Calendar of holidays and school vacations in Germany
The German law establishes official holidays free from work, but not every holiday is valid throughout Germany. Some holidays are valid only for certain federated states (lands), and one holiday is fixed only for one city. In each land of Germany school vacations also have their own schedule and duration and are usually different from holidays in other lands of the country. In addition, each school has the opportunity to independently set several days during the year as a flexible schedule vacation.
- Information on the page:
- Today in Germany
- Calendar of holidays and vacations
- Holidays schedule
- Non-working days
- Vacations schedule
- Description of holidays in Germany
- Comments and questions
§ What holiday is it today in Germany
Today, on 2 July 2022 Germany has no official national holiday, which would be a day off from work.
Upcoming popular holidays:
- 06.06.2022 (Mo) Pentecost, 2nd day *, 26 days agoGermany Germany
- 16.06.2022 (Th) Corpus Christi *, 16 days agoGermany Germany
- 24.06.2022 (Fr) St. John the Baptist’s Feast Day, 8 days agoGermany Germany
- 08.08.2022 (Mo) Augsburg Peace Festival *, in 1 month 6 daysGermany Germany
- 15.08.2022 (Mo) Assumption of the Virgin Mary *, in 1 month 13 daysGermany Germany
- 17.09.2022 (Sa) Oktoberfest, in 2 months 15 daysGermany Germany
- 20.09.2022 (Tu) Universal Children's Day, in 2 months 18 daysGermany Germany
- 02.10.2022 (Su) Harvest Feast, in 3 monthsGermany Germany
- 03.10.2022 (Mo) German Unity Day *, in 3 months 1 dayGermany Germany
* - public holiday (in which regions of Germany the holiday is a day free from work, see below on the calendar)
A comprehensive schedule of popular, folk, religious holidays in Germany
§ Calendar of public holidays and school vacations in Germany
In the calendar below you will find all public holidays in Germany, valid throughout the country or only in some of its lands. For more information about the red letter dates, click on them or hover the mouse over them. Besides, detailed information about the holiday will be provided by the following schedule of holidays in Germany for 2022.
To view the calendars of holidays and vacations in the federated state of Germany you need, go to the list of calendars by land(federated state) of Germany.
Calendar of public holidays in Germany
- January 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 52
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- 2
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- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 2
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
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- 15
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- 3
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 4
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 5
- 31
- February 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 5
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 7
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 8
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 9
- 28
- March 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 9
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 10
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 11
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 12
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 13
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- April 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 13
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 14
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 15
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 16
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 17
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- May 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 17
- 1
- 18
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 19
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 20
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 21
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 22
- 30
- 31
- June 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 22
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 23
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 24
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 25
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- July 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 26
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 27
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 28
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 29
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 30
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
- August 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 31
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 32
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 33
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 34
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 35
- 29
- 30
- 31
- September 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 35
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 36
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 37
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 38
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 39
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- October 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 39
- 1
- 2
- 40
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 41
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 42
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 43
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 44
- 31
- November 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 44
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 45
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
- 13
- 46
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 47
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- 48
- 28
- 29
- 30
- December 2022
- Mo
- Tu
- We
- Th
- Fr
- Sa
- Su
- 48
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 49
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 50
- 12
- 13
- 14
- 15
- 16
- 17
- 18
- 51
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 52
- 26
- 27
- 28
- 29
- 30
- 31
§ Non-working days in Germany in 2022
For information about holidays in Germany for other years, go to the German calendar and change the year.
Working hours in Germany are set from Monday to Saturday, so Sunday in Germany is an official non-working day. However, many people in Germany work 5 days a week, so Saturday is also a day off for them. In addition, public holidays established by law are non-working days in Germany. Some of these days fall on Saturday and Sunday, others - on weekdays. Besides, in a number of lands(federated states) or regions of Germany, the law establishes additional public holidays.
The following list shows the number of Saturdays and Sundays and official public holidays in the German calendar 2022.
The number of days off in Germany in 2022.
Days off | Number |
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The number of Saturdays per year | 53 |
Sundays per year | 52 |
The number of official all-German holidays, total | 11 |
The number of official all-German holidays, falling not on Sunday | 7 |
The number of official all-German holidays, falling neither on Saturday or Sunday | 6 |
Additional holidays, depending on land of Germany see below in the holidays schedule | from 0 to 8 |
Thus, in 2022 Germany has 111 days off, including all Saturdays, Sundays and official German holidays that do not fall either on Saturdays or Sundays. Depending on the land of Germany, this number can be at most by 8 days more.
§ Schedule of public holidays in Germany
The following table shows the schedule of public holidays in Germany, indicating the regions in which this holiday is a day off.
To view all the popular and religious holidays in Germany, go to an individual page of our site.
Schedule of public holidays in Germany
Date | The name of the holiday | Lands, regions |
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1 January 2022 Saturday 52 KW | New Year's Day Neujahrstag | Nationwide holiday |
6 January 2022 Thursday 01 KW | Twelfth-day Heilige Drei Könige | Valid only in lands: - Baden-Württemberg, - Bavaria, - Saxony-Anhalt |
8 March 2022 Tuesday 10 KW | International Women's Day Internationaler Frauentag | Valid only in lands: - Berlin |
15 April 2022 Friday 15 KW | Good Friday Karfreitag | Nationwide holiday |
17 April 2022 Sunday 15 KW | Easter Ostern | Nationwide holiday |
18 April 2022 Monday 16 KW | Easter Monday Ostermontag | Nationwide holiday |
1 May 2022 Sunday 17 KW | Labor Day, May 1 1. Mai | Nationwide holiday |
26 May 2022 Thursday 21 KW | Ascension of Christ Christi Himmelfahrt | Nationwide holiday |
5 June 2022 Sunday 22 KW | Pentecost Pfingstsonntag | Nationwide holiday |
6 June 2022 Monday 23 KW | Pentecost, 2nd day Pfingstmontag | Nationwide holiday |
16 June 2022 Thursday 24 KW | Corpus Christi Fronleichnam | Valid only in lands: - Baden-Württemberg, - Bavaria, - Hesse, - North Rhine-Westphalia, - Rhineland-Palatinate, - Saarland |
8 August 2022 Monday 32 KW | Augsburg Peace Festival Augsburger Friedensfest | Valid only in lands: - Bavaria only in Augsburg |
15 August 2022 Monday 33 KW | Assumption of the Virgin Mary Mariä Himmelfahrt | Valid only in lands: - Bavaria, - Saarland |
3 October 2022 Monday 40 KW | German Unity Day Tag der Deutschen Einheit | Nationwide holiday |
31 October 2022 Monday 44 KW | Reformation Day Reformationstag | Valid only in lands: - Brandenburg, - Hamburg, - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, - Saxony, - Saxony-Anhalt, - Schleswig-Holstein, - Thuringia |
1 November 2022 Tuesday 44 KW | All Saints' Day Allerheiligen | Valid only in lands: - Baden-Württemberg, - Bavaria, - North Rhine-Westphalia, - Rhineland-Palatinate, - Saarland |
16 November 2022 Wednesday 46 KW | Day of Prayer and Repentance Buß- und Bettag | Valid only in lands: - Saxony |
25 December 2022 Sunday 51 KW | Christmas Weihnachten | Nationwide holiday |
26 December 2022 Monday 52 KW | The 2nd day of Christmas 2. Weihnachtstag | Nationwide holiday |
View the whole table: all holidays in Germany.
§
In the list below you will find the schedule of the upcoming school vacations in Germany. To view the schedule of all school vacations: autumn, spring, summer, winter, Christmas, as well as on holidays, go to the calendars of holidays and school vacations in the lands of Germany.
Information about school vacations is provided in accordance with the data of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Lands (Kultusministerkonferenz). Some scheduled school vacation dates could be changed. Most actual information can be obtained from the Lands School Boardd (corresponding links in the calendars by state/land).
Schedule of school vacations in Germany
Christmas holidays/ vacation (Weihnachtsferien)
- from 22.12.2021 till 08.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Saxony-Anhalt
- from 23.12.2021 till 01.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Saxony
- from 23.12.2021 till 03.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Saarland
- from 23.12.2021 till 04.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Hamburg
- from 23.12.2021 till 07.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Lower Saxony
- from 23.12.2021 till 08.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein
- from 24.12.2021 till 08.01.2022 Christmas holidays/ vacation in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia
Winter vacations (Winterferien)
- from 28.01.2022 till 28.01.2022 Winter vacations in Hamburg
- from 29.01.2022 till 05.02.2022 Winter vacations in Berlin
- from 31.01.2022 till 01.02.2022 Winter vacations in Lower Saxony, Bremen
- from 31.01.2022 till 05.02.2022 Winter vacations in Brandenburg
- from 05.02.2022 till 18.02.2022 Winter vacations in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- from 12.02.2022 till 19.02.2022 Winter vacations in Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia
- from 12.02.2022 till 26.02.2022 Winter vacations in Saxony
- from 21.02.2022 till 25.02.2022 Winter vacations in Rhineland-Palatinate
- from 21.02.2022 till 01.03.2022 Winter vacations in Saarland
- from 28.02.2022 till 04.03.2022 Winter vacations in Bavaria
Spring break (Osterferien/Frühjahrferien)
- from 07.03.2022 till 18.03.2022 Spring break in Hamburg
- from 04.04.2022 till 16.04.2022 Spring break in Schleswig-Holstein
- from 04.04.2022 till 19.04.2022 Spring break in Bremen, Lower Saxony
- from 11.04.2022 till 16.04.2022 Spring break in Saxony-Anhalt
- from 11.04.2022 till 20.04.2022 Spring break in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- from 11.04.2022 till 23.04.2022 Spring break in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Berlin, Hesse, Brandenburg, Thuringia
- from 13.04.2022 till 22.04.2022 Spring break in Rhineland-Palatinate
- from 14.04.2022 till 22.04.2022 Spring break in Saarland
- from 15.04.2022 till 23.04.2022 Spring break in Saxony
- from 19.04.2022 till 23.04.2022 Spring break in Baden-Württemberg
Ascension holidays (Himmelfahrt/Pfingstferien)
- from 23.05.2022 till 27.05.2022 Ascension holidays in Hamburg
- from 23.05.2022 till 28.05.2022 Ascension holidays in Saxony-Anhalt
- from 27.05.2022 till 27.05.2022 Ascension holidays in Saxony, Thuringia
- from 27.05.2022 till 28.05.2022 Ascension holidays in Schleswig-Holstein
- from 03.06.2022 till 07.06.2022 Ascension holidays in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- from 07.06.2022 till 07.06.2022 Ascension holidays in Berlin, Lower Saxony, Bremen
- from 07.06.2022 till 10.06.2022 Ascension holidays in Saarland
- from 07.06.2022 till 18.06.2022 Ascension holidays in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria
Summer vacations (Sommerferien)
- from 27.06.2022 till 09.08.2022 Summer vacations in North Rhine-Westphalia
- from 04.07.2022 till 13.08.2022 Summer vacations in Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- from 07.07.2022 till 17.08.2022 Summer vacations in Hamburg
- from 07.07.2022 till 19.08.2022 Summer vacations in Berlin
- from 07.07.2022 till 20.08.2022 Summer vacations in Brandenburg
- from 14.07.2022 till 24.08.2022 Summer vacations in Bremen, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
- from 18.07.2022 till 26.08.2022 Summer vacations in Saxony
- from 18.07.2022 till 27.08.2022 Summer vacations in Thuringia
- from 25.07.2022 till 02.09.2022 Summer vacations in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland
- from 28.07.2022 till 10.09.2022 Summer vacations in Baden-Württemberg
- from 01.08.2022 till 12.09.2022 Summer vacations in Bavaria
Autumn vacations (Herbstferien)
- from 04.10.2022 till 15.10.2022 Autumn vacations in North Rhine-Westphalia
- from 10.10.2022 till 14.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- from 10.10.2022 till 21.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein
- from 17.10.2022 till 28.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Lower Saxony
- from 17.10.2022 till 29.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Bremen, Saxony, Thuringia
- from 17.10.2022 till 31.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Rhineland-Palatinate
- from 24.10.2022 till 29.10.2022 Autumn vacations in Hesse
- from 24.10.2022 till 04.11.2022 Autumn vacations in Saxony-Anhalt, Saarland
- from 24.10.2022 till 05.11.2022 Autumn vacations in Berlin, Brandenburg
- from 31.10.2022 till 04.11.2022 Autumn vacations in Bavaria
- from 02.11.2022 till 04.11.2022 Autumn vacations in Baden-Württemberg
§ Information about popular holidays in Germany
To view complete information on/ about the state/ public as well as unofficial popular and religious holidays in Germany, go to the table with the information about holidays in Germany. In the table you will find the dates, customs, origin of the holidays, as well as popular greetings and wishes for the holidays.
- Holidays in Germany in January
- Holidays in Germany in February
- Holidays in Germany in March
- Holidays in Germany in April
- Holidays in Germany in May
- Holidays in Germany in June
- Holidays in Germany in July
- Holidays in Germany in August
- Holidays in Germany in September
- Holidays in Germany in October
- Holidays in Germany in November
- Holidays in Germany in December
However, note that in Germany, besides popular and generally accepted holidays, there are also many local domestic holidays, for example, holidays of cities, large enterprises and organizations, even holidays of streets or city districts. In addition, there are traditional holidays held in connection with the harvest of cherries, pumpkins and other fruits or vegetables, annual fairs and so on. Such holidays are noisy and merry, but they do not have fixed dates and are set annually by the organizers of the holidays. Information on holding such celebrations can be found on the Internet on the sites of the cities, districts or companies that are of interest to you.
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