Holiday Calendar for Germany

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

Tuesday 4 November - euro-scene Leipzig - Festival of contemporary European theater

Wednesday 5 November - World Romani Language Day; All Saints' Fair in Soest

Friday 7 November - Hochheim Market; Osnabrück Autumn Fair; Winter Dome Hamburg

Saturday 8 November - Intersex Day of Remembrance; Dynamite Ska Festival in Leipzig; Zetel Market; St. Martin's Market in Nottuln

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

Monday 10 November - Martinisingen (Germany); World Orphans Day

Tuesday 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

Saturday 15 November - European Dystonia Day; Stadtwerke Ice Festival

Sunday 16 November - National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag in Germany (Observed two Sundays before the first of Advent)

Wednesday 19 November - National Soup Day in Germany; Made in Germany Festival; French Film Festival in Leipzig

Thursday 20 November - Transgender Day of Remembrance

Friday 21 November - National Reading Aloud Day in Germany

Saturday 22 November - Musician's Day; Advent market in Mainz-Ebersheim

Sunday 23 November - European Day of Homelessness; Sunday of the Dead in Germany

Monday 24 November - Kiel Christmas Market; Stade Christmas Market

Tuesday 25 November - Erfurt Christmas Market; Freiberg Christmas Market

Wednesday 26 November - General Day of Repentance and Prayer in Germany (Held on the Wednesday before the last Sunday of the church year)

Thursday 27 November - Mainz Christmas market at the cathedral

Friday 28 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 29 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

Sunday 30 November - Advent Sunday (Western Christianity); Advent get-together - Lerchenberg lights up for Christmas; Advent market in Hartenberg - Münchfeld

Tuesday 2 December - World Futures Day

Wednesday 3 December - Striezelmarkt in Dresden

Thursday 4 December - St. Barbara's Day in Germany; Baden-Württemberg Youth Film Award; Kläschenmarkt in Lemgo (Christmas market)

Saturday 6 December - Advent market in Bretzenheim

Sunday 7 December - The Second Sunday of Advent (is the third last Sunday before Christmas Day); Advent Market in Bielefeld

Monday 8 December - Bodhi Day in Japan

Saturday 13 December - Hechtsheim Christmas Market

Sunday 14 December - 3rd Advent

Sunday 21 December - 4th Advent

Thursday 25 December - Rough nights; Christmas Day

Friday 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)

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

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

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

Tuesday 6 January - Epiphany Cake in Germany

Wednesday 7 January - World Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day

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

Tuesday 13 January - Portfolio Day in January

Sunday 18 January - World Snowman Day

Wednesday 21 January - European Day of Mediation; International Sweatpants Day

Thursday 22 January - Franco-German Day; Festival of Saraswati

Sunday 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)

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

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

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

Thursday 29 January - International Car Day

Friday 30 January - Currywurst Festival in Neuwied

Monday 2 February - Candlemas (Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Western Christianity); Night of Redemption

Thursday 5 February - Allianz Day

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

Thursday 12 February - The Fools' Court in Stockach (political spectacle for 660 years); Weiberfastnacht in Germany (Held on the Thursday before Lent)

Saturday 14 February - Carnival Parade in Germany; World Mettbröthen Day; Valentine’s Day

Sunday 15 February - Fastelavn in Denmark and Norway (day on which Shrove Monday can fall)

Monday 16 February - Rosenmontag in Germany (Conducted the day before Ash Wednesday)

Tuesday 17 February - Shrove Tuesday in Germany (also known as Carnival Tuesday, Fasnets-Zeisdig, Veilchendienstag, Fasnacht Tuesday or Fastnachtsdienstag or Narrenkirchweih)

Thursday 19 February - Rheingau Gourmet and Wine Festival

Saturday 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)

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

Tuesday 3 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)

Friday 6 March - World Day of Prayer

Saturday 7 March - BMW Day (BMW Group); Equal Pay Day in Germany; Spring Send Münster

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

Saturday 14 March - Eberbach Wild Garlic Days; Würzburg Spring Festival

Sunday 15 March - The Heidelberg Summer Day procession (a spectacle at the turn of the seasons)

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

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

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

Friday 20 March - Hamburger Dom (folk festival); Palmkirmes in Recklinghausen

Saturday 21 March - Irish Folk Festival, Magdeburg

Sunday 22 March - Spring festival of Wilstedt traders with flea market (starts on the fourth Sunday in March)

Wednesday 25 March - Annunciation of the Virgin Mary

Friday 27 March - Berlin Spring Festival (begins on the Friday of the last full week in March); Spring Dippemess (It begins the week before Easter according to Western tradition); Osterwiese in Bremen (closed on Good Friday)

Saturday 28 March - Technorama Kassel; Giessen Spring Fair; freDOlino in Dortmund

Thursday 2 April - Maundy Thursday (Christian tradition. Supper of Jesus Christ with his disciples before his cross suffering); Speyer Spring Fair; International Fact-Checking Day

Friday 3 April - Ostermünde (Brügmanngarten Travemünde); Good Friday

Saturday 4 April - Holy Saturday; Streetfood Festival at Easter in Bad Zwischenahn (Starts on Holy Saturday, lasts 3 days); Hanover Spring Festival; Homburg Easter Fair; Bayreuth Spring Festival; BIE-happy spring fair in Bielefeld; Cologne Spring Folk Festival; Easter folk festival “Auf der Freiheit” in Herford; Iserlohn Easter Fair; Hagen Easter Fair; Düsseldorf Easter Fair; Mönchengladbach Easter Fair; Nuremberg Spring Festival; Spring Bend Aachen

Sunday 5 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); Easter

Monday 6 April - Easter Monday (Påskedag in Norway); Night of Destiny

Wednesday 8 April - Hana Matsuri in Japan; Techno-Classica in Essen; International Provenance Research Day (Held on the second Wednesday of April)

Sunday 12 April - White Sunday (It falls on the next Sunday after Easter)

Tuesday 14 April - Portfolio Day in April

Wednesday 15 April - Yazidi New Year; International Banana Day

Friday 17 April - Spring Fair or Frühjahrsdult in Landshut; Braunschweig Spring Fair; Castrop-Rauxel Spring Fair; Düsseldorf Spring Fair

Saturday 18 April - Art and Street Food Weekend Ladenburg; International Jugglers' Day

Sunday 19 April - Beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943

Monday 20 April - 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); International Strawberry Blonde Day

Thursday 23 April - German Beer Day in Germany; Saint George's Day; Girls' Day and Boys' Day in Germany; World Labrador Day

Friday 24 April - 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; Ochtrup Spring Fair; MaiN-Festival in Rüsselsheim; Rastatt Spring Market; Weiden Spring Festival; Great May Fair in Remscheid; Zwickau Spring Folk Festival; Darmstadt Spring Fair; Coburg Spring Festival

Saturday 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.); 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); 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; International Financial Independence Day

Sunday 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); Hamburg Marathon; Warnemünde Spring Walk (opening of the season); Hanover Cherry Blossom Festival (Begins on Sunday of the third full week of April); Spring Sunday Shopping in Mainz

Monday 27 April - Game Designers' Day

Thursday 30 April - Day of Nonviolent Education

Friday 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; Spring Market at Gut Basthorst; Lingen Spring Fair; May Fair in Ahlen; Spring Fair in Krefeld; InselWeinMacher Day; International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Saturday 2 May - Altländer Blossom Festival in Jork; Minden May Fair

Sunday 3 May - Deister Day; Gutenberg Half Marathon Mainz

Tuesday 5 May - OMR Festival in Hamburg

Friday 8 May - Ascension market Kempten; Anniversary of the liberation from National Socialism; Brothers Grimm Festival in Hanau; Schmelzer Week; Donatus May Fair in Euskirchen; Rheydter Frühkirmes in Mönchengladbach; Maidult in Regensburg; Wolfsburg shooting and folk festival; Markt Indersdorf folk festival; Liberation Day in Berlin

Saturday 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); Easter street festival in Hamburg; Dillingen Arts and Crafts Market; Fair in Schmelz-Michelbach; Herb Weeks on Western Lake Constance

Sunday 10 May - Book Day in Germany; 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); 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)

Monday 11 May - Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints

Wednesday 13 May - Arolsen Baroque Festival; Traunstein Spring Festival (starts on Father's Day evening); Schmelzer Schmackes; Realtime or International Festival for New Music

Thursday 14 May - Father's Day in Germany (Vatertag is always celebrated on Ascension Day); Christ's Ascension (or Kristi Himmelfartsdag in Norway); Freienfels Knights' Games (Taking place on Ascension Day weekend); Putbus Festival; Müritz Sail; Day of the Fire Department in Mainz-Drais; International Blues & Rock Festival Altzella; Wermelskirchen Spring Fair; Porz Island Festival; Ascension Fair Lünen; Early Fair in Viersen-Süchteln; Kevelaer Fair

Friday 15 May - Blood ride in Weingarten (A mystical horse procession); Constance Campus Festival; Karl May Festival in Radebeul; Freiburg Spring Fair

Saturday 16 May - Braunacht in Saarlouis; Merzig Open-Air Season; Kirkel Medieval Market; Funfair in Neunkirchen-Furpach; Dresden Jazz Mile

Sunday 17 May - Saar Pedal in Merzig; Dixieland Parade (start on the Terrassenufer at the Carola Bridge)

Wednesday 20 May - International HR Day; Freßgassfest in Frankfurt

Thursday 21 May - European Natura 2000 Day; Erlangen Bergkirchweih; Schlossgrabenfest (begins the Thursday before Trinity)

Friday 22 May - Willingen Bike Festival; Garden Festival in the Georgengarten; Open Ohr Festival; Ikarus Festival; Turnerjahrmarkt in Zweibrücken; Whitsun Fair in Neuwied; Homburg May Festival; Spectaculum Magdeburgense; Magdeburg City Festival; Thuringian Castle Days; Kawa Festival; Mondorf Beach Festival (Niederkassel); Whitsun Fair Hückelhoven; Whitsun Market Frankenberg; Whitsun Market in Geilenkirchen; Bergneustadt Shooting Festival; Schützenfest in Neuss-Furth; Bayreuth Folk Festival; Michelstadt Bee Market; Lohhofer Folk Festival; Schanzer Pfingstvolksfest in Ingolstadt

Saturday 23 May - Constitution Day in Germany; Dragon Boat Festival in Hanover; International Fireworks Competition (starts on the Saturday of the third full week of May); Pretzel Festival on the Landskrone (Heppingen); Whitsun Fair in Eppelborn (Pfingstkirmes in Eppelborn); Whitsun Fair in Menden; Whitsun Fair in Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen; Süderschmedeby Arts and Crafts Market; Ottweiler-Mainzweiler Fair; Fair in Schmelz-Primsweiler; Whitsun Festival Bad Kötzting (Whitsun Riding Town and Whitsun Festival Week); Whitsun Fair in Bad Rothenfelde; Whitsun Market Neukloster in Buxtehude; Geldern Whitsun Fair; Whitsun Fair Bergisch Gladbach; Shooting Festival in Meerbusch-Büderich; Unges Pengste in Korschenbroich; Whitsun Market in Worms; Salzburg Dult

Sunday 24 May - Cake and Fountain Festival in Schwäbisch Hall (The spectacle begins at Pentecost); Wine Tour Mainz-Ebersheim; Bayou Festival in Erfurt

Monday 25 May - Whit Monday (celebrated on the day after Pentecost); German Mill Day

Tuesday 26 May - German Diversity Day

Wednesday 27 May - Emergency Medicine Day

Thursday 28 May - Volkswagen Day; Immergut Festival; Karlsruhe Spring Fair

Saturday 30 May - Japan Day in Düsseldorf (Celebrated on the last Saturday of May); Erdbeerfest or Strawberry Festival in Germany (Last Saturday in May); Berger Street Festival in Frankfurt am Main; Hagen Biodiversity Day; Verden Cathedral Fair; Kleinenbroich Shooting Festival; Lauterbach Premium Market

Sunday 31 May - European Siblings' Day; Feast of the Holy Trinity; Art at Staden, Saarbrücken; Farmers', craftsmen's and winegrowers' market in St. Wendel

Monday 1 June - Whit Monday according to Eastern Christian tradition

Wednesday 3 June - European Bicycle Day (celebrated since 1998); Hambach Music Festival; Erkrath Shooting and Folk Festival; Corpus Christi Fair in Oberhausen

Thursday 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); Corpus Christi (Held on the Thursday after the Trinity. Monaco, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Venezuela); Corpus Christi procession in Hüfingen (A sea of flowers on the street); The Hanau Garden Festival; Magic Bike Rüdesheim; Wismar Harbor Days; Emmes in Saarlouis; Hofen Summer Festival; Procession of God in Mülheim; Early Fair in Viersen; Lambertus Market in Erkelenz

Friday 5 June - Hussite Festival in Bernau; Rock am Ring (starts on the first Friday in June and runs all weekend long); Gaadefelder Kerb Mainz, Goetheplatz; Ottweiler Old Town Festival; Freiberg US Car Meeting; Dance Sport Festival in Bremen; Leipzig City Festival; Halveran Fair; Annaberg Kät

Saturday 6 June - Nördlinger Mess; German Visually Impaired Day; Eltville Rose Days

Sunday 7 June - UNESCO World Heritage Day in Germany; Children's Media Festival - Goldener Spatz; Bremen Week of the Garden; Duck Classic Day; World Naturist Day (Starts on the first Sunday of June in the northern hemisphere and on the first Sunday of December in the southern hemisphere); Aeromodeling Day in Germany (Starts on the first Sunday of June)

Monday 8 June - Marine Conservation City Day in Kiel; Essen Summer of Science

Thursday 11 June - International Day of the Caregiver; Culture City Festival in Dillingen; Medimeisterschaften or Medis Festival; Schumann Festival Zwickau and International Robert Schumann Competition

Friday 12 June - 48h Wilhelmsburg; Strawberry Festival in Mainz-Gonsenheim; Hive Festival; Waderner Maad; Regensburg Citizens' Festival; St. Wendel Town Festival; Summer Festival Vorstraße feat. Spittaler Straße; Summer fair in Wuppertal: Mega Kirmes in the Barmen Center (Starts on the Friday after the first Saturday in June); Pforzemer Mess

Saturday 13 June - Night of the Museums in Hanover; Festival in the Vogelviertel; Festival of Choirs (Dortmund Music Festival); Day of the Bundeswehr (Open House Day); International Yarn Bombing Day (second Saturday in June)

Sunday 14 June - MoGo or motorcycle service in Hamburg's Michel church (Motorradgottesdienst Starts on Sunday of the second week of June)

Tuesday 16 June - MINT-MACHEN-Festival in Magdeburg

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

Thursday 18 June - International Day for Combating Hate Speech; Campus Festival in Dresden; Campus Festival Bielefeld; Freiberg Mining Festival

Friday 19 June - Ebbelwoi Festival in Langen; Hurricane Festival; Traunstein Rose Days; Blieskastel Old Town Festival; Krämerbrücken Festival; Organic Field Day; Stade Old Town Festival; Southside Festival; Limo-Disco in Freiberg

Saturday 20 June - Memorial Day for Victims of Flight and Exile in Germany (since 2015); Vierländer Strawberry Festival (Starts on the third Saturday in June); Deisterstraße Festival (Hannover); Garlic Land Festival; Kiel Week; World Juggling Day (It will be held on the Saturday closest to June 17)

Sunday 21 June - Sleep Day in Germany (Tag des Schlafes); 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)

Monday 22 June - Leonberg Cycling Action Day; World Rainforest Day

Tuesday 23 June - SWR Dokufestival

Wednesday 24 June - International Day of Women in Diplomacy; Long Table of the Intergenerational Dialogue in Hanover (takes place on the 80th day after Easter); Fusion Festival

Thursday 25 June - Studi Festival Siegen; Filmnächte am Elbufer in Dresden; Wimpfen Valley Market

Friday 26 June - Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany); Hanover Shooting Festival (The ten-day event begins on the last Friday in June); Osthafenfest in Saarbrücken; Theelfest in Lebach; Elbhangfest (Pillnitzer Landstraße, Loschwitz, Wachwitz, Pillnitz); Love Music Festival in Magdeburg; Pirate Action OpenAir Theater in Grevesmühlen; Karlsfeld Settlers' Festival; Johannisnacht Mainz (The Johannisfest in Mainz came to an end on Monday evening with a huge fireworks display); Dormagen shooting and local history festival

Saturday 27 June - Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany); Architecture and Engineering Day in Hamburg; Summer Festival «Summer in the City» (Bergheim); Neunkirchen Town Festival; Telemann Summer Festival; Leonberg Summer Show; Forest Festival in Höfingen

Sunday 28 June - Daimler Day; Three Bridges Run Mainz

Wednesday 1 July - Day against anti-Muslim racism

Thursday 2 July - Heinerfest in Darmstadt; Commemoration of the Sivas massacre; St. John's Festival Eschwege

Friday 3 July - Würzburg Kiliani folk festival; 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; Borbeck Wine Festival; Beecker Kirmes (Duisburg); Peine Freischiessen

Saturday 4 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

Wednesday 8 July - Breminale; Little Festival in the Great Garden (Hanover); Rockharz Festival

Thursday 9 July - Bike Week in Willingen; Fritzlar Horse Market; Seehasenfest in Friedrichshafen; Speyer Pretzel Festival

Friday 10 July - Beatles Day; Royal Wine Festival Potsdam (Conducted from Friday of the first full week of 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; Cheese meets Wine Fest in Kiel; Summer Party Essen; Ulm Folk Festival; Waldkraiburg Folk Festival; Grebenstein Cattle and Funfair; Willich Shooting Festival; Dinkelsbühl Children's Fair; Müritzfest in Waren; HanseStadtFest Bunter Hering in Frankfurt/Oder

Saturday 11 July - Lighthouse Swim - Open Water Kiel; Kleve Funfair; Vogelwiese in Dresden

Sunday 12 July - Schützenfest in Neuss-Reuschenberg

Monday 13 July - International Conductor's Day

Tuesday 14 July - Portfolio Day in July

Wednesday 15 July - Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Thursday 16 July - Ratha Yatra (Held on the second day of Shukla Pakshi of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha); Happiness Festival in Straubenhardt; Stade Winegrowers' Festival; Jazzopen Stuttgart; Deichbrand Festival; Wolfhagen Cattle and Livestock Market; Sommersend in Münster; Duisburg City Festival; Hameln Wine Festival

Friday 17 July - Vine Blossom Festival in the park in Mainz-Laubenheim; Steinfurth Rose Festival; Überherrn Borderland Festival; Cantiere Internationale d'Arte in Montepulciano; Travemünde Week; Kiel Boat Harbour Summer; Rutenfest in Ravensburg; Biggest fair on the Rhine in Düsseldorf (Schützen- und Heimatfest); Letmathe Kiliankirmes; Erbach Meadow Market; Delft and Harbour Festival in Emden; Rhine Fair in Düsseldorf

Saturday 18 July - Dresden Castle Night (parks of Albrechtsberg Castle, Eckberg Castle, Lingnerschloss and Saloppe); Festival Day Dänische Straße in Kiel; Leonberg Vaulting Tournament; Zwiesel Border Festival

Sunday 19 July - Singen Castle Festival (Hohentwiel)

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

Tuesday 21 July - Hohentwielfestival Singen

Wednesday 22 July - Tisha beAV; Düsseldorf Fashion Days

Thursday 23 July - The festival in Karlsruhe (in recent years it starts on the third Thursday in July); Mit Dir Festival

Friday 24 July - Spielbudenfestival (In recent years, the competition has started on the Friday of the third full week in July); SNNTG Festival; Wine Festival at Bucherbach Castle (Püttlingen-Köllerbach); Spiesen-Elversberg Funfair; Summer Dome in Hamburg; Annafest in Forchheim; Bad Mergentheim Folk Festival; Rheinuferfest in Cologne; Doktorsee on fire, Rinten; Ueckermünde Lagoon Days

Saturday 25 July - Vegan Street Festival Hamburg (It takes place on the last Saturday in July); French Market Festival in Neuwied; Street Mag Show Hannover (starts on Saturday of the third full week in July); Bostalsee Lake Festival; Summer Music Days Hitzacker; Jacobi Fair in Ascheberg; Sommerlibori in Paderborn; Annakirmes in Düren; Materborn Fair

Sunday 26 July - Stuttgart Flamenco Festival; St. Peter-Ording Kite Festival

Tuesday 28 July - 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; UNESCO Recognition Day in Mainz (Old Jewish Cemetery Judensand)

Wednesday 29 July - Maschsee Festival Hanover; Rockstadt Extreme Fest; Wacken Open Air Festival (The biggest heavy metal festival worldwide)

Thursday 30 July - Rhenish Fishing Festival Gernsheim; HOA Festival or Headbangers Open Air; EmsFest in Rheine

Friday 31 July - Wine festival in Werder; Zissel: Kassel's folk and water festival; Summer Night Wine Festival in Wetzlar; Wine Festival in Dietzenbach; Zugvögel Festival; Sticky Fingers Festival; Rock of Ages Festival; Schmelz-Bettingen Funfair; Kurparkfest in Weiskirchen; Eltinger Wengerterfest; Warmbronner Open Air; Juicy Beats Festival in Dortmund; Gut Sandbeck Open Air; Home and Marksmen's Festival in Zerbst; Neugersdorf Jacobimarkt; Opladen city festival with funfair in Leverkusen; Hof Folk Festival; Schützen- and Volksfest in Fulda; Süderbrarup Brarup Market; Sparrenburg Festival Bielefeld

Saturday 1 August - International Festival Maritim (Starts the first weekend of August); Court Festival in Bad Camberg; Kirchweihfest in Mainz-Gonsenheim (1st weekend in August); Ziegelhütte District Festival, Ottweiler; Pirna Court Night (Pirna Old Town); Düffelward Fair

Sunday 2 August - European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma

Wednesday 5 August - Husum Harbour Days

Thursday 6 August - The Hanse Sail in Rostock (Typically begins on Thursday of the first full week of August); Cranger Kirmes; Arolsen Market and Cattle Market; Stall and Cattle Market in Bad Arolsen

Friday 7 August - Mainfest in Frankfurt am Main; Hanover Street Food & Music Festival; Fährmannsfest Hanover; Bretzenheimer Kerb; Cider Festival in Frankfurt (starts on Friday of the second week of August); Bernemer Kerb; Freisen Medieval Market; Moritzburg Festival; SonneMondSterne Festival; Viking Days in Schleswig; Wesel City Festival; Annentag in Brakel; Green Juice Festival in Bonn; Bocholt Aasee Festival; Uelzen Town Festival; Rinteln Old Town Festival

Saturday 8 August - Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany; Festival of Lights in Bad Wildungen; M'era Luna Festival; Pyro Games Magdeburg (duel of the fireworks); Drachenstich in Furth im Wald (The Drachenstich is part of the Furth im Wald folk festival)

Tuesday 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)

Wednesday 12 August - Maritime Days, Bremen: Windjammer Festival; Bremerhaven Maritime Days

Thursday 13 August - Memorial Day on the tragedy of the Berlin Wall in Germany (its construction was completed in 1961); Kronach Free Shooting; Eckernförde City Center Festival

Friday 14 August - Gäubodenfest Straubing; Wiesbaden Rheingau Wine Week; Mombach Rhine Festival; Draiser Kerb; Dresden City Festival; Street Food Festival in Singen; Micro! festival in Dortmund; Leipzig Water Festival; Stoppelmarkt in Vechta; Summer Evening in Aachen; Autumn Fair in Ochtrup; Säubrennerkirmes in Wittlich; Old Town Festival in Wernigeride; Old Town Festival on the Heumarkt in Cologne; Aurich Town Festival

Saturday 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; The Bremen Music Festival (Begins on the third Saturday in August); Schmaus in Beckingen; Malle Festival in Magdeburg; StreetArtFestival in Essen; Langeooger Drachenzauber; Assumption Fair in Warendorf; Wendsche Kärmetze; Bad Vilbel Market

Sunday 16 August - Celebration of the devotion to Hünkar Bektas¸ Veli

Tuesday 18 August - Kite Festival on Wangerooge

Thursday 20 August - Sweden Festival in Wismar

Friday 21 August - European Elvis Festival; Echelon Festival; Funhouse Festival; Cannafair in Düsseldorf; Gourmet Festival Düsseldorf; Rudolstadt Bird Shooting; Bremerhaven Open-Air Market; Rüsselsheim Kerb; Kreuznach Fair; Mölln Old Town Festival; Siegburg City Festival; Gifhorn Old Town Festival; Spiekeroog Paper Boat Regatta; Schollenfest in Berlin; Wittenberge Town and Harbor Festival; Münster Mittendrin, City Festival; Brokser Heiratsmarkt; Bartlmädult Landshut

Saturday 22 August - Uhlenhorst District Festival, Hamburg (Starts on the fourth Saturday of 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); Rengesfest in Schmelz; Feuertal Festival in Wuppertal; Lippborger Market in Lippetal; Neuss Citizens' Rifle Festival; Worms Baked Fish Festival

Monday 24 August - St. Bartholomew's Day in the Catholic and Protestant churches

Tuesday 25 August - 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)

Wednesday 26 August - Rheingau Wine Market (takes place on the last Wednesday in August)

Thursday 27 August - Bamberg Sandkerwa; Osterstraße Wine Festival, Hamburg (starts on the fourth Thursday in August); Mainz Wine Market; Bremen WineSummer; Oldenburg City Festival; Old Town Festival Fallersleben

Friday 28 August - Erding Autumn Festival; 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; Raksha Bandhan; Day of the Russian Germans; Lantern Festival in Germany; Wine Time in Saarbrücken; Baltic Sea in Flames - Grömitz (fireworks); Bielefeld Pig Market; Mühlhausen Town Fair; Traditional Folk Festival in Mühldorf a. Inn; Rendsburg Autumn; St. Bartholomew's Market in Bad Ems; Rheder Kirmes; Siegen City Festival; Old Town Festival Görlitz and Jakuby Festival Zgorzelec; Eberbach Cuckoo Market; Vilshofen Folk Festival; Nuremberg Autumn Folk Festival; Greven Fair; Michaelmas Fair Miltenberg; Karpfham Festival in Bad Griesbach; Grenadier Market in Pirmasens

Saturday 29 August - Rosenheim Autumn Festival; Family Day in Hamburg (Celebrated on the last Saturday in August); Guild Market in Bad Wimpfen; Vogteifest in Burbach; Olvenstedt Summer Festival; MAMF in Stade (Must all attend festival); Good Climate Festival in Essen; Bad Harzburg Salt and Light Festival

Tuesday 1 September - World Peace Day in Germany (since 1966); European Bike Week (Begins the first Tuesday in September and runs through the end of the week); World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation; Beginning of the Orthodox Church Year; Intercultural Week in Erfurt; Heritage Days in Erfurt

Thursday 3 September - Gillamoos Abensberg; Blasheim Market in Lübbecke; Havelberg Horse Market

Friday 4 September - Town Festival with flower festival in Bad Wildungen; Bridge festival and bridge run in Wetzlar; Laubach Autumn Magic Festival; Hechtsheimer Kerb; Berger Mrket with Town Clerk Festival; Hokus Pokus Festival; Handicraft Market in Grömitz; Borghorst Pig Market; Vegesack Market in Bremen; Bremen Literature Night; Folk Festival in Pfaffenhofen; Unna Town Festival; Moers funfair; Lantern Festival in Bad Homburg; Pflasterzauber in Hildesheim; Schwelm funfair; Ibbenbüren Funfair; Nidda Fall Mrket; Four Gates Festival in Neubrandenburg; Witten Onion Fair; Rastatt Autumn Fair; Grevenbroich-Stadtmitte Shooting Festival; Freising Folk Festival; Arnstadt Town Festival; Rathenow Town Festival

Saturday 5 September - National Coffee Day in Germany (Celebrated on the first Saturday in September); Bergstrasse Winegrowers' Festival Bensheim; NOK Romantika; Alpenrock at Schaumberg; Superbloom Festival in Munich; botanika goes space; Hemelinger Vielfalt District Festival - HEVIE; Vreden Fair

Sunday 6 September - Day of the Homeland in Germany (Tag der Heimat); Seniors' Summer Festival in Mainz; Friedrichsort Lighthouse Festival; Light week on Wangerooge

Tuesday 8 September - Allgäu cattle drive; Nativity of the Virgin Mary

Wednesday 9 September - Düsseldorf Festival

Thursday 10 September - Rheingau Literature Festival (The ten-day event begins the second Thursday in September); Erfurt Wine Festival

Friday 11 September - Kerb in the park (Mainz-Laubenheim); Ebersheim Kerb; Intercultural Week in Mainz; Hechtsheim Winegrowers' Days; Finther Kerb; Autumn Dippemess; Kulturbrücke Festival in Magdeburg; Leonberg Equestrian Games; Now & Always Festival; Pützchens Markt in Bonn; Old Town Festival Goslar; Hüsten Fair; Hattingen Autumn Fair; Passau Autumn Fair; Dürkheim Sausage Market; Wilbaser Market Blomberg; Magnifest in Braunschweig; Bavarian Oktoberfest in Lüneburg; Telgte Nativity Market

Saturday 12 September - Ecological and Social Market Economy Day in Germany (since 2000); Freiberg Night Shift; Lollapalooza Berlin; Maritime Week Bremen; Kempen Autumn Fair; Viersen-Süchteln Autumn Fair; World Headache Day (A Day of Awareness and Support)

Sunday 13 September - Open Monument Day in Germany (Held on the second Sunday in September); Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross; Discovery Day in Hanover; Mainz Science Market; Intercultural Festival in Mainz; Citadel Festival in Mainz

Tuesday 15 September - Ganesha Festival

Wednesday 16 September - Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg; Stade Training Fair

Thursday 17 September - Feelings of Happiness Festival at the Hockenheimring; Diepholz Wholesale Market; Weiden Folk Festival

Friday 18 September - 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); Kerb in Borner Grund (Mainz-Marienborn); Bonn Street Food Festival; Handmade Markets im Kappeln; Erfurt Oktoberfest; Erfurt Cereal Market - Perennial and Garden Market; Schmelz-Hüttersdorf Fair; Stunikenmarkt in Hamm; Classical Music Festival for Children in Leipzig; Late fair MG-Rheydt in Mönchengladbach; Franconian Folk Festival in Crailsheim; Lutherstadt Eisleben meadow market; Emden Shooting Festival; Castrop-Rauxel Autumn Fair; Radevormwald Plum Fair; St. Catherine's Market in Delbrück; Alzey Winegrowers' Festival

Saturday 19 September - Munich Oktoberfest; Night of the Churches Hamburg (the event was launched in 2003); Steinau Puppetry Festival; Oktoberfest

Sunday 20 September - Universal Children's Day in Germany; World Children's Day in Thuringia, Germany (an official holiday since 2019); 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); Jürmker Autumn Market in Bielefeld

Monday 21 September - Day of Prayer in Cologne; Leipzig Film Art Fair

Thursday 24 September - Mainz Shines - the Late Light Festival; Stade Autumn Market; Nienburg Old Town Festival; Bünde Onion Market

Friday 25 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); Dental Health Day in Germany; 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); Kite Festival on Kronsberg; Schildesche Abbey Market; Magdeburg Autumn Fair; Berlin Autumn Fair; Wilhelmshaven Sailing Cup; Radebeul Autumn and Wine Festival; Small Autumn Fair Leipzig; Oeseder Großkirmes in Georgsmarienhütte; Michaeliskirmes in Brilon; Krefeld Fall Fair; Schanzer Autumn Festival in Ingolstadt; Saarbrücken Oktoberfest; Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart; Zwickau Autumn Folk Festival

Saturday 26 September - World Children's Day in Mainz (Starts on Saturday of the third full week of September); Gebersheim Bakehouse Festival; Eitorf Fair; Dellbrücker Festmeile in Cologne; Michaelmas Week in Gütersloh; Haan Fair; Mettwurst market in Ennigerloh; Rees Funfair; Roonkarker Mart in Stadland; Michaeliskirmes in Gütersloh; Giessen Autumn Fair; Michaelis-Kirchweih in Fürth; Oktoberfest in Hanover; Oktobermess in Mannheim

Sunday 27 September - Intercultural Week in Germany (Begins on the fourth Sunday in September); Stade Wedding Fair

Monday 28 September - Digital Week Dortmund

Tuesday 29 September - Fürth Kärwa in Franconia

Thursday 1 October - Siemens Day

Friday 2 October - Emperor Otto Festival or Kaiser Otto Fest, Magdeburg; Farmers' and Regional Market in Kiel; Essen Light Festival; Kramermarkt Oldenburg (The market begins on Friday between September 26 and October 2 and ends ten days later); Festival of Lights in Berlin; Autumn Fair in Lingen; Ahlen Autumn Fair

Saturday 3 October - Open Mosque Day in Germany (since 1997); German Unity Day (Germany); Merzig Viezfest; Vegefest or city festival in Vegesack, Bremen; Viersen Autumn Fair

Sunday 4 October - Thanksgiving Day in Germany (Held on the first Sunday in October); Autumn festival with children's suitcase flea market, Freiberg

Tuesday 6 October - International Nonviolent Communication Day; German-American Day

Wednesday 7 October - World Day of Action for Decent Work

Friday 9 October - Hannover Wiesn (starts on Friday of the second week of October); Fair in St. Ingbert; Glückstalertage Bielefeld; Autumn '89 - On the streets of Leipzig (Awakening to democracy); Festival for puppet, object and other theater; Weimar Onion Market; Einbeck Owl Festival; Anröchte Autumn Fair; Hückelhoven Autumn Fair

Saturday 10 October - Day of remembrance of Saint Hüseyin; Dashahara; Hanover Zoo Festival; Fair in Ottweiler-Lautenbach; Migratory Bird Days in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park; Essen-Steele Autumn Fair; Mayen Lukasmarkt; Musdorf Muswiese

Sunday 11 October - Grandmothers' Day in Germany (Second Sunday in October); Lücht up Börkum

Tuesday 13 October - Portfolio Day in October

Thursday 15 October - Limburg Oktoberfest

Friday 16 October - Federweißen Days in Rüdesheim am Rhein; Rheine Autumn Fair; Autumn Market in Stadthagen; Bocholt Autumn Fair; Ulm Autumn Folk Festival; Freiburg Herbstmess (A folk festival full of color and joy); Lautrer Kerwe in Kaiserslautern (October market); Freimarkt Bremen (A historic folk festival full of fun and tradition)

Saturday 17 October - Fair in Ottweiler-Fürth; Leipzig Jazz Days; Herbstlibori in Paderborn; Lippstadt Autumn Week; Warendorf Fat Market

Sunday 18 October - Lachmesse in Leipzig (European Humor and Satire Festival)

Tuesday 20 October - Festival of the Sikh Holy Book

Wednesday 21 October - Frankfurt Book Fair (Starts on the third Wednesday of October); International Pronouns Day; Wendel Fair

Thursday 22 October - Austrian Sparkling Wine Day; Bavarian Dentists' Day (Beginning on Thursday of the fourth week of October); October market Nastätten

Friday 23 October - Rheinhessen Wine Forum in Mainz; GRASSIMESSE for applied art and design in Leipzig; Hubertus Market Bergheim; Speyer Autumn Fair; Simon Judaic Market in Euskirchen

Saturday 24 October - Library Day in Germany and South Tyrol (in Germany since 1995, South Tyrol - since 2009); Sim-Jü Werne; Herbstsend Münster

Sunday 25 October - Fête de la Gastronomie in Mainz; Coat Sunday in Mainz; Essen Light Weeks

Monday 26 October - Intersex Awareness Day; globale° - Festival for cross-border literature in Bremen; Mendelssohn Festival

Thursday 29 October - International Day of Care and Support

Saturday 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); Autumn Fair in Wuppertal; Karlsruhe Autumn Fair; Neuruppiner Martinimarkt; Cologne Autumn Folk Festival; Parchim Martini Market

Sunday 1 November - Mainz Book Fair; Kiel's Sea of Lights; Minden Autumn Fair

Monday 2 November - All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion)