Baden-Württemberg, Germany 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 11 weekdays in Baden-Württemberg, 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. Each German state sets its own public holidays on top of the nine that apply everywhere.

Public holidays in 2028

12 dates are counted as non-working in Baden-Württemberg in 2028; 11 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• 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 20 working days in June, 2 holidays
• 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 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• 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 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