Brandenburg, Germany public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• German Unity Day falls on Saturday 3 October and is not moved; Reformation Day falls on Saturday 31 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 Brandenburg, 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

12 dates are counted as non-working in Brandenburg 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
• Apr 20 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 18 working days in May, 4 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, 2 holidays
• 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.

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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 Brandenburg

Brandenburg surrounds Berlin, and its calendar differs from the capital's in almost every respect. The state lists twelve statutory holidays: the nine shared by all of Germany, Reformation Day on 31 October, and two that most people never notice, Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday. Those two are named in the state's holiday law but can only ever fall on a Sunday, so they shorten nobody's working week. They appear in the table because the law lists them, yet the number of working days is the same as in a state with ten holidays.

Reformation Day is the substantive addition. Brandenburg is historically Protestant, and like Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia it keeps 31 October as a day off. In 2026 the date is a Saturday, so it gives no weekday off that year. In 2027 it falls on a Sunday, and the same happens again.

Brandenburg has none of the Catholic days. Epiphany, Corpus Christi and All Saints' Day are working days, a sizeable difference from Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, where employees have three days more than the shared core.

The border with Berlin deserves a note. A resident of Brandenburg who works in the capital follows Berlin's holidays, because the holiday law of the place where the work is done applies, not that of the place where the employee lives. Berlin has International Women's Day on 8 March and no Reformation Day, so the two lists differ by one day each. This page covers a workplace in Brandenburg.

If a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, nothing replaces it. German Unity Day and the Second Day of Christmas are both Saturdays in 2026, and those holidays are simply lost to anyone who works Monday to Friday.

Several things stay outside the count. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve remain working days in law despite common early closing. Local customs and church observances carry no statutory status. School holidays are decided by the education ministry and do not enter into the calculation.

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://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/ftg_2003/6
• https://gesetze.berlin.de/bsbe/document/jlr-NNLBE000049DFNN00000000009

How the counts are made