Hamburg, 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 Hamburg, 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 Hamburg 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, 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, 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

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Countdown

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The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

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Calendar and data downloads

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About public holidays in Hamburg

Hamburg observes ten public holidays. Nine are the days that every German state keeps, and the tenth, Reformation Day on 31 October, has applied since 2018. The Bürgerschaft, the city's parliament, approved the change in early 2018, and the new wording of the holiday act has applied since 21 March 2018. Schleswig-Holstein made the same change that spring, and Bremen and Lower Saxony followed by the summer.

The reasoning was comparative. The northern states had fewer days off than the southern ones, where Catholic holidays add up to three or four, and a common northern holiday was a way to close part of the gap. Choosing 31 October rather than a Catholic date reflects the region's Protestant history.

Hamburg is therefore on the same footing as Bremen, Lower Saxony and Hesse. It has no Epiphany, no Corpus Christi, no All Saints' Day and no Assumption. A person moving to the city from Bavaria gives up three Catholic holidays and gains Reformation Day, two fewer in all; one moving from Schleswig-Holstein sees no change, since the lists match.

The weekend affects the count in a simple but sometimes disappointing way. Reformation Day falls on a Saturday in 2026, and so do German Unity Day and the Second Day of Christmas. None of them is moved, and no weekday is offered instead. The tenth holiday only helps in years when 31 October lands Monday to Friday.

Several things outside the statute are omitted. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are normal working days unless a contract or collective agreement says otherwise. Harbour festivals and the fairground market are public events without holiday status. School holidays are decided by the education authority and do not alter the figures.

Hamburg is a single jurisdiction in these counts: the law applies uniformly to all its districts, and there is no municipal exception to set aside.

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.landesrecht-hamburg.de/bsha/document/jlr-NNLHH00006CB9
• https://www.gesetze-rechtsprechung.sh.juris.de/bssh/document/jlr-NNLSH00003261NN00000000005
• https://www.mi.niedersachsen.de/startseite/themen/allgemeine_angelegenheiten_des_inneren/feiertagsrecht/feiertagsgesetz-61491.html

How the counts are made