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Public holidays by state, for 2026 and 2027.

Choose your federal state and the year. You see every statutory holiday with its weekday and get the matching calendar as a PDF to print.

Holidays

9 nationwide holidays 2026

Date Weekday Holiday
ThursdayNew Year's Day
FridayGood Friday
MondayEaster Monday
FridayLabour Day
ThursdayAscension Thursday
MondayWhit Monday
SaturdayGerman Unity Day
FridayFirst Christmas Day
SaturdaySecond Christmas Day

Choose a federal state, and the calendar comes as a PDF.

As of 2026 and 2027. This information does not replace legal advice.

What is calculated

9 holidays apply in every state. The rest only in some of them.

Fixed holidays fall on the same date every year. Moveable ones follow Easter Sunday; Repentance Day is the last Wednesday before 23 November. Where a holiday applies only in parts of a state, the list notes that.

Nationwide

Apply in every state

  • New Year's Day 1 January
  • Good Friday 2 days before Easter Sunday
  • Easter Monday 1 day after Easter Sunday
  • Labour Day 1 May
  • Ascension Thursday 39 days after Easter Sunday
  • Whit Monday 50 days after Easter Sunday
  • German Unity Day 3 October
  • First Christmas Day 25 December
  • Second Christmas Day 26 December
State by state

Apply only in individual states

  • Feast of the Epiphany 6 January: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt
  • International Women's Day 8 March: Berlin, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Easter Sunday moveable: Brandenburg
  • Whit Sunday 49 days after Easter Sunday: Brandenburg
  • Corpus Christi 60 days after Easter Sunday: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland; in parts: Saxony, Thuringia
  • Augsburg Peace Festival 8 August: Bavaria, only in parts
  • Assumption Day 15 August: Saarland; in parts: Bavaria
  • Children's Day 20 September: Thuringia
  • Reformation Day 31 October: Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia
  • All Saints' Day 1 November: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland
  • Repentance Day last Wednesday before 23 November: Saxony
In Zentrana

What Zentrana does with it automatically

  1. 01 Time tracking knows the public holidays of every federal state and adds them to the time account.
  2. 02 Corpus Christi, Assumption Day and the Augsburg Peace Festival can be switched on per location.
  3. 03 If the company has locations in several federal states, each person follows the calendar of their own location.
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