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Public Holidays
DateEnglish NameLocal NameRemarks
January 1 New Year's Day ''Neujahr''  
January 6 Epiphany ''Heilige Drei Könige'' in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , Saxony-Anhalt
'' Moveable '' Good Friday ''Karfreitag'' 
'' Moveable '' Easter Sunday''Ostersonntag'' 
'' Moveable '' Easter Monday''Ostermontag'' 
May 1 Labour Day / May Day ''Tag der Arbeit''/''Maifeiertag'' 
'' Moveable '' Ascension Day ''Christi Himmelfahrt'' 
'' Moveable '' Whitsunday ''Pfingstsonntag'' 
'' Moveable '' Whitmonday ''Pfingstmontag'' 
'' Moveable '' Corpus Christi ''Fronleichnam'' in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , Hesse , NRW ,
Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , and some communities in Saxony and Thuringia
August 15 Assumption Day ''Mariä Himmelfahrt'' in Saarland , and in Bavaria n communities with mostly Catholic population
October 3 German Unity Day ''Tag der Deutschen Einheit''national holiday since 1990; used to be on June 17th up to 1990, commemorating the Workers Uprising Of 1953 In East Germany
October 31 Reformation Day ''Reformationstag''in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , Thuringia , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg
November 1 All Saints ''Allerheiligen'' in Bavaria , Baden-Württemberg , NRW ,
Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland
'' Moveable '' Penance Day ''Buß- und Bettag'' Saxony ; national holiday until 1994. The holiday has been dropped in exchange for the introduction of nursing care insurance. Saxony is the only state where employers don't have to pay the nursing care insurance, it's all been paid by the employees, so they could keep the holiday.
December 24 Christmas Eve ''Heiligabend''it is a "half" public holiday, which means, that the employees have to take one holiday for christmas eve and silvester, when they want to have a leisure day
December 25 Christmas Day ''1. Weihnachtsfeiertag'' 
December 26 Boxing Day ''2. Weihnachtsfeiertag'' 
December 31 New Years Eve ''Silvester''it is a "half" public holiday, which means, that the employees have to take one holiday for silvester and christmas eve, when they want to have a leisure day


The only town in Germany which has its own additional public holiday is Augsburg .
The ''Friedensfest'' ("Peace Festival") is celebrated on August 8 .

Either Carnival Monday ("Rose Monday") or Mardi Gras is a De Facto holiday in many towns and cities in catholic western and southern Germany which have a strong Carnival tradition.


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