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Germanic traditions, notable events, festivals, special days and national holidays in Germany. Germans take pride in their traditional celebrations whether they are patriotic such as Tag der deutschen Einheit or Day of German Unity, religiously based such as Allerheiligen or All Saints and Allerseelen or All Souls, well known holidays such as Weihnachten - Christmas and Ostern - Easter, more personal events such as weddings, birthdays, and funerals, or large public events like the well known Oktoberfest.

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National traditions, public holidays and notable observances for 2024-2025 year

June 2024

Monday 3 June - European Bicycle Day (celebrated since 1998)

Tuesday 4 June - Days of Action for Sustainable Development in Germany (launched by the Sustainable Development Council in 2012 at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro)

Thursday 6 June - Wismar Harbor Days; German Visually Impaired Day; Culture City Festival in Dillingen; Kawa Festival

Friday 7 June - 48h Wilhelmsburg; Rock am Ring (starts on the first Friday in June and runs all weekend long); Strawberry Festival in Mainz-Gonsenheim; Hive Festival; Regensburg Citizens' Festival; St. Wendel Town Festival; Freiberg US Car Meeting

Saturday 8 June - Night of the Museums in Hanover; Marine Conservation City Day in Kiel; Festival in the Vogelviertel

Sunday 9 June - MoGo or motorcycle service in Hamburg's Michel church (Motorradgottesdienst Starts on Sunday of the second week of June)

Tuesday 11 June - International Day of the Caregiver

Thursday 13 June - Freiberg Mining Festival

Friday 14 June - Traunstein Rose Days; Waderner Maad; Blieskastel Old Town Festival; Krämerbrücken Festival; Organic Field Day; Stade Old Town Festival; Limo-Disco in Freiberg

Saturday 15 June - Vierländer Strawberry Festival (Starts on the third Saturday in June); Deisterstraße Festival (Hannover); Garlic Land Festival

Monday 17 June - Day of remembrance of the popular uprising in the GDR

Tuesday 18 June - International Day for Combating Hate Speech; MINT-MACHEN-Festival in Magdeburg; SWR Dokufestival

Wednesday 19 June - Long Table of the Intergenerational Dialogue in Hanover (takes place on the 80th day after Easter); Hofen Summer Festival

Thursday 20 June - Memorial Day for Victims of Flight and Exile in Germany (since 2015); Campus Festival in Dresden; Campus Festival Bielefeld

Friday 21 June - Sleep Day in Germany (Tag des Schlafes); Ebbelwoi Festival in Langen; Make Music Day (Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 1,000 cities in 120 countries); Hurricane Festival; Osthafenfest in Saarbrücken; Love Music Festival in Magdeburg; Pirate Action OpenAir Theater in Grevesmühlen; Southside Festival

Saturday 22 June - Telemann Summer Festival; Kiel Week; Leonberg Summer Show; Forest Festival in Höfingen; Leonberg Cycling Action Day

Sunday 23 June - Three Bridges Run Mainz

Monday 24 June - Whit Monday according to Eastern Christian tradition; International Day of Women in Diplomacy

Wednesday 26 June - Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany); Fusion Festival

Thursday 27 June - Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany); Studi Festival Siegen; Filmnächte am Elbufer in Dresden

Friday 28 June - Daimler Day; Hanover Shooting Festival (The ten-day event begins on the last Friday in June); Theelfest in Lebach; Elbhangfest (Pillnitzer Landstraße, Loschwitz, Wachwitz, Pillnitz); Karlsfeld Settlers' Festival

Saturday 29 June - Architecture and Engineering Day in Hamburg; Summer Festival «Summer in the City» (Bergheim); Neunkirchen Town Festival

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July 2024

Monday 1 July - Day against anti-Muslim racism

Tuesday 2 July - Commemoration of the Sivas massacre

Wednesday 3 July - Breminale; Rockharz Festival

Thursday 4 July - Heinerfest in Darmstadt

Friday 5 July - Würzburg Kiliani folk festival; Royal Wine Festival Potsdam (Conducted from Friday of the first full week of July); Duddelfest in Mainz-Lerchenberg (the colorful festival of the generations begins on the first Friday in July); Ingobertus Festival in St. Ingbert; Orange Sun Festival; Homburg-Jägersburg Beach Festival; Long Night in Stade

Saturday 6 July - Bochum Total; Warnemünde Week (starts on the first Saturday in July); Wine Festival in the Kirchenstück (Mainz-Hechtsheim); Lantern Festival in Dillingen; Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Sunday 7 July - Ratha Yatra (Held on the second day of Shukla Pakshi of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha)

Wednesday 10 July - Beatles Day; Little Festival in the Great Garden (Hanover)

Thursday 11 July - Bike Week in Willingen; Happiness Festival in Straubenhardt

Friday 12 July - Hochheim Wine Festival (It starts on the second Friday in July); Weisenauer Kerb in Mainz-Weisenau; Wine Festival in Mainz-Ebersheim; Saarbrücken Old Town Festival; Gourmet Festival in Mönchengladbach; Webenheim Farmers' Festival, Blieskastel; International Samba Festival Coburg; Cantiere Internationale d'Arte in Montepulciano; Cheese meets Wine Fest in Kiel; Summer Party Essen; Ulm Folk Festival

Saturday 13 July - International Conductor's Day; Lighthouse Swim - Open Water Kiel; Festival Day Dänische Straße in Kiel; Kleve Funfair

Wednesday 17 July - Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Thursday 18 July - The festival in Karlsruhe (in recent years it starts on the third Thursday in July); Stade Winegrowers' Festival; Jazzopen Stuttgart

Friday 19 July - Spielbudenfestival (In recent years, the competition has started on the Friday of the third full week in July); Vine Blossom Festival in the park in Mainz-Laubenheim; Steinfurth Rose Festival; Überherrn Borderland Festival; Travemünde Week; Kiel Boat Harbour Summer

Saturday 20 July - Memorial Day on July 20, 1944 in Germany (this was one of the most important attempts of resistance during the period of National Socialism by the nobility and the administration); Street Mag Show Hannover (starts on Saturday of the third full week in July); Dresden Castle Night (parks of Albrechtsberg Castle, Eckberg Castle, Lingnerschloss and Saloppe); Leonberg Vaulting Tournament

Sunday 21 July - Hohentwielfestival Singen; Singen Castle Festival (Hohentwiel)

Monday 22 July - Schwörwoche and Fischerstechen in Ulm (A celebration of tradition and cohesion); Kirkel Castle Summer

Thursday 25 July - HOA Festival or Headbangers Open Air

Friday 26 July - Wine festival in Werder; Summer Night Wine Festival in Wetzlar; Wine Festival in Dietzenbach; SNNTG Festival; Zugvögel Festival; Rock of Ages Festival; Wine Festival at Bucherbach Castle (Püttlingen-Köllerbach); Spiesen-Elversberg Funfair; Eltinger Wengerterfest; Warmbronner Open Air; Summer Dome in Hamburg

Saturday 27 July - Vegan Street Festival Hamburg (It takes place on the last Saturday in July); French Market Festival in Neuwied; Bostalsee Lake Festival; Summer Music Days Hitzacker

Sunday 28 July - UNESCO Recognition Day in Mainz (Old Jewish Cemetery Judensand); Stuttgart Flamenco Festival

Wednesday 31 July - Maschsee Festival Hanover; Rockstadt Extreme Fest; Wacken Open Air Festival (The biggest heavy metal festival worldwide)

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August 2024

Thursday 1 August - Rhenish Fishing Festival Gernsheim

Friday 2 August - Mainfest in Frankfurt am Main; European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma; Hanover Street Food & Music Festival; Fährmannsfest Hanover; Sticky Fingers Festival; Freisen Medieval Market; Schmelz-Bettingen Funfair; Kurparkfest in Weiskirchen; Moritzburg Festival; Wesel City Festival; Annentag in Brakel

Saturday 3 August - International Festival Maritim (Starts the first weekend of August); Zissel: Kassel's folk and water festival; Court Festival in Bad Camberg; Kirchweihfest in Mainz-Gonsenheim (1st weekend in August); Ziegelhütte District Festival, Ottweiler; Pirna Court Night (Pirna Old Town)

Wednesday 7 August - Husum Harbour Days

Thursday 8 August - Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany; The Hanse Sail in Rostock (Typically begins on Thursday of the first full week of August)

Friday 9 August - Gäubodenfest Straubing; Wiesbaden Rheingau Wine Week; Bretzenheimer Kerb; Cider Festival in Frankfurt (starts on Friday of the second week of August); Bernemer Kerb; SonneMondSterne Festival; Viking Days in Schleswig; Street Food Festival in Singen

Saturday 10 August - Festival of Lights in Bad Wildungen; M'era Luna Festival; Pyro Games Magdeburg (duel of the fireworks)

Sunday 11 August - Sons and Daughters Day in Germany (The Der Tag der Söhne und Töchter a family holiday and a good time to spend time together)

Monday 12 August - Tisha beAV

Tuesday 13 August - Memorial Day on the tragedy of the Berlin Wall in Germany (its construction was completed in 1961)

Thursday 15 August - Feast day of the Assumption of Mary (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu); Dachau Folk Festival

Friday 16 August - European Elvis Festival; Celebration of the devotion to Hünkar Bektas¸ Veli; Mombach Rhine Festival; Draiser Kerb; Dresden City Festival; Echelon Festival

Saturday 17 August - The Bremen Music Festival (Begins on the third Saturday in August); Rengesfest in Schmelz; Schmaus in Beckingen; Malle Festival in Magdeburg

Sunday 18 August - Tu B'Av in Israel (lit. 'fifteenth of Av', hebrew- ט"וּ באב - is a minor Jewish holiday. In modern-day Israel, it is celebrated as a holiday of love

Monday 19 August - Raksha Bandhan

Thursday 22 August - Bamberg Sandkerwa; Osterstraße Wine Festival, Hamburg (starts on the fourth Thursday in August); International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Violence Due to Religion or Belief (International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief - established since May 28, 2019 - UN A/RES/73/296)

Friday 23 August - Regensburg Dult (Held twice a year, in May and in August - early September); Frankfurt Museumsuferfest (takes place from the fourth Friday in August); Hessian Blues-, Schmus- & Applesauce Festival in Laubach; Lantern Festival in Germany; Funhouse Festival; Bielefeld Pig Market

Saturday 24 August - Uhlenhorst District Festival, Hamburg (Starts on the fourth Saturday of August); Guild Market in Bad Wimpfen; Vogteifest in Burbach; Feuertal Festival in Wuppertal; MAMF in Stade (Must all attend festival)

Wednesday 28 August - Rheingau Wine Market (takes place on the last Wednesday in August); Day of the Russian Germans

Thursday 29 August - Gillamoos Abensberg; Mainz Wine Market

Friday 30 August - Erding Autumn Festival; Town Festival with flower festival in Bad Wildungen; Bridge festival and bridge run in Wetzlar; Hechtsheimer Kerb; Berger Mrket with Town Clerk Festival; Wine Time in Saarbrücken; Hokus Pokus Festival; Baltic Sea in Flames - Grömitz (fireworks); Borghorst Pig Market

Saturday 31 August - Rosenheim Autumn Festival; Family Day in Hamburg (Celebrated on the last Saturday in August); Bergstrasse Winegrowers' Festival Bensheim; Olvenstedt Summer Festival

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September 2024

Sunday 1 September - World Peace Day in Germany (since 1966); Day of the Homeland in Germany (Tag der Heimat); World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation; Beginning of the Orthodox Church Year; Seniors' Summer Festival in Mainz; Friedrichsort Lighthouse Festival; Intercultural Week in Erfurt

Tuesday 3 September - European Bike Week (Begins the first Tuesday in September and runs through the end of the week); Heritage Days in Erfurt

Thursday 5 September - Erfurt Wine Festival

Friday 6 September - Laubach Autumn Magic Festival; Kerb in the park (Mainz-Laubenheim); Ebersheim Kerb; Intercultural Week in Mainz; Hechtsheim Winegrowers' Days; Autumn Dippemess; Kulturbrücke Festival in Magdeburg; Handicraft Market in Grömitz; Leonberg Equestrian Games

Saturday 7 September - National Coffee Day in Germany (Celebrated on the first Saturday in September); Ganesha Festival; Mainz Science Market; NOK Romantika; Alpenrock at Schaumberg; Freiberg Night Shift

Sunday 8 September - Open Monument Day in Germany (Held on the second Sunday in September); Allgäu cattle drive; Nativity of the Virgin Mary; Discovery Day in Hanover; Intercultural Festival in Mainz; Citadel Festival in Mainz

Thursday 12 September - Ecological and Social Market Economy Day in Germany (since 2000); Rheingau Literature Festival (The ten-day event begins the second Thursday in September); Feelings of Happiness Festival at the Hockenheimring

Friday 13 September - Kerb in Borner Grund (Mainz-Marienborn); Finther Kerb; Bonn Street Food Festival; Handmade Markets im Kappeln; Erfurt Cereal Market - Perennial and Garden Market; Schmelz-Hüttersdorf Fair

Sunday 15 September - World Children's Festival in Planten un Blomen (takes place on the third Sunday in September); Bad Homburg Apple Day (Held on the third Sunday in September); Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross; The Prophet's Birthday or Mawleed al Nabi (or Mawlid al-Nabi. There is not a single verse in the Qur'an OR a Hadith of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) forbidding the celebration of Prophet's birthday); Jürmker Autumn Market in Bielefeld

Wednesday 18 September - Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg; Stade Training Fair

Thursday 19 September - Stade Autumn Market

Friday 20 September - Universal Children's Day in Germany; World Children's Day in Thuringia, Germany (an official holiday since 2019); Rail Day in Germany (begins on the third Friday in September); The Princely Garden Festival at Wolfsgarten Castle (The three-day event begins the third Friday in September); Kite Festival on Kronsberg; Erfurt Oktoberfest

Saturday 21 September - Munich Oktoberfest; Night of the Churches Hamburg (the event was launched in 2003); Steinau Puppetry Festival; Day of Prayer in Cologne; World Children's Day in Mainz (Starts on Saturday of the third full week of September); Oktoberfest

Sunday 22 September - Intercultural Week in Germany (Begins on the fourth Sunday in September); Stade Wedding Fair

Wednesday 25 September - Dental Health Day in Germany

Thursday 26 September - Mainz Shines - the Late Light Festival

Friday 27 September - European Researchers' Night; German Butterbrot Day (Tag des Deutschen Butterbrots); The Cannstatter Volksfest (Held for two weeks starting on the fourth Friday in September); Farmers' market and wine festival at Tibarg in Hamburg (The three-day event begins on the fourth Friday in September); Kassel Autumn Magic Festival, Germany (Begins on Friday of the last full week of September); Schildesche Abbey Market

Saturday 28 September - Gebersheim Bakehouse Festival

Sunday 29 September - Fürth Kärwa in Franconia

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October 2024

Tuesday 1 October - Siemens Day

Thursday 3 October - Open Mosque Day in Germany (since 1997); German Unity Day (Germany)

Friday 4 October - Emperor Otto Festival or Kaiser Otto Fest, Magdeburg; Farmers' and Regional Market in Kiel

Saturday 5 October - Merzig Viezfest

Sunday 6 October - Thanksgiving Day in Germany (Held on the first Sunday in October); Autumn festival with children's suitcase flea market, Freiberg; German-American Day

Monday 7 October - World Day of Action for Decent Work

Thursday 10 October - Day of remembrance of Saint Hüseyin

Friday 11 October - Hannover Wiesn (starts on Friday of the second week of October); Fair in St. Ingbert; Glückstalertage Bielefeld

Saturday 12 October - Dashahara; Hanover Zoo Festival; Fair in Ottweiler-Lautenbach

Sunday 13 October - Grandmothers' Day in Germany (Second Sunday in October)

Wednesday 16 October - Frankfurt Book Fair (Starts on the third Wednesday of October); International Pronouns Day; Wendel Fair

Friday 18 October - Federweißen Days in Rüdesheim am Rhein

Saturday 19 October - Fair in Ottweiler-Fürth

Sunday 20 October - Festival of the Sikh Holy Book

Tuesday 22 October - Austrian Sparkling Wine Day

Thursday 24 October - Library Day in Germany and South Tyrol (in Germany since 1995, South Tyrol - since 2009); Bavarian Dentists' Day (Beginning on Thursday of the fourth week of October)

Friday 25 October - Rheinhessen Wine Forum in Mainz

Saturday 26 October - Intersex Awareness Day; Fête de la Gastronomie in Mainz

Sunday 27 October - Coat Sunday in Mainz

Tuesday 29 October - International Day of Care and Support

Thursday 31 October - Reformation Day (Slovenia, parts of Germany, Chile, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, various Protestant churches with a particular emphasis in Lutheran and Reformed ones); Allhallowtide (The first day of Allhallowtide, observed until November 6 in Western Christianity)

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November 2024

Saturday 2 November - All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion); Mainz Book Fair; Kiel's Sea of Lights

Sunday 3 November - International Day for Biosphere Reserves; World Men's Day in Germany

Tuesday 5 November - World Romani Language Day

Friday 8 November - Hochheim Market; Intersex Day of Remembrance

Saturday 9 November - Schicksalstag (Germany); Inventors' Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Sunday 10 November - Martinisingen (Germany)

Monday 11 November - Opening of carnival ("Karneval"/"Fasching", on 11-11, at 11:11. Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries); Proclamation of the Foolish Basic Law in Mainz

Friday 15 November - European Dystonia Day; National Reading Aloud Day in Germany; Stadtwerke Ice Festival

Sunday 17 November - National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag in Germany (Date for 2024. Observed two Sundays before the first of Advent)

Tuesday 19 November - National Soup Day in Germany

Wednesday 20 November - General Day of Repentance and Prayer in Germany (Held on the Wednesday before the last Sunday of the church year); Transgender Day of Remembrance; Made in Germany Festival

Friday 22 November - Musician's Day

Saturday 23 November - European Day of Homelessness; Advent market in Mainz-Ebersheim

Sunday 24 November - Sunday of the Dead in Germany

Monday 25 November - Kiel Christmas Market; Stade Christmas Market

Tuesday 26 November - Erfurt Christmas Market

Wednesday 27 November - Striezelmarkt in Dresden

Thursday 28 November - Mainz Christmas market at the cathedral

Friday 29 November - Old German Christmas market in Bad Wimpfen (It begins on Friday and runs through the first three weekends of Advent); Blue Christmas Miracle Lorsch; Steinau Christmas Market; Mombach Advent Market

Saturday 30 November - Hamburg Christmas Parade (takes place every year on all four Advent Saturdays); Finther Advent Market; St. Nicholas Market in Drais; St. Nicholas parade and Christmas market in Marienborn; Advent Market in Gonsenheim and Laubenheim; Leonberg Advent Market

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December 2024

Sunday 1 December - Advent Sunday (Western Christianity); Advent get-together - Lerchenberg lights up for Christmas; Advent market in Hartenberg - Münchfeld

Monday 2 December - World Futures Day

Wednesday 4 December - St. Barbara's Day in Germany

Thursday 5 December - Baden-Württemberg Youth Film Award

Saturday 7 December - Advent market in Bretzenheim

Sunday 8 December - The Second Sunday of Advent (is the third last Sunday before Christmas Day); Bodhi Day in Japan; Advent Market in Bielefeld

Saturday 14 December - Hechtsheim Christmas Market

Sunday 15 December - 3rd Advent

Sunday 22 December - 4th Advent

Wednesday 25 December - Rough nights; Christmas Day

Thursday 26 December - St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Andorra, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland); Second day of Christmas (Western Christianity. Public holiday in the Netherlands, Poland, Norway)

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January 2025

Thursday 2 January - Waldmännchentag or Forest Festival in Germany; Deutsche Telekom Day

Saturday 4 January - World Braille Day (UN 1 November 2018 A/C.3/73/L.5/Rev.1)

Sunday 5 January - Birth of Guru Gobind Singh (The occasion is celebrated by Sikhs and Sikh diasporas all over the world)

Monday 6 January - Epiphany Cake in Germany

Tuesday 7 January - World Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day

Saturday 11 January - German Apples Day (Tag des Deutschen Apfels)

Saturday 18 January - World Snowman Day

Tuesday 21 January - European Day of Mediation

Wednesday 22 January - Franco-German Day

Saturday 25 January - The bird wedding (is an annual custom known in some European regions, but especially in the Sorbs in Lusatia. Here it is called Lower Sorbian Ptaškowa swajźba and Upper Sorbian Ptači kwas)

Sunday 26 January - Day of Remembrance for the arson attack on a municipal refugee shelter in Cologne-Gremberg

Monday 27 January - Memorial Day for the Victims of National Socialism in Germany (held since 1996)

Tuesday 28 January - European Data Protection Day (initiated by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)

Wednesday 29 January - International Car Day

Friday 31 January - Currywurst Festival in Neuwied

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February 2025

Sunday 2 February - Candlemas (Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Western Christianity); Festival of Saraswati

Wednesday 5 February - Allianz Day

Tuesday 11 February - European 112 Day (emergency call services)

Thursday 13 February - Night of Redemption

Friday 14 February - Valentine’s Day

Thursday 20 February - Rheingau Gourmet and Wine Festival

Friday 21 February - Biikebrennen in North Friesland, Germany (St. Peter's Day Eve. The annual festival dates back to the Middle Ages and now attracts the first tourists)

Saturday 22 February - European Day for Equal Pay Men and Women; Stork Day in Haslach im Kinzigtal (When the streets become a children's paradise)

Thursday 27 February - The Fools' Court in Stockach (political spectacle for 660 years); Weiberfastnacht in Germany (Held on the Thursday before Lent)

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March 2025

Saturday 1 March - Carnival Parade in Germany

Sunday 2 March - Fastelavn in Denmark and Norway (day on which Shrove Monday can fall)

Monday 3 March - Rosenmontag in Germany (Conducted the day before Ash Wednesday)

Tuesday 4 March - Shrove Tuesday in Germany (also known as Carnival Tuesday, Fasnets-Zeisdig, Veilchendienstag, Fasnacht Tuesday or Fastnachtsdienstag or Narrenkirchweih)

Friday 7 March - BMW Day (BMW Group); World Day of Prayer; Equal Pay Day in Germany

Saturday 8 March - Eberbach Wild Garlic Days

Thursday 13 March - World Riesling Day (The First Annual Riesling Birthday was celebrated in 2019)

Friday 14 March - Phaghwa (or Holi Phagwa is considered as the famous Hindu spring festival and has got many names as per the region and the community like its knwon as Phaghwa in Bhojpuri and in west Bengal, it is known as Dolyatra)

Sunday 16 March - Heribert von Köln in Germany (German Archbishop, from 999 to 1021 was Archbishop of the Cologne Archdiocese)

Monday 17 March - Anniversary of the FRG-Portugal recruitment agreement

Tuesday 18 March - Memorial Day for the March Revolution of 1848 in Germany

Friday 21 March - Hamburger Dom (folk festival)

Saturday 22 March - Technorama Kassel

Sunday 23 March - Spring festival of Wilstedt traders with flea market (starts on the fourth Sunday in March)

Tuesday 25 March - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary

Friday 28 March - Berlin Spring Festival (begins on the Friday of the last full week in March)

Sunday 30 March - The Heidelberg Summer Day procession (a spectacle at the turn of the seasons)

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April 2025

Saturday 5 April - Irish Folk Festival, Magdeburg

Sunday 6 April - Night of Destiny

Tuesday 8 April - Hana Matsuri in Japan

Friday 11 April - Spring Dippemess (It begins the week before Easter according to Western tradition)

Wednesday 16 April - Yazidi New Year

Thursday 17 April - Maundy Thursday (Christian tradition. Supper of Jesus Christ with his disciples before his cross suffering)

Friday 18 April - Ostermünde (Brügmanngarten Travemünde); Good Friday

Saturday 19 April - Holy Saturday; Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943; Streetfood Festival at Easter in Bad Zwischenahn (Starts on Holy Saturday, lasts 3 days); Hanover Spring Festival; Homburg Easter Fair

Sunday 20 April - Easter in Western Christianity (Første påskedag in Norway); Augsburg Plärrer (Held twice a year - in the spring from Easter Sunday and in late summer from the end of August); Ridwan Day in Iraq (in Islamic angelology, Ridwan is the guardian of Paradise and the head of the host of guardian angels of Paradise. Literally translated “satisfied, pleased.” It is not mentioned in the Qur'an and Tafsir, but is mentioned in the earlier hadiths describing Paradise); Easter

Monday 21 April - Easter Monday (Påskedag in Norway)

Wednesday 23 April - German Beer Day in Germany; Saint George's Day

Thursday 24 April - Girls' Day and Boys' Day in Germany

Friday 25 April - Arbor Day in Germany; Parental Alienation Awareness Day (Parental alienation is a problem that most people don't know about. It is child abuse and needs to be stopped.); Passauer Dult (in spring it starts on the Friday of the last week of April, in fall on the Friday of the second week of September); Munich Spring Festival (begins on the Friday of the third full week in April); May Festival in Saarbrücken; Hexentanz Festival; Street Food Festival in Recklinghausen; Dresden Spring Market

Saturday 26 April - Tertullian Day (was a prolific early Christian author from Carthage in the Roman province of Africa. Of Berber origin he was the first Christian author to produce an extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature. Tertullian has been called "the father of Latin Christianity" and "the founder of Western theology."); Töchter-Tag or Daughter's Day in Hamburg, Germany (The Youth Education Association became the initiator in Hamburg. The idea is to introduce girls to technical professions); International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April); Tree blossom festival in Werder an der Havel (It starts on the fourth Saturday in April); Bergsträßer Weinfrühling (begins on the Saturday of the third full week in April); Warnemünde Spring Walk (opening of the season); International A cappella Week Hanover (Begins on Saturday of the last full week of April); Stuttgart Spring Festival (begins on the Saturday of the third full week in April); Freisen Medieval Market

Sunday 27 April - Game Designers' Day; Hamburg Marathon; White Sunday (It falls on the next Sunday after Easter); Hanover Cherry Blossom Festival (Begins on Sunday of the third full week of April); Spring Sunday Shopping in Mainz

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May 2025

Thursday 1 May - International May Festival Wiesbaden; May Beetle Meeting; International May Day Faust Festival; Saarbrücken Courtyard Parties; May Festival at Siersberg Castle, Rehlingen-Siersburg; Schattentriescher Fair in Schmelz; Dresden Fleet Parade (start of the Saxon Steam Navigation season); Thai Street Food Festival in Hamburg; International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Friday 2 May - Spring Market at Gut Basthorst; Lingen Spring Fair; Spring Fair or Frühjahrsdult in Landshut

Saturday 3 May - Altländer Blossom Festival in Jork; Art and Street Food Weekend Ladenburg; Minden May Fair

Sunday 4 May - Deister Day; Gutenberg Half Marathon Mainz

Tuesday 6 May - OMR Festival in Hamburg

Thursday 8 May - Anniversary of the liberation from National Socialism

Friday 9 May - Europe Day (is the name of two annual observance days, 5 May by the Council of Europe and 9 May by the European Union, which recognize the peace and prosperity within Europe that both have achieved since their formation); Brothers Grimm Festival in Hanau

Saturday 10 May - Book Day in Germany; Dillingen Arts and Crafts Market; Fair in Schmelz-Michelbach; Herb Weeks on Western Lake Constance

Sunday 11 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints; International Dixieland Festival Dresden (starts on the second Sunday in May, but sometimes the date can vary); Genusszeit in Saarbrücken (starts on the second Sunday in May)

Friday 16 May - Erlangen Bergkirchweih; Schlossgrabenfest (begins the Thursday before Trinity)