Bavaria, 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 Bavaria, 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. Assumption Day (15 August) is a public holiday only in municipalities with a mainly Catholic population; it is listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

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

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

1 more day is a holiday only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. It is not counted as a non-working day here.

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 Bavaria

Bavaria's holiday calendar is set by the Act on the Protection of Sundays and Holidays, whose first article separates days that apply across the whole state from days that apply only in certain places. That split makes Bavaria the German state where the town of work matters most: Saxony and Thuringia each have one day that applies only in some places, Bavaria has two.

Across the entire state, the act lists the nine days found everywhere in Germany and adds Epiphany, Corpus Christi and All Saints' Day. That gives twelve statewide holidays, the same figure as Baden-Württemberg. In 2026 Epiphany is Tuesday 6 January and Corpus Christi is Thursday 4 June, while All Saints' Day falls on a Sunday.

The Assumption, on 15 August, is a statutory holiday only in municipalities with a predominantly Catholic population. The act itself contains no list of these municipalities: the State Office for Statistics works out from the latest census where Catholics outnumber Protestants, and each municipality where the day applies announces it locally. A large share of Bavarian towns qualify, but not all. In a Protestant-majority town, 15 August is an ordinary day. This site marks the Assumption as an extra day and does not add it to the count, because a single figure for the whole state would be wrong for someone.

A second exception is the Peace Festival, which the act makes a holiday on 8 August in the city of Augsburg alone. It is a municipal holiday in practice and applies to nobody who works outside the city boundary. It is not counted here and is not shown in the tables either. Both exceptions fall on a Saturday in 2026, so they would not have cost a weekday that year.

Neighbouring states differ. Baden-Württemberg has the same three extra days but no local variants. Hesse has only Corpus Christi, Thuringia and Saxony treat Corpus Christi as a local matter, and Reformation Day on 31 October is not a holiday in Bavaria.

A holiday that falls on a weekend is not moved, and no day in lieu is given. The Christmas period shows this plainly in 2026: the Second Day of Christmas falls on a Saturday, so it removes no working day.

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-bayern.de/Content/Document/BayFTG/true
• https://www.landesrecht-bw.de/bsbw/document/jlr-NNLBW00008DAENN00000000002
• https://www.rv.hessenrecht.hessen.de/bshe/document/jlr-NNLHE000051B5NN00000000002
• https://revosax.sachsen.de/vorschrift_gesamt/3997/48138.html
• https://landesrecht.thueringen.de/bsth/document/jlr-NNLTH00003E03NN00000000006

How the counts are made