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Germany Public Holidays 2026

See also: 2026 public holidays in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, EMEA, EU, Europe, Eurozone, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, OECD, Poland, Switzerland and worldwide.

Germany public holidays by region: Baden-Württemberg (BW), Bayern (BY), Berlin (BE), Brandenburg (BB), Bremen (HB), Hamburg (HH), Hessen (HE), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV), Niedersachsen (NI), Nordrhein-Westfalen (NW), Rheinland-Pfalz (RP), Saarland (SL), Sachsen (SN), Sachsen-Anhalt (ST), Schleswig-Holstein (SH), Thüringen (TH).

This page contains the list of Germany 2026 public holidays, bank holidays, government holidays, non-working national holidays, and sectorial holidays. The data on this page is also accessible via our free Android and iPhone mobile apps, whose data feed is also updated nightly. The full qppstudio worldwide public holidays database for 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, and beyond, is available immediately, with a professional license.

The list of Germany public holidays in 2026 is:


Date Weekday Public Holiday Observance
Thursday New Year's Day
Tuesday Epiphany (BW BY ST) regional
Sunday International Women's Day (BE MV) regional
Friday Good Friday
Sunday Easter Sunday (BB) regional
Monday Easter Monday
Friday Labour Day
Thursday Ascension Day
Sunday Whit Sunday (BB) regional
Monday Whit Monday
Thursday Corpus Christi (BW BY HE NW RP SL SN* TH*) regional
Saturday Assumption Day (BY* SL) regional
Sunday World Children's Day (TH) regional
Saturday German Unity Day
Saturday Reformation Day (BB HB HH MV NI SH SN ST TH) regional
Sunday All Saints' Day (BW BY NW RP SL) regional
Wednesday Repentance Day (SN) regional
Thursday Bank Holiday banks
Friday Christmas Day
Saturday Second Day of Christmas
Thursday Bank Holiday banks

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Global Holidays Observed in Germany


Below is the list of global holidays observed as non-working public holidays in Germany, with the dates of these global holidays for the next 10 years (2024-2034).

Germany Background Information and Links


Germany Regional Abbreviations


Below is a list of the Germany regional abbreviations, used for regional public holidays, in the table above.