Holiday Calendar for Germany

Monday 25 December - Christmas Day

Tuesday 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)

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

Saturday 6 January - Epiphany Cake in Germany

Sunday 7 January - World Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day

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

Sunday 21 January - European Day of Mediation

Monday 22 January - Franco-German Day

Thursday 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)

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

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

Monday 5 February - Allianz Day

Sunday 11 February - Fastelavn in Denmark and Norway (day on which Shrove Monday can fall); European 112 Day (emergency call services)

Tuesday 13 February - Rosenmontag in Germany (Conducted the day before Ash Wednesday)

Wednesday 14 February - Valentine’s Day

Wednesday 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)

Thursday 22 February - European Day for Equal Pay Men and Women

Thursday 7 March - BMW Day (BMW Group)

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

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

Sunday 31 March - Easter

Tuesday 23 April - German Beer Day in Germany

Thursday 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.)

Friday 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)

Saturday 27 April - Game Designers' Day

Thursday 9 May - Father's Day in Germany (Vatertag is always celebrated on Ascension Day); 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)

Friday 10 May - Book Day in Germany

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

Sunday 12 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)

Tuesday 21 May - European Natura 2000 Day

Thursday 23 May - Constitution Day in Germany

Saturday 25 May - Japan Day in Düsseldorf (date for 2024. Celebrated on the last Saturday of May); Erdbeerfest or Strawberry Festival in Germany (Last Saturday in May)

Monday 27 May - Emergency Medicine Day

Tuesday 28 May - Volkswagen Day

Friday 31 May - European Siblings' Day

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 20 June - Memorial Day for Victims of Flight and Exile in Germany (since 2015)

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

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

Thursday 27 June - Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany)

Friday 28 June - Daimler Day

Wednesday 10 July - Beatles Day

Saturday 13 July - International Conductor's Day

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)

Thursday 8 August - Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany

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)

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)

Sunday 1 September - World Peace Day in Germany (since 1966); Day of the Homeland in Germany (Tag der Heimat)

Saturday 7 September - National Coffee Day in Germany (Celebrated on the first Saturday in September)

Sunday 8 September - Open Monument Day in Germany (Held on the second Sunday in September)

Thursday 12 September - Ecological and Social Market Economy Day in Germany (since 2000)

Friday 20 September - Universal Children's Day in Germany; World Children's Day in Thuringia, Germany (an official holiday since 2019)

Saturday 21 September - Oktoberfest

Friday 27 September - European Researchers' Night; German Butterbrot Day (Tag des Deutschen Butterbrots)

Tuesday 1 October - Siemens Day

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

Sunday 6 October - German-American Day

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

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)

Sunday 3 November - International Day for Biosphere Reserves

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)

Friday 15 November - European Dystonia Day

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

Friday 22 November - Musician's Day

Saturday 23 November - European Day of Homelessness

Monday 2 December - World Futures Day