Monday) 2024 – Hospice Day.
October 24 (Thursday) 2024 – Library Day.
October 31 (Thursday) 2024 – Halloween.

November 2024

November 9 (Saturday) 2024 – Day of Remembrance of the Night of Broken Glass in 1938.
November 9 (Saturday) 2024 – Day of Remembrance of the fall of the Berlin Wall between East and West in 1989.
November 9 (Saturday) 2024 – Proclamation of the German Republic by Philipp Scheidemann (November Revolution) in 1918.
November 15 (Friday) 2024 – Reading Day.
November 20 (Wednesday) 2024 – Liver Day.
November 24 (Sunday) 2024 – Sunday of the Dead.

December 2024

December 1 (Sunday) 2024 – First Sunday of Advent.
December 6 (Friday) 2024 – Nicholas Day.
December 8 (Sunday) 2024 – Education Day.
December 8 (Sunday) 2024 – Crime Day.
December 8 (Sunday) 2024 – Second Sunday of Advent.
December 15 (Sunday) 2024 – Third Sunday of Advent.
December 19 (Thursday) 2024 – Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Sinti and Roma Genocide.
December 22 (Sunday) 2024 – Fourth Sunday of Advent.
December 24 (Tuesday) 2024 – Christmas Eve.
December 25 (Wednesday) 2024 — Hanukkah.
December 31 (Tuesday) 2024 – Sylvester.

Public holidays in Germany 2025

The following are the German public holidays in 2025. If a holiday is celebrated in some states or parts thereof, it is indicated in parentheses. If the holiday is celebrated throughout Germany, no further information is published.

January 2025

January 1 (Wednesday) 2025 – New Year.
January 6 (Monday) 2025 – Epiphany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt).

March 2025

March 8 (Saturday) 2025 – International Women’s Day (Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

April 2025

April 18 (Friday) 2025 – Good Friday.
April 20 (Sunday) 2025 – Easter Sunday.
April 21 (Monday) 2025 – Easter Monday.

May 2025

May 1 (Thursday) 2025 – Labor Day.
May 29 (Thursday) 2025 – Ascension of Christ.

June 2025

June 8 (Sunday) 2025 – Pentecost Sunday.
June 9 (Monday) 2025 – Trinity Monday.
June 19 (Thursday) 2025 – Corpus Christi (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some municipalities and areas of Saxony and Thuringia (partially)).

August 2025

August 8 (Friday) 2025 – Augsburg High Peace Festival (Augsburg, without surrounding area).
August 15 (Friday) 2025 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary (most municipalities of Bavaria (partially), Saarland).

September 2025

September 20 (Saturday) 2025 – World Children’s Day (Thuringia).

October 2025

October 3 (Friday) 2025 – Day of German Unity.
October 31 (Friday) 2025 – Reformation Day / Reformation Festival / Reformation Memorial Day (Baden-Württemburg (partially). Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein , Thuringia).

November 2025

November 1 (Saturday) 2025 – All Saints’ Day (Baden-Württemburg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland).
November 19 (Wednesday) 2025 – Day of Repentance and Prayer (Bavaria (see below), Saarland).

In Bavaria, the Day of Repentance and Prayer is not a public holiday. November 19, 2025 is not an official day off in this federal state, but school students are exempt from classes. Teachers go to work.

December 2025

December 25 (Thursday) 2025 – First day of Christmas.
December 26 (Friday) 2025 – Second day of Christmas.

Public holidays in Germany 2026

This section lists the public holidays in Germany in 2026. Please note: if there is no note for a holiday, it is observed throughout the country. If there is a note, it indicates in which lands it is celebrated.

January 2026

January 1 (Thursday) 2026 – New Year, public holiday.
January 6 (Tuesday) 2026 – Epiphany, public holiday (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt).

March 2026

March 8 (Sunday) 2026 – International Women’s Day, public holiday (Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).

April 2026

April 3 (Friday) 2026 – Good Friday, public holiday.
April 5 (Sunday) 2026 – Easter Sunday, public holiday.
April 6 (Monday) 2026 – Easter Monday, public holiday.

May 2026

May 1 (Friday) 2026 – Labor Day, public holiday.
May 14 (Thursday) 2026 – Ascension of Christ, public holiday.
May 24 (Sunday) 2026 – Pentecost Sunday, public holiday.
May 25 (Monday) 2026 – Trinity Monday, public holiday.

June 2026

June 4 (Thursday) 2026 – Corpus Christi, public holiday (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some municipalities and areas of Saxony and Thuringia (partially)).

August 2026

August 8 (Saturday) 2026 – Augsburg High Peace Festival, public holiday (Augsburg, without surrounding area).
August 15 (Saturday) 2026 – Assumption of the Virgin Mary, public holiday (most municipalities of Bavaria (partially), Saarland).

September 2026

September 20 (Sunday) 2026 – World Children’s Day, public holiday (Thuringia).

October 2026

October 3 (Saturday) 2026 – German Unity Day, public holiday.
October 31 (Saturday) 2026 – Reformation Day, public holiday (Baden-Württemburg (partially). Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia).

November 2026

November 1 (Sunday) 2026 – All Saints’ Day, public holiday (Baden-Württemburg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland).
November 18 (Wednesday) 2026 – Day of Repentance and Prayer, public holiday (Bavaria (see below), Saarland).

In Bavaria, the Day of Repentance and Prayer is not a public holiday. November 18, 2026 is not an official day off in this federal state, but school students are exempt from classes. Teachers go to work.

December 2026

December 25 (Friday) 2026 – First Day of Christmas, public holiday.
December 26 (Saturday) 2026 – Second Day of Christmas, public holiday.

In this article, we looked at public holidays in Germany in 2024, 2025 and 2026. More useful information can be found at ALYO.Info. Be sure to share this post with your friends!