Holiday Calendar for Germany

Saturday 12 October - 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 13 October - Grandmothers' Day in Germany (Second Sunday in October); Lücht up Börkum

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

Thursday 17 October - Limburg Oktoberfest

Friday 18 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 19 October - Fair in Ottweiler-Fürth; Leipzig Jazz Days; Herbstlibori in Paderborn; Lippstadt Autumn Week; Warendorf Fat Market

Sunday 20 October - Festival of the Sikh Holy Book; Lachmesse in Leipzig (European Humor and Satire Festival)

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); October market Nastätten

Friday 25 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; Cologne Autumn Folk Festival

Saturday 26 October - Intersex Awareness Day; Fête de la Gastronomie in Mainz; Sim-Jü Werne; Herbstsend Münster

Sunday 27 October - Coat Sunday in Mainz; Essen Light Weeks

Monday 28 October - globale° - Festival for cross-border literature in Bremen; Mendelssohn Festival

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)

Friday 1 November - Autumn Fair in Wuppertal; Karlsruhe Autumn Fair; Neuruppiner Martinimarkt; Osnabrück Autumn Fair; Parchim Martini Market

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

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

Tuesday 5 November - World Romani Language Day; euro-scene Leipzig - Festival of contemporary European theater

Wednesday 6 November - All Saints' Fair in Soest

Friday 8 November - Hochheim Market; Intersex Day of Remembrance; Winter Dome Hamburg

Saturday 9 November - Schicksalstag (Germany); Inventors' Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Dynamite Ska Festival in Leipzig; Zetel Market; St. Martin's Market in Nottuln

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; French Film Festival in Leipzig

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; Freiberg 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

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; Kläschenmarkt in Lemgo (Christmas market)

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)

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)

Tuesday 14 January - Portfolio Day in January

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

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)

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; Spring Send Münster

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)

Saturday 29 March - Giessen Spring Fair; Würzburg Spring Festival

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

Friday 4 April - Palmkirmes in Recklinghausen

Saturday 5 April - Irish Folk Festival, Magdeburg

Sunday 6 April - Night of Destiny

Tuesday 8 April - Hana Matsuri in Japan; Portfolio Day in April

Friday 11 April - Spring Dippemess (It begins the week before Easter according to Western tradition); Osterwiese in Bremen (closed on Good Friday)

Saturday 12 April - freDOlino in Dortmund

Wednesday 16 April - Yazidi New Year

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

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; 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 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; Techno-Classica in Essen

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; Ochtrup Spring Fair; MaiN-Festival in Rüsselsheim; Rastatt Spring Market; Weiden Spring Festival; Great May Fair in Remscheid; Zwickau Spring Folk Festival

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

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; May Fair in Ahlen; International Workers’ Day (May Day)

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

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; Donatus May Fair in Euskirchen; Rheydter Frühkirmes in Mönchengladbach

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)

Saturday 17 May - Merzig Open-Air Season; Kirkel Medieval Market; Funfair in Neunkirchen-Furpach; Dresden Jazz Mile

Sunday 18 May - Saar Pedal in Merzig; Dixieland Parade (start on the Terrassenufer at the Carola Bridge)

Tuesday 20 May - International HR Day

Wednesday 21 May - European Natura 2000 Day; Freßgassfest in Frankfurt

Friday 23 May - Constitution Day in Germany; Ascension market Kempten; Willingen Bike Festival; Schmelzer Week; Homburg May Festival

Saturday 24 May - Easter street festival in Hamburg; International Fireworks Competition (starts on the Saturday of the third full week of May)

Sunday 25 May - Art at Staden, Saarbrücken; Farmers', craftsmen's and winegrowers' market in St. Wendel

Tuesday 27 May - Emergency Medicine Day; German Diversity Day

Wednesday 28 May - Volkswagen Day; Arolsen Baroque Festival; Traunstein Spring Festival (starts on Father's Day evening); Schmelzer Schmackes; Realtime or International Festival for New Music

Thursday 29 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; Emmes in Saarlouis; International Blues & Rock Festival Altzella; Immergut Festival; Wermelskirchen Spring Fair; Porz Island Festival

Friday 30 May - Blood ride in Weingarten (A mystical horse procession); Constance Campus Festival; Ottweiler Old Town Festival; Karl May Festival in Radebeul; Leipzig City Festival

Saturday 31 May - Japan Day in Düsseldorf (date for 2024. Celebrated on the last Saturday of May); European Siblings' Day; Erdbeerfest or Strawberry Festival in Germany (Last Saturday in May); Eltville Rose Days; Braunacht in Saarlouis

Sunday 1 June - UNESCO World Heritage Day in Germany; Children's Media Festival - Goldener Spatz; Duck Classic Day

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

Wednesday 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 5 June - Erlangen Bergkirchweih; Schlossgrabenfest (begins the Thursday before Trinity); Wismar Harbor Days; Culture City Festival in Dillingen; Medimeisterschaften or Medis Festival; Schumann Festival Zwickau and International Robert Schumann Competition

Friday 6 June - 48h Wilhelmsburg; German Visually Impaired Day; Rock am Ring (starts on the first Friday in June and runs all weekend long); Garden Festival in the Georgengarten; Open Ohr Festival; Ikarus Festival; Hive Festival; Turnerjahrmarkt in Zweibrücken; Whitsun Fair in Neuwied; Spectaculum Magdeburgense; Magdeburg City Festival; Thuringian Castle Days; Kawa Festival; Freiberg US Car Meeting; Dance Sport Festival in Bremen

Saturday 7 June - Dragon Boat Festival in Hanover; 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; Festival of Choirs (Dortmund Music Festival)

Sunday 8 June - Cake and Fountain Festival in Schwäbisch Hall (The spectacle begins at Pentecost); MoGo or motorcycle service in Hamburg's Michel church (Motorradgottesdienst Starts on Sunday of the second week of June); Wine Tour Mainz-Ebersheim; Marine Conservation City Day in Kiel; Bayou Festival in Erfurt

Monday 9 June - Whit Monday (celebrated on the day after Pentecost); German Mill Day; Whit Monday according to Eastern Christian tradition

Wednesday 11 June - International Day of the Caregiver

Friday 13 June - Traunstein Rose Days; Waderner Maad; Blieskastel Old Town Festival; Krämerbrücken Festival; Stade Old Town Festival; Summer Festival Vorstraße feat. Spittaler Straße

Saturday 14 June - Berger Street Festival in Frankfurt am Main; Hagen Biodiversity Day

Sunday 15 June - Feast of the Holy Trinity

Tuesday 17 June - Day of remembrance of the popular uprising in the GDR; MINT-MACHEN-Festival in Magdeburg

Wednesday 18 June - International Day for Combating Hate Speech

Thursday 19 June - 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; Campus Festival in Dresden; Campus Festival Bielefeld; Hofen Summer Festival

Friday 20 June - Memorial Day for Victims of Flight and Exile in Germany (since 2015); Hussite Festival in Bernau; Ebbelwoi Festival in Langen; Gaadefelder Kerb Mainz, Goetheplatz; Hurricane Festival; Osthafenfest in Saarbrücken; Love Music Festival in Magdeburg; Pirate Action OpenAir Theater in Grevesmühlen; Southside Festival; Johannisnacht Mainz (The Johannisfest in Mainz came to an end on Monday evening with a huge fireworks display)

Saturday 21 June - Sleep Day in Germany (Tag des Schlafes); Nördlinger Mess; Vierländer Strawberry Festival (Starts on the third Saturday in June); Deisterstraße Festival (Hannover); 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); Kiel Week

Sunday 22 June - Three Bridges Run Mainz; Leonberg Cycling Action Day; Bremen Week of the Garden

Monday 23 June - Essen Summer of Science

Tuesday 24 June - International Day of Women in Diplomacy

Wednesday 25 June - Fusion Festival

Thursday 26 June - Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, Germany); Studi Festival Siegen; Filmnächte am Elbufer in Dresden; Wimpfen Valley Market

Friday 27 June - Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany); Ratha Yatra (Held on the second day of Shukla Pakshi of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha); Hanover Shooting Festival (The ten-day event begins on the last Friday in June); Strawberry Festival in Mainz-Gonsenheim; Regensburg Citizens' Festival; St. Wendel Town Festival; Theelfest in Lebach; Elbhangfest (Pillnitzer Landstraße, Loschwitz, Wachwitz, Pillnitz); Karlsfeld Settlers' Festival

Saturday 28 June - Daimler Day; Architecture and Engineering Day in Hamburg; Night of the Museums in Hanover; Summer Festival «Summer in the City» (Bergheim); Neunkirchen Town Festival; Telemann Summer Festival; Festival in the Vogelviertel; Leonberg Summer Show; Forest Festival in Höfingen

Tuesday 1 July - Day against anti-Muslim racism

Wednesday 2 July - Commemoration of the Sivas massacre

Thursday 3 July - Heinerfest in Darmstadt; Freiberg Mining Festival; St. John's Festival Eschwege

Friday 4 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; Organic Field Day; Long Night in Stade; Limo-Disco in Freiberg; Borbeck Wine Festival; Beecker Kirmes (Duisburg); Peine Freischiessen

Saturday 5 July - Bochum Total; Warnemünde Week (starts on the first Saturday in July); Wine Festival in the Kirchenstück (Mainz-Hechtsheim); Lantern Festival in Dillingen; Garlic Land Festival; Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Tuesday 8 July - SWR Dokufestival; Portfolio Day in July

Wednesday 9 July - Long Table of the Intergenerational Dialogue in Hanover (takes place on the 80th day after Easter); Little Festival in the Great Garden (Hanover); Rockharz Festival

Thursday 10 July - Beatles Day; Bike Week in Willingen; Fritzlar Horse Market; Seehasenfest in Friedrichshafen; Speyer Pretzel Festival

Friday 11 July - 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 12 July - Lighthouse Swim - Open Water Kiel; Kleve Funfair; Schützenfest in Neuss-Reuschenberg; Vogelwiese in Dresden

Sunday 13 July - International Conductor's Day

Wednesday 16 July - Indian Film Festival Stuttgart

Thursday 17 July - The festival in Karlsruhe (in recent years it starts on the third Thursday in July); 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 18 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 19 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 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); Singen Castle Festival (Hohentwiel)

Monday 21 July - Schwörwoche and Fischerstechen in Ulm (A celebration of tradition and cohesion); Kirkel Castle Summer; Hohentwielfestival Singen

Wednesday 23 July - Breminale; Düsseldorf Fashion Days

Thursday 24 July - Mit Dir Festival

Friday 25 July - Wine festival in Werder; Spielbudenfestival (In recent years, the competition has started on the Friday of the third full week in July); 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; Juicy Beats Festival in Dortmund; Annafest in Forchheim; Home and Marksmen's Festival in Zerbst; Neugersdorf Jacobimarkt; Bad Mergentheim Folk Festival; Rheinuferfest in Cologne; Doktorsee on fire, Rinten; Opladen city festival with funfair in Leverkusen; Hof Folk Festival; Schützen- and Volksfest in Fulda; Süderbrarup Brarup Market; Ueckermünde Lagoon Days; Sparrenburg Festival Bielefeld

Saturday 26 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 27 July - Stuttgart Flamenco Festival; St. Peter-Ording Kite Festival

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

Wednesday 30 July - Maschsee Festival Hanover; Rockstadt Extreme Fest; Wacken Open Air Festival (The biggest heavy metal festival worldwide)

Thursday 31 July - Rhenish Fishing Festival Gernsheim; HOA Festival or Headbangers Open Air; EmsFest in Rheine

Friday 1 August - Zissel: Kassel's folk and water festival; Mainfest in Frankfurt am Main; 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; Green Juice Festival in Bonn; Gut Sandbeck Open Air; Uelzen Town Festival

Saturday 2 August - International Festival Maritim (Starts the first weekend of August); Court Festival in Bad Camberg; European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma; Tisha beAV; Kirchweihfest in Mainz-Gonsenheim (1st weekend in August); Ziegelhütte District Festival, Ottweiler; Pirna Court Night (Pirna Old Town); Düffelward Fair

Wednesday 6 August - Husum Harbour Days

Thursday 7 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 8 August - Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany; Gäubodenfest Straubing; Wiesbaden Rheingau Wine Week; 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; 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; Micro! festival in Dortmund; Bocholt Aasee Festival; Summer Evening in Aachen; Rinteln Old Town Festival; Old Town Festival on the Heumarkt in Cologne

Saturday 9 August - Festival of Lights in Bad Wildungen; Raksha Bandhan; 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)

Monday 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 13 August - Memorial Day on the tragedy of the Berlin Wall in Germany (its construction was completed in 1961); Maritime Days, Bremen: Windjammer Festival; Bremerhaven Maritime Days

Thursday 14 August - Kronach Free Shooting; Eckernförde City Center Festival

Friday 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; European Elvis Festival; Mombach Rhine Festival; Draiser Kerb; Dresden City Festival; Echelon Festival; Rudolstadt Bird Shooting; Leipzig Water Festival; Stoppelmarkt in Vechta; Rüsselsheim Kerb; Kreuznach Fair; Autumn Fair in Ochtrup; Säubrennerkirmes in Wittlich; Old Town Festival in Wernigeride; Gifhorn Old Town Festival; Wittenberge Town and Harbor Festival; Münster Mittendrin, City Festival; Aurich Town Festival

Saturday 16 August - The Bremen Music Festival (Begins on the third Saturday in August); Celebration of the devotion to Hünkar Bektas¸ Veli; Rengesfest in Schmelz; Schmaus in Beckingen; Malle Festival in Magdeburg; Bremerhaven Open-Air Market; StreetArtFestival in Essen; Langeooger Drachenzauber; Assumption Fair in Warendorf; Wendsche Kärmetze; Bad Vilbel Market

Tuesday 19 August - Kite Festival on Wangerooge

Thursday 21 August - Sweden Festival in Wismar

Friday 22 August - Regensburg Dult (Held twice a year, in May and in August - early September); Frankfurt Museumsuferfest (takes place from the fourth Friday 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); Funhouse Festival; Bielefeld Pig Market; Cannafair in Düsseldorf; Gourmet Festival Düsseldorf; Mölln Old Town Festival; Siegburg City Festival; Spiekeroog Paper Boat Regatta; Rendsburg Autumn; St. Bartholomew's Market in Bad Ems; Rheder Kirmes; Schollenfest in Berlin; Old Town Festival Görlitz and Jakuby Festival Zgorzelec; Brokser Heiratsmarkt; Eberbach Cuckoo Market; Vilshofen Folk Festival; Nuremberg Autumn Folk Festival; Greven Fair; Bartlmädult Landshut

Saturday 23 August - Uhlenhorst District Festival, Hamburg (Starts on the fourth Saturday of August); Feuertal Festival in Wuppertal; Lippborger Market in Lippetal; Neuss Citizens' Rifle Festival; Worms Baked Fish Festival

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

Wednesday 27 August - Rheingau Wine Market (takes place on the last Wednesday in August); Ganesha Festival

Thursday 28 August - Bamberg Sandkerwa; Osterstraße Wine Festival, Hamburg (starts on the fourth Thursday in August); Day of the Russian Germans; Mainz Wine Market; Bremen WineSummer; Oldenburg City Festival; Old Town Festival Fallersleben

Friday 29 August - Erding Autumn Festival; Hessian Blues-, Schmus- & Applesauce Festival in Laubach; Lantern Festival in Germany; Wine Time in Saarbrücken; Baltic Sea in Flames - Grömitz (fireworks); Mühlhausen Town Fair; Traditional Folk Festival in Mühldorf a. Inn; Siegen City Festival; Michaelmas Fair Miltenberg; Karpfham Festival in Bad Griesbach; Grenadier Market in Pirmasens

Saturday 30 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

Monday 1 September - World Peace Day in Germany (since 1966); World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation; Beginning of the Orthodox Church Year; Intercultural Week in Erfurt

Tuesday 2 September - European Bike Week (Begins the first Tuesday in September and runs through the end of the week); Heritage Days in Erfurt

Thursday 4 September - Gillamoos Abensberg; 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); Erfurt Wine Festival; Blasheim Market in Lübbecke; Havelberg Horse Market

Friday 5 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 6 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 7 September - Day of the Homeland in Germany (Tag der Heimat); Seniors' Summer Festival in Mainz; Friedrichsort Lighthouse Festival; Light week on Wangerooge

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

Wednesday 10 September - Düsseldorf Festival

Thursday 11 September - Rheingau Literature Festival (The ten-day event begins the second Thursday in September)

Friday 12 September - Ecological and Social Market Economy Day in Germany (since 2000); 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 13 September - Mainz Science Market; Freiberg Night Shift; Lollapalooza Berlin; Maritime Week Bremen; Kempen Autumn Fair; Viersen-Süchteln Autumn Fair

Sunday 14 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; Intercultural Festival in Mainz; Citadel Festival in Mainz

Monday 15 September - Leipzig Film Art Fair

Wednesday 17 September - Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg; Stade Training Fair

Thursday 18 September - Feelings of Happiness Festival at the Hockenheimring; Stade Autumn Market; Diepholz Wholesale Market; Weiden Folk Festival

Friday 19 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); Kite Festival on Kronsberg; 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 20 September - Universal Children's Day in Germany; World Children's Day in Thuringia, Germany (an official holiday since 2019); Munich Oktoberfest; Night of the Churches Hamburg (the event was launched in 2003); Steinau Puppetry Festival; World Children's Day in Mainz (Starts on Saturday of the third full week of September); Oktoberfest

Sunday 21 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); Day of Prayer in Cologne; Jürmker Autumn Market in Bielefeld

Monday 22 September - Digital Week Dortmund

Thursday 25 September - Dental Health Day in Germany; Mainz Shines - the Late Light Festival; Nienburg Old Town Festival; Bünde Onion Market

Friday 26 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; Magdeburg Autumn Fair; Berlin Autumn Fair; Wilhelmshaven Sailing Cup; Radebeul Autumn and Wine Festival; Small Autumn Fair Leipzig; Oeseder Großkirmes in Georgsmarienhütte; Kramermarkt Oldenburg (The market begins on Friday between September 26 and October 2 and ends ten days later); Michaeliskirmes in Brilon; Krefeld Fall Fair; Schanzer Autumn Festival in Ingolstadt; Saarbrücken Oktoberfest; Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart; Zwickau Autumn Folk Festival

Saturday 27 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 28 September - Intercultural Week in Germany (Begins on the fourth Sunday in September); Stade Wedding Fair

Monday 29 September - Fürth Kärwa in Franconia

Wednesday 1 October - Siemens Day

Friday 3 October - Open Mosque Day in Germany (since 1997); German Unity Day (Germany); Emperor Otto Festival or Kaiser Otto Fest, Magdeburg; Farmers' and Regional Market in Kiel; Essen Light Festival; Festival of Lights in Berlin; Autumn Fair in Lingen; Ahlen Autumn Fair

Saturday 4 October - Merzig Viezfest; Vegefest or city festival in Vegesack, Bremen; Viersen Autumn Fair

Sunday 5 October - Thanksgiving Day in Germany (Held on the first Sunday in October); Autumn festival with children's suitcase flea market, Freiberg

Monday 6 October - German-American Day

Tuesday 7 October - World Day of Action for Decent Work

Wednesday 8 October - Portfolio Day in October

Thursday 9 October - Autumn '89 - On the streets of Leipzig (Awakening to democracy)

Friday 10 October - Day of remembrance of Saint Hüseyin

Saturday 11 October - Hannover Wiesn (starts on Friday of the second week of October); Fair in St. Ingbert; Glückstalertage Bielefeld; Festival for puppet, object and other theater; Weimar Onion Market; Einbeck Owl Festival; Anröchte Autumn Fair; Hückelhoven Autumn Fair