Germany (nationwide) public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved, because Germany has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 8 weekdays in Germany (nationwide), three more than in 2027.

Germany has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so the following Monday stays a working day in these counts. These are the nine public holidays that apply in every German state. Every state adds at least one more, so a state's page gives its working days.

Public holidays in 2028

9 dates are counted as non-working in Germany (nationwide) in 2028; 8 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 23 working days in August
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 21 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 22 working days in November
• Dec 19 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Germany

Long weekends in 2028

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 4 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 29 April 2028 to Monday 1 May 2028
• 3 days Saturday 3 June 2028 to Monday 5 June 2028
• 4 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Tuesday 26 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 30 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029

Best days to take leave in 2028

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

Try any budget from 1 to 30 days in the leave planner

Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Germany (nationwide)

This page is the calendar of days off that apply in every German state at once, which makes it a floor rather than a working calendar. No employee lives in "Germany" as a legal unit: the holiday acts belong to the states, and each state adds days of its own to the shared core. Anyone who needs an accurate count of working days should open the page for the state in which they work.

The shared core consists of the nine days listed in the national introduction. Only one of them, 3 October, rests on federal law. The rest are in every state's act because all sixteen legislatures happened to choose them, not because Berlin requires it. This page is built as the intersection of the sixteen state calendars, so a day appears here only if it is a holiday in every state without exception. That is why Epiphany, Corpus Christi, All Saints' Day and Reformation Day are absent: each is missing in at least one state.

The practical effect is that the count shown here is the lowest anywhere in the country. A worker in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg has three more public holidays than the figure here, a worker in Brandenburg has three more, and a worker in Hesse, Bremen, Hamburg or Lower Saxony has one more. Using this page for payroll, leave planning or a contract date would therefore understate the days off almost everywhere.

Germany has no statutory substitute day. In 2026 German Unity Day falls on a Saturday, Christmas Day on a Friday and the Second Day of Christmas on a Saturday, and the Saturday ones are simply lost to employees whose week runs from Monday to Friday. Nothing is added on the following Monday.

Some days that many people treat as free are deliberately left out. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ordinary working days in law, although many employers close early or give leave. Carnival Monday is a custom in parts of the Rhineland, not a holiday. School holidays are set by education ministries and do not change working-day counts. Municipal holidays, such as the Augsburg Peace Festival, are described on the page of the state that contains the municipality.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/einigvtr/art_2.html
• https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayFTG/true
• https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-NNLBW00008DAENN00000000002
• https://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/ftg_2003/6
• https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/jlr-NNLHE000051B5NN00000000002
• https://www.mi.niedersachsen.de/startseite/themen/allgemeine_angelegenheiten_des_inneren/feiertagsrecht/feiertagsgesetz-61491.html

How the counts are made