Baden-Württemberg, Germany public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• German Unity Day falls on Saturday 3 October and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved; Second Day of Christmas falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Germany has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 9 weekdays in Baden-Württemberg, two fewer than in 2025.

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. Each German state sets its own public holidays on top of the nine that apply everywhere.

Public holidays in 2026

12 dates are counted as non-working in Baden-Württemberg in 2026; 9 of them fall on a weekday.

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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 18 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October, 1 holiday
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 22 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Germany

Long weekends in 2026

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

• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 2026
• 3 days Saturday 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 May 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

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 Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg has one of the longest holiday lists in Germany. Its calendar is the nine days common to all states plus three of its own: Epiphany on 6 January, Corpus Christi and All Saints' Day on 1 November. The state's holiday act sets this list for the whole territory, so unlike Bavaria there is no holiday that applies in one municipality and not the next.

All three extra days have a religious origin. Corpus Christi follows Easter, falling sixty days afterwards; in 2026 it is Thursday 4 June, and Epiphany falls on Tuesday 6 January. All Saints' Day is a fixed date and in 2026 it falls on a Sunday, so it costs no working day that year.

The state's neighbours differ in ways that matter to people who commute across a border. Bavaria shares the same three days and also has the Assumption in Catholic municipalities. Hesse, to the north, has Corpus Christi but neither Epiphany nor All Saints' Day. Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland keep Corpus Christi and All Saints' Day, but not Epiphany. Reformation Day on 31 October, a holiday in the Protestant states of the north and east, is an ordinary working day in Baden-Württemberg.

A holiday that falls on a weekend is not shifted. German Unity Day is a Saturday in 2026, as is the Second Day of Christmas, and neither gives a weekday off. Employers and collective agreements sometimes grant extra leave, but that is private arrangement and is not counted here.

Some things are left out of the count on purpose. Shrove Tuesday and the Carnival period in the Swabian-Alemannic region are custom only. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are working days unless a contract says otherwise. School holidays are set separately by the education ministry. Local church festivals may be observed in a town, but the statute does not make them holidays.

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.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-NNLBW00008DAENN00000000002
• https://www.gesetze-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayFTG/true
• https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/jlr-NNLHE000051B5NN00000000002
• https://www.landesrecht.rlp.de/bsrp/document/jlr-NNLRP00006125

How the counts are made