Holiday Calendar for Germany

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 - 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

Friday 30 October - Autumn Fair in Wuppertal; Karlsruhe Autumn Fair; Neuruppiner Martinimarkt; Cologne Autumn Folk Festival

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); Fête de la Gastronomie in Mainz

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

Tuesday 3 November - International Day for Biosphere Reserves; World Men's Day in Germany; euro-scene Leipzig - Festival of contemporary European theater

Wednesday 4 November - All Saints' Fair in Soest

Thursday 5 November - World Romani Language Day

Friday 6 November - Hochheim Market; Osnabrück Autumn Fair; Winter Dome Hamburg; Parchim Martini Market

Saturday 7 November - Mainz Book Fair; Kiel's Sea of Lights; Dynamite Ska Festival in Leipzig; Minden Autumn Fair; Zetel Market; St. Martin's Market in Nottuln

Sunday 8 November - Intersex Day of Remembrance

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

Tuesday 10 November - Martinisingen (Germany)

Wednesday 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

Sunday 15 November - National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag in Germany (Observed two Sundays before the first of Advent); European Dystonia Day; Stadtwerke Ice Festival

Wednesday 18 November - Made in Germany Festival; French Film Festival in Leipzig

Thursday 19 November - National Soup Day in Germany

Friday 20 November - Transgender Day of Remembrance; National Reading Aloud Day in Germany

Saturday 21 November - Advent market in Mainz-Ebersheim

Sunday 22 November - Musician's Day; Sunday of the Dead in Germany

Monday 23 November - European Day of Homelessness

Tuesday 24 November - Erfurt Christmas Market; Freiberg Christmas Market

Wednesday 25 November - General Day of Repentance and Prayer in Germany (Held on the Wednesday before the last Sunday of the church year)

Friday 27 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 28 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 29 November - Advent Sunday (Western Christianity); Advent get-together - Lerchenberg lights up for Christmas; Advent market in Hartenberg - Münchfeld

Monday 30 November - Kiel Christmas Market; Stade Christmas Market

Wednesday 2 December - World Futures Day; Striezelmarkt in Dresden

Thursday 3 December - Mainz Christmas market at the cathedral; Baden-Württemberg Youth Film Award; Kläschenmarkt in Lemgo (Christmas market)

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

Saturday 5 December - Advent market in Bretzenheim

Sunday 6 December - The Second Sunday of Advent (is the third last Sunday before Christmas Day); Advent Market in Bielefeld

Tuesday 8 December - Bodhi Day in Japan

Saturday 12 December - Hechtsheim Christmas Market

Sunday 13 December - 3rd Advent

Saturday 19 December - 4th Advent

Friday 25 December - Rough nights; Christmas Day

Saturday 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)

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

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

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

Wednesday 6 January - Epiphany Cake in Germany

Thursday 7 January - World Postage Stamp Day or Philatelist Day

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

Tuesday 12 January - Portfolio Day in January

Monday 18 January - World Snowman Day

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

Friday 22 January - Franco-German Day

Saturday 23 January - Night of Redemption

Monday 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)

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

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

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

Friday 29 January - International Car Day; Currywurst Festival in Neuwied

Tuesday 2 February - Candlemas (Feast of the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. Western Christianity)

Thursday 4 February - The Fools' Court in Stockach (political spectacle for 660 years); Weiberfastnacht in Germany (Held on the Thursday before Lent)

Friday 5 February - Allianz Day

Saturday 6 February - Carnival Parade in Germany

Sunday 7 February - Fastelavn in Denmark and Norway (day on which Shrove Monday can fall)

Monday 8 February - Rosenmontag in Germany (Conducted the day before Ash Wednesday)

Tuesday 9 February - Shrove Tuesday in Germany (also known as Carnival Tuesday, Fasnets-Zeisdig, Veilchendienstag, Fasnacht Tuesday or Fastnachtsdienstag or Narrenkirchweih)

Wednesday 10 February - Festival of Saraswati

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

Sunday 14 February - World Mettbröthen Day; Valentine’s Day

Thursday 18 February - Rheingau Gourmet and Wine Festival

Sunday 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)

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

Saturday 27 February - Spring Send Münster

Friday 5 March - World Day of Prayer

Saturday 6 March - Würzburg Spring Festival

Sunday 7 March - BMW Day (BMW Group); The Heidelberg Summer Day procession (a spectacle at the turn of the seasons); Equal Pay Day in Germany

Friday 12 March - Palmkirmes in Recklinghausen

Saturday 13 March - World Riesling Day (The First Annual Riesling Birthday was celebrated in 2019); Eberbach Wild Garlic Days; Irish Folk Festival, Magdeburg

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

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

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

Friday 19 March - Spring Dippemess (It begins the week before Easter according to Western tradition); Osterwiese in Bremen (closed on Good Friday)

Saturday 20 March - freDOlino in Dortmund

Monday 22 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)

Thursday 25 March - Maundy Thursday (Christian tradition. Supper of Jesus Christ with his disciples before his cross suffering); Annunciation of the Virgin Mary; Speyer Spring Fair

Friday 26 March - Hamburger Dom (folk festival); Berlin Spring Festival (begins on the Friday of the last full week in March); Ostermünde (Brügmanngarten Travemünde); Good Friday

Saturday 27 March - Holy Saturday; Technorama Kassel; Streetfood Festival at Easter in Bad Zwischenahn (Starts on Holy Saturday, lasts 3 days); Hanover Spring Festival; Homburg Easter Fair; Giessen Spring 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 28 March - 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); Spring festival of Wilstedt traders with flea market (starts on the fourth Sunday in March); Easter

Monday 29 March - Easter Monday (Påskedag in Norway)

Wednesday 31 March - Techno-Classica in Essen

Friday 2 April - International Fact-Checking Day

Sunday 4 April - White Sunday (It falls on the next Sunday after Easter)

Tuesday 6 April - Night of Destiny

Thursday 8 April - Hana Matsuri in Japan

Friday 9 April - Spring Fair or Frühjahrsdult in Landshut; Braunschweig Spring Fair; Castrop-Rauxel Spring Fair; Düsseldorf Spring Fair

Saturday 10 April - Art and Street Food Weekend Ladenburg

Tuesday 13 April - Portfolio Day in April

Wednesday 14 April - International Provenance Research Day (Held on the second Wednesday of April)

Friday 16 April - Darmstadt Spring Fair; Coburg Spring Festival

Sunday 18 April - International Jugglers' Day

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

Tuesday 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

Wednesday 21 April - Yazidi New Year; International Banana Day

Thursday 22 April - Girls' Day and Boys' Day in Germany

Friday 23 April - German Beer Day in Germany; Saint George's Day; Munich Spring Festival (begins on the Friday of the third full week in April); Spring Fair in Krefeld; World Labrador Day

Saturday 24 April - 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

Sunday 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.); Hamburg Marathon; Hanover Cherry Blossom Festival (Begins on Sunday of the third full week of April); Spring Sunday Shopping in Mainz; International Financial Independence Day

Monday 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); Warnemünde Spring Walk (opening of the season)

Tuesday 27 April - Game Designers' Day

Friday 30 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); Ascension market Kempten; May Festival in Saarbrücken; Schmelzer Week; Hexentanz Festival; Street Food Festival in Recklinghausen; Dresden Spring Market; Spring Market at Gut Basthorst; Ochtrup Spring Fair; MaiN-Festival in Rüsselsheim; Rastatt Spring Market; Weiden Spring Festival; Great May Fair in Remscheid; Zwickau Spring Folk Festival; Wolfsburg shooting and folk festival; Markt Indersdorf folk festival; Day of Nonviolent Education

Saturday 1 May - Easter street festival in Hamburg; Altländer Blossom Festival in Jork; 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; Minden May Fair; May Fair in Ahlen; InselWeinMacher Day; International Drone Day; International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Sunday 2 May - Deister Day; Gutenberg Half Marathon Mainz

Tuesday 4 May - OMR Festival in Hamburg

Wednesday 5 May - Arolsen Baroque Festival; Traunstein Spring Festival (starts on Father's Day evening); Schmelzer Schmackes; Realtime or International Festival for New Music

Thursday 6 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 7 May - Blood ride in Weingarten (A mystical horse procession); Constance Campus Festival; Karl May Festival in Radebeul; Lingen Spring Fair; Donatus May Fair in Euskirchen; Rheydter Frühkirmes in Mönchengladbach

Saturday 8 May - Anniversary of the liberation from National Socialism; Dillingen Arts and Crafts Market; Braunacht in Saarlouis; Fair in Schmelz-Michelbach; Herb Weeks on Western Lake Constance; Liberation Day in Berlin

Sunday 9 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); 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); 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 10 May - Book Day in Germany; World Poultry Day

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

Thursday 13 May - Erlangen Bergkirchweih; Schlossgrabenfest (begins the Thursday before Trinity)

Friday 14 May - Brothers Grimm Festival in Hanau; Garden Festival in the Georgengarten; Open Ohr Festival; Ikarus Festival; Turnerjahrmarkt in Zweibrücken; Whitsun Fair in Neuwied; Spectaculum Magdeburgense; Magdeburg City Festival; Thuringian Castle Days; Kawa Festival; Maidult in Regensburg; Freiburg Spring Fair; 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 15 May - Dragon Boat Festival in Hanover; Pretzel Festival on the Landskrone (Heppingen); Merzig Open-Air Season; Whitsun Fair in Eppelborn (Pfingstkirmes in Eppelborn); Whitsun Fair in Menden; Kirkel Medieval Market; Funfair in Neunkirchen-Furpach; Whitsun Fair in Neunkirchen-Wiebelskirchen; Dresden Jazz Mile; 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 16 May - Cake and Fountain Festival in Schwäbisch Hall (The spectacle begins at Pentecost); Wine Tour Mainz-Ebersheim; Saar Pedal in Merzig; Dixieland Parade (start on the Terrassenufer at the Carola Bridge); Bayou Festival in Erfurt

Monday 17 May - Whit Monday (celebrated on the day after Pentecost); German Mill Day

Wednesday 19 May - Freßgassfest in Frankfurt

Thursday 20 May - International HR Day

Friday 21 May - European Natura 2000 Day; World Tipping Day

Saturday 22 May - International Fireworks Competition (starts on the Saturday of the third full week of May); Berger Street Festival in Frankfurt am Main; Hagen Biodiversity Day; Kleinenbroich Shooting Festival; Lauterbach Premium Market

Sunday 23 May - Constitution Day in Germany; Feast of the Holy Trinity

Tuesday 25 May - German Diversity Day

Wednesday 26 May - Hambach Music Festival; Erkrath Shooting and Folk Festival; Corpus Christi Fair in Oberhausen

Thursday 27 May - Emergency Medicine Day; 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; Hofen Summer Festival; Immergut Festival; Karlsruhe Spring Fair; Procession of God in Mülheim; Early Fair in Viersen; Lambertus Market in Erkelenz

Friday 28 May - Volkswagen Day; Hussite Festival in Bernau; Willingen Bike Festival; Gaadefelder Kerb Mainz, Goetheplatz; Homburg May Festival; Halveran Fair; Annaberg Kät

Saturday 29 May - Japan Day in Düsseldorf (Celebrated on the last Saturday of May); Erdbeerfest or Strawberry Festival in Germany (Last Saturday in May); Nördlinger Mess

Sunday 30 May - Art at Staden, Saarbrücken; Farmers', craftsmen's and winegrowers' market in St. Wendel; Bremen Week of the Garden

Monday 31 May - European Siblings' Day; Essen Summer of Science

Thursday 3 June - European Bicycle Day (celebrated since 1998); Emmes in Saarlouis

Friday 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); Rock am Ring (starts on the first Friday in June and runs all weekend long); Strawberry Festival in Mainz-Gonsenheim; Regensburg Citizens' Festival; Ottweiler Old Town Festival; St. Wendel Town Festival; Freiberg US Car Meeting; Dance Sport Festival in Bremen; Leipzig City Festival

Saturday 5 June - Night of the Museums in Hanover; Eltville Rose Days; Festival in the Vogelviertel; Verden Cathedral Fair; Day of the Bundeswehr (Open House Day)

Sunday 6 June - German Visually Impaired Day; UNESCO World Heritage Day in Germany; Children's Media Festival - Goldener Spatz; 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)

Tuesday 8 June - Marine Conservation City Day in Kiel

Thursday 10 June - Wismar Harbor Days; Culture City Festival in Dillingen; Freiberg Mining Festival; Medimeisterschaften or Medis Festival; Schumann Festival Zwickau and International Robert Schumann Competition

Friday 11 June - 48h Wilhelmsburg; International Day of the Caregiver; Hive Festival; Waderner Maad; Organic Field Day; Limo-Disco in Freiberg; 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 12 June - Garlic Land Festival; Festival of Choirs (Dortmund Music Festival); International Yarn Bombing Day (second Saturday in June)

Sunday 13 June - MoGo or motorcycle service in Hamburg's Michel church (Motorradgottesdienst Starts on Sunday of the second week of June)

Tuesday 15 June - MINT-MACHEN-Festival in Magdeburg; SWR Dokufestival

Wednesday 16 June - Long Table of the Intergenerational Dialogue in Hanover (takes place on the 80th day after Easter)

Thursday 17 June - Day of remembrance of the popular uprising in the GDR; Campus Festival in Dresden; Campus Festival Bielefeld

Friday 18 June - Ebbelwoi Festival in Langen; International Day for Combating Hate Speech; Hurricane Festival; Traunstein Rose Days; Blieskastel Old Town Festival; Krämerbrücken Festival; Stade Old Town Festival; Southside Festival

Saturday 19 June - Vierländer Strawberry Festival (Starts on the third Saturday in June); Deisterstraße Festival (Hannover); Kiel Week; World Juggling Day (It will be held on the Saturday closest to June 17)

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

Monday 21 June - Sleep Day in Germany (Tag des Schlafes); Whit Monday according to Eastern Christian tradition; 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)

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

Thursday 24 June - International Day of Women in Diplomacy; Studi Festival Siegen; Filmnächte am Elbufer in Dresden; Wimpfen Valley Market

Friday 25 June - 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 26 June - Ratcatcher's Day (Hamelin, 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 27 June - Seven Sleepers' Day or Siebenschläfertag (Germany); Three Bridges Run Mainz

Monday 28 June - Daimler Day

Wednesday 30 June - Breminale; Fusion Festival

Thursday 1 July - Heinerfest in Darmstadt; Day against anti-Muslim racism; St. John's Festival Eschwege

Friday 2 July - Würzburg Kiliani folk festival; Commemoration of the Sivas massacre; 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 3 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

Tuesday 6 July - Ratha Yatra (Held on the second day of Shukla Pakshi of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha)

Wednesday 7 July - Little Festival in the Great Garden (Hanover); Rockharz Festival

Thursday 8 July - Bike Week in Willingen; Fritzlar Horse Market; Seehasenfest in Friedrichshafen; Speyer Pretzel Festival

Friday 9 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 10 July - Beatles Day; Lighthouse Swim - Open Water Kiel; Kleve Funfair; Schützenfest in Neuss-Reuschenberg; Vogelwiese in Dresden

Tuesday 13 July - International Conductor's Day; Portfolio Day in July

Thursday 15 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 16 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 17 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 18 July - Singen Castle Festival (Hohentwiel)

Monday 19 July - Schwörwoche and Fischerstechen in Ulm (A celebration of tradition and cohesion); Kirkel Castle Summer

Tuesday 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)

Wednesday 21 July - Hohentwielfestival Singen; Indian Film Festival Stuttgart; Düsseldorf Fashion Days

Thursday 22 July - The festival in Karlsruhe (in recent years it starts on the third Thursday in July); Mit Dir Festival

Friday 23 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 24 July - French Market Festival in Neuwied; Street Mag Show Hannover (starts on Saturday of the third full week in July); Sommerlibori in Paderborn

Sunday 25 July - Stuttgart Flamenco Festival; St. Peter-Ording Kite Festival

Wednesday 28 July - Maschsee Festival Hanover; UNESCO Recognition Day in Mainz (Old Jewish Cemetery Judensand); Rockstadt Extreme Fest; Wacken Open Air Festival (The biggest heavy metal festival worldwide)

Thursday 29 July - Rhenish Fishing Festival Gernsheim; HOA Festival or Headbangers Open Air; EmsFest in Rheine

Friday 30 July - Wine festival in Werder; 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 31 July - Vegan Street Festival Hamburg (It takes place on the last Saturday in July); Bostalsee Lake Festival; Summer Music Days Hitzacker; Jacobi Fair in Ascheberg; Annakirmes in Düren; Materborn Fair

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

Wednesday 4 August - Husum Harbour Days

Thursday 5 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 6 August - Zissel: Kassel's folk and water festival; 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 7 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); Pyro Games Magdeburg (duel of the fireworks); Düffelward Fair

Sunday 8 August - Peace Festival in Augsburg, Germany

Wednesday 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); Tisha beAV; Maritime Days, Bremen: Windjammer Festival; Bremerhaven Maritime Days

Thursday 12 August - Kronach Free Shooting; Eckernförde City Center Festival

Friday 13 August - Memorial Day on the tragedy of the Berlin Wall in Germany (its construction was completed in 1961); 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 14 August - Festival of Lights in Bad Wildungen; 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); M'era Luna Festival; Schmaus in Beckingen; Malle Festival in Magdeburg; StreetArtFestival in Essen; Drachenstich in Furth im Wald (The Drachenstich is part of the Furth im Wald folk festival); Langeooger Drachenzauber; Assumption Fair in Warendorf; Wendsche Kärmetze; Bad Vilbel Market

Sunday 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

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

Tuesday 17 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; Raksha Bandhan; Kite Festival on Wangerooge

Thursday 19 August - Sweden Festival in Wismar

Friday 20 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 21 August - The Bremen Music Festival (Begins on the third Saturday in August); Rengesfest in Schmelz; Feuertal Festival in Wuppertal

Sunday 22 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)

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

Wednesday 25 August - Rheingau Wine Market (takes place on the last Wednesday in August)

Thursday 26 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 27 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; 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 28 August - Rosenheim Autumn Festival; Uhlenhorst District Festival, Hamburg (Starts on the fourth Saturday of August); Family Day in Hamburg (Celebrated on the last Saturday in August); Guild Market in Bad Wimpfen; Vogteifest in Burbach; Day of the Russian Germans; Olvenstedt Summer Festival; MAMF in Stade (Must all attend festival); Good Climate Festival in Essen; Lippborger Market in Lippetal; Bad Harzburg Salt and Light Festival; Neuss Citizens' Rifle Festival; Worms Baked Fish Festival

Wednesday 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

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

Saturday 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

Sunday 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

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

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

Thursday 9 September - Düsseldorf Festival

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

Saturday 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

Sunday 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)

Monday 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

Wednesday 15 September - Ganesha Festival

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

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

Saturday 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; Oktoberfest

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

Monday 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

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

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

Saturday 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

Sunday 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

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

Tuesday 28 September - Digital Week Dortmund

Wednesday 29 September - Fürth Kärwa in Franconia

Friday 1 October - Siemens Day

Saturday 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

Sunday 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

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

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

Thursday 7 October - World Day of Action for Decent Work

Saturday 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

Sunday 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

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

Tuesday 12 October - Lullusfest in Germany (the week including October 16, starting Monday)

Wednesday 13 October - Portfolio Day in October

Friday 15 October - Limburg Oktoberfest

Saturday 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)

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