Berlin, Germany public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• Women's Day falls on Sunday 8 March and is not moved; German Unity Day falls on Saturday 3 October 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 7 weekdays in Berlin, three 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

10 dates are counted as non-working in Berlin in 2026; 7 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 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 18 working days in May, 3 holidays
• Jun 22 working days in June
• 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
• 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 Berlin

Berlin has a short list by German standards. Besides the nine days that every state observes, it has a single holiday of its own: International Women's Day on 8 March. That makes ten statutory days off, close to the minimum anywhere in Germany. The city is unusual in having neither Catholic holidays such as Epiphany, Corpus Christi and All Saints' Day, nor Reformation Day.

Women's Day was introduced in 2019 by an amendment to the city-state's holiday law, passed by the House of Representatives in January of that year. Berlin was the first state to adopt it, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern followed with an amendment that took effect in July 2022, so 8 March has been a day off there since 2023. In every other state, including neighbouring Brandenburg, 8 March remains a working day, which matters for the many people who live in Brandenburg and commute into the capital.

Because Women's Day has a fixed date, it falls on any weekday of the week. In 2026 it falls on a Sunday and therefore removes no working day from the year, whereas in 2024 it landed on a Friday. Counts of working days in Berlin vary by one from year to year for this reason alone.

Reformation Day is a point of confusion. It was a holiday in Berlin once, on 31 October 2017, as a one-off for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. It was never made permanent, so it is not part of the calendar here. Likewise, the one-off days off on 8 May 2020 and 8 May 2025, for the anniversary of the end of the Second World War, applied only to those years and are not repeated. The current act already names the next one: in 2028 the 75th anniversary of the uprising of 17 June 1953 will be a one-off holiday, which this site shows in that year's table.

A holiday that lands on a Saturday or Sunday is not shifted to another day, as is the rule in the whole of Germany. In 2026 German Unity Day and the Second Day of Christmas both fall on a Saturday and give nothing in return.

Nothing is left out of the Berlin count apart from days of custom, such as Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, which are ordinary working days unless a contract or agreement gives leave.

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://gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/document/jlr-NNLBE000049DFNN00000000009
• https://www.landesrecht-mv.de/bsmv/document/jlr-NNLMV00007A2FNN00000000003
• https://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/ftg_2003/6

How the counts are made