Public holidays in Germany |
Except for the national holiday (German Unity Day), public holidays in Germany are determined by the federal states and may vary a lot. Catholics and Lutherans have difference in their religious holidays. Main Public holidays are the following:
• 1.1. New Year's Day
• 6.1. Epiphany (only in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt)
• Good Friday, 2 days before Easter Sunday
• Easter Monday, 1 day after Easter Sunday
• 1.5. Labour Day
• 13.5.2010 Ascension Day (39 days after Easter Sunday)
• 24.5.2010 Whit Monday (50 days after Easter Sunday)
• 3.6.2010 Corpus Christi (50 days after Easter Sunday)
• 8.8. Peace Festival (only in Bavaria)
• 15.8. Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption Day), Catholic holiday
• 3.10. German Unity Day
• 31.10. Reformation Day (only in 5 new states)
• 1.11. All Saints (Catholic religious holiday)
• Day of Repentance and Prayer, Wed before 23.11. (only in Bavaria and Saxony)
• 25.12. Christmas Day
• 26.12. St Stephen's Day |
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