Public holidays in Germany, 2025
Germany observes 9 nationwide public holidays in 2025. After weekends and those holidays are removed, the working year comes to 252 days.
Every public holiday in 2025
| Date | Day | Holiday | Scope |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed, 1 Jan | Wednesday | New Year's Day Neujahr |
Nationwide |
| Mon, 6 Jan | Monday | Epiphany Heilige Drei Könige |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-ST |
| Sat, 8 Mar | Saturday Weekend | International Women's Day Internationaler Frauentag |
DE-BE, DE-MV |
| Fri, 18 Apr | Friday | Good Friday Karfreitag |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 20 Apr | Sunday Weekend | Easter Sunday Ostersonntag |
DE-BB |
| Mon, 21 Apr | Monday | Easter Monday Ostermontag |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 1 May | Thursday | Labour Day Tag der Arbeit |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 8 May | Thursday | Liberation Day Tag der Befreiung |
DE-BE |
| Thu, 29 May | Thursday | Ascension Day Christi Himmelfahrt |
Nationwide |
| Sun, 8 Jun | Sunday Weekend | Pentecost Pfingstsonntag |
DE-BB |
| Mon, 9 Jun | Monday | Whit Monday Pfingstmontag |
Nationwide |
| Thu, 19 Jun | Thursday | Corpus Christi Fronleichnam |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-HE, DE-NW, DE-RP, DE-SL |
| Fri, 15 Aug | Friday | Assumption Day Mariä Himmelfahrt |
DE-SL |
| Sat, 20 Sep | Saturday Weekend | World Children's Day Weltkindertag |
DE-TH |
| Fri, 3 Oct | Friday | German Unity Day Tag der Deutschen Einheit |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 31 Oct | Friday | Reformation Day Reformationstag |
DE-BB, DE-MV, DE-SN, DE-ST, DE-TH, DE-HB, DE-HH, DE-NI, DE-SH |
| Sat, 1 Nov | Saturday Weekend | All Saints' Day Allerheiligen |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-NW, DE-RP, DE-SL |
| Wed, 19 Nov | Wednesday | Repentance and Prayer Day Buß- und Bettag |
DE-SN |
| Thu, 25 Dec | Thursday | Christmas Day Erster Weihnachtstag |
Nationwide |
| Fri, 26 Dec | Friday | St. Stephen's Day Zweiter Weihnachtstag |
Nationwide |
11 further dates are observed in some regions only and are not counted in the working day totals above.
Working days month by month
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend | Holidays | Working days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 | 160 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 | 176 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| Year | 365 | 104 | 9 | 252 | 2,016 |
Reading these figures
The working day count treats Saturday and Sunday as the weekend, which is the standard working week in Germany. Only nationwide holidays are deducted; a date observed in one region alone still counts as a working day here, because a national figure that moved with regional calendars would describe nobody accurately.
The longest working month is July at 23 days; the shortest is November at 20. That spread of 3 days matters for anything billed or accrued monthly, which is why payroll and capacity plans that assume an even year drift by the end of it. The thinnest quarter is Q2, carrying 60 working days across April, May, June.
Against the 204 countries covered here for 2025, Germany's 9 nationwide holidays put it below the median of 12, around the 17th percentile. The range across all countries this year runs from 3 to 48.
The holidays produce 4 breaks of three consecutive non-working days or more. The longest runs 4 days, from 18 April 2025 to 21 April 2025, built around Good Friday and Easter Monday. A further 2 working days are stranded between a holiday and a weekend, where one day of leave buys a break of four days or more. The full breakdown is here.
Notes on Germany
Germany has no single national holiday calendar. Only German Unity Day on 3 October is fixed by
federal law; every other date is set by the individual Land, which is why the number of days off
ranges from around nine in the northern city states to thirteen in Bavaria. Corpus Christi,
Assumption, Reformation Day and All Saints' Day each apply in some Länder and not others,
broadly along the older confessional boundaries. The figures on this page count only the days
observed nationwide, so a worker in Munich has more time off than the national total suggests
and a worker in Hamburg has close to it.
There is no substitute day when a holiday falls on a weekend. A year in which several dates land
on a Saturday or Sunday is simply a longer working year, and the difference between a good year
and a bad one runs to three or four days. That matters for anything budgeted in working days
rather than calendar months.
Augsburg is worth knowing about if you have people there: the city observes the Friedensfest on
8 August, which no other municipality in Germany does.