Germany’s public holidays vary depending on where you live. Nine apply nationwide in 2027, while individual states and even some municipalities have additional days off.
Whether you are planning a trip, visiting family or hoping for a few long weekends, it pays to get the dates of Germany’s public holidays (Feiertage) into your diary early.
Unfortunately, the 2027 calendar is not especially generous for Monday-to-Friday employees. Only five of the nine nationwide holidays fall on weekdays, while Labour Day, German Unity Day and both Christmas holidays are all lost to weekends next year.
But where you live may still bring extra days off. Here are Germany’s nationwide and regional Feiertage next year.
Nationwide public holidays
The following public holidays apply wherever you live in Germany:
- Friday, January 1st: New Year’s Day (Neujahr)
- Friday, March 26th: Good Friday (Karfreitag)
- Monday, March 29th: Easter Monday (Ostermontag)
- Saturday, May 1st: Labour Day (Tag der Arbeit)
- Thursday, May 6th: Ascension Day (Christi Himmelfahrt)
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- Monday, May 17th: Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag)
- Sunday, October 3rd: German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)
- Saturday, December 25th: Christmas Day (Erster Weihnachtstag)
- Sunday, December 26th: Boxing Day (Zweiter Weihnachtstag)
Brandenburg and Hesse also officially count Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday as public holidays. But since both always fall on a Sunday, neither gives Monday-to-Friday workers an additional day off.
Regional public holidays
Germany’s federal states, or Bundesländer, determine some of their own public holidays. This means that a normal working day in one part of the country may be a Feiertag just across the state border.
For employees, the public holiday calendar generally depends on where they work rather than where they live – an important distinction for anyone who commutes across a state border.
Some holidays are more local still. For example, the Augsburg Peace Festival applies only within Augsburg, while Corpus Christi and Assumption Day are observed only in certain localities in some states.
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- Wednesday, January 6th: Epiphany (Heilige Drei Könige) – Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt
- Monday, March 8th: International Women’s Day (Internationaler Frauentag) – Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Thursday, May 27th: Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam) – Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, plus some local regions in Saxony and Thuringia
- Sunday, August 8th: Augsburg Peace Festival (Augsburger Friedensfest) – within Augsburg’s city limits
- Sunday, August 15th: Assumption Day (Mariä Himmelfahrt) – Saarland and eligible municipalities in Bavaria
- Monday, September 20th: World Children’s Day (Weltkindertag) – Thuringia
- Sunday, October 31st: Reformation Day (Reformationstag) – Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia
- Monday, November 1st: All Saints’ Day (Allerheiligen) – Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
- Wednesday, November 17th: Day of Repentance and Prayer (Buß- und Bettag) – Saxony
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