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Holiday Local name (in German) Date                                
New Year's Day Neujahrstag 1 January  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Epiphany Heilige Drei Könige 6 January  Y  Y  Y
Women's Day[1] Frauentag 8 March  Y
Good Friday Karfreitag Easter Sunday – 2d  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Easter Monday Ostermontag Easter Sunday + 1d  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Labour Day Tag der Arbeit 1 May  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Ascension Day Christi Himmelfahrt Easter Sunday + 39d  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Whit Monday Pfingstmontag Easter Sunday + 50d  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Corpus Christi Fronleichnam Easter Sunday + 60d  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y (1) (2)
Augsburg Peace Festival Friedensfest 8 August (3)
Assumption Day Mariä Himmelfahrt 15 August  Y(4)(5)  Y
World Children's Day Weltkindertag 20 September  Y (10)[2]
German Unity Day Tag der Deutschen Einheit 3 October  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Reformation Day (6) Reformationstag 31 October  Y  Y(9)  Y(9)  Y  Y(9)  Y  Y  Y(9)  Y
All Saints' Day Allerheiligen 1 November  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Repentance and Prayer Day (7) Buß- und Bettag Second Wednesday before the First Advent (5)  Y
Christmas Day Weihnachtstag 25 December  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Boxing Day Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag 26 December  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y  Y
Total number of holidays per state (8) 12 13 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 12 11 11 10 11(10)

Notes:

 Y – public holiday is celebrated in that state.
(1) Public holiday only in few Sorbian communities.
(2) Public holiday only in the Catholic district of Eichsfeld.
(3) Public holiday only in the city of Augsburg.
(4) Public holiday only in approx. 1700 communities with predominantly Catholic population and in the cities of Augsburg and Munich.
(5) Schools are closed all over the state on that day.
(6) One-time public holiday in all states, including those not normally observing Reformation Day, to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
(7) Public holiday in all states until 1994. The holiday was discontinued with introduction of nursing care insurance. Saxony is the only state where employers do not have to pay for nursing care insurance (paid by employees in that state) and where the holiday is still kept.
(8) For states where some holidays are not observed uniformly all over the state, such holidays are included in state's total number of holidays if celebration of those holidays is predominant and widespread in that state:
  • Bavaria: with Assumption Day, without Peace Festival.
  • Saxony and Thuringia: without Corpus Christi.
(9) Four states decided to permanently adopt the Reformation Day as permanent holiday starting in 2018 (Bremen,[3] Hamburg,[4] Lower Saxony[5] and Schleswig-Holstein[6]).
(10) From 2019 onwards.
  1. ^ "Frauentag wird gesetzlicher Feiertag". berlin.de (in German). 22 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Thüringen bekommt neuen Feiertag". 28 February 2019.
  3. ^ Weser-Kurier. "Reformationstag wird Feiertag in Bremen" (in German). Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  4. ^ NDR. "Hamburg hat einen neuen Feiertag" (in German). Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  5. ^ NDR. "Beschlossen: Reformationstag wird neuer Feiertag" (in German). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Schleswig-Holstein hat einen neuen Feiertag" (in German). NDR. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.