Brandenburg, 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 Brandenburg, four 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 Brandenburg 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 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 3 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 20 working days in October, 2 holidays
• 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 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