Berlin, 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 9 weekdays in Berlin, 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

11 dates are counted as non-working in Berlin in 2028; 9 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 22 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 21 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 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 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