School holidays and public holidays in Germany: the next dates
Germany · 2026-10-12
Next public holiday: 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag (Christmas Day), Fri 25 Dec 2026
- Today is Mon 12 Oct 2026 in the time zone Europe/Berlin.
- School holidays differ by region here. The regions are listed below.
- The public holiday is in 74 days.
- The public holiday falls on a Friday, next to the weekend.
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Public holidays ahead
| Holiday | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Weihnachtsfeiertag (Christmas Day) | Fri 25 Dec 2026 | |
| 2. Weihnachtsfeiertag (2nd Day of Christmas) | Sat 26 Dec 2026 | |
| Neujahr (New Year's Day) | Fri 1 Jan 2027 | |
| Karfreitag (Good Friday) | Fri 26 Mar 2027 | |
| Ostermontag (Easter Monday) | Mon 29 Mar 2027 | |
| Tag der Arbeit (Labour Day) | Sat 1 May 2027 | |
| Christi Himmelfahrt (Ascension Day) | Thu 6 May 2027 | |
| Pfingstmontag (Pentecost Monday) | Mon 17 May 2027 | |
| Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity) | Sun 3 Oct 2027 |
Regions and communities of Germany
Each has its own page with the dates that apply there.
- Brandenburg
- Berlin
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bayern (Bavaria)
- Bremen
- Hessen (Hesse)
- Hamburg
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
- Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)
- Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
- Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Saarland
- Sachsen (Saxony)
- Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)
- Thüringen (Thuringia)
Data fetched from OpenHolidays API on 2026-10-12 (UTC). This page answers from that table until 2026-11-26, then stops until the data is fetched again.
Data
Contains information from the OpenHolidays API (STÜBER SYSTEMS GmbH), which is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.
The holiday table on this site is a database derived from it. It is offered under the same licence and can be read in full at /api/holidays.