Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 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; 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 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, 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

11 dates are counted as non-working in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 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, 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

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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 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern keeps eleven public holidays, and two of them set it apart from most of the country. The first is 8 March, International Women's Day, which an amendment in force since 13 July 2022 added to the state's holiday act, so the first day off was in 2023. The second is Reformation Day on 31 October, which the state kept before the northern states adopted it in 2018. The same section names 8 May, the end of the Second World War, as a day of remembrance; it is not a day off. Berlin is the only other state with a Women's Day holiday, so a worker on the Baltic coast has a day off in March that colleagues in Hamburg, Hanover or Düsseldorf do not.

The remaining nine are the days that apply in every German state: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, German Unity Day on 3 October, and the two Christmas days. Four of these move with Easter. In 2027, for example, they fall on 26 March, 29 March, 6 May and 17 May. The national picture is described on the Germany page, so this page concentrates on what Mecklenburg-Vorpommern adds or leaves out.

Compared with its neighbours the state is easy to place. Schleswig-Holstein, to the west, has Reformation Day but no Women's Day. Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt share Reformation Day with it. None of them keeps a day for Epiphany (apart from Saxony-Anhalt), Corpus Christi, Assumption or All Saints in the way the Catholic-majority south and west do. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is largely Protestant or unaffiliated, and its calendar reflects that: there are no Catholic feast days at all, not even as a local exception.

Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are lost. German state law contains no rule that moves them to a weekday, and employers owe no replacement day. Reformation Day falls on a Saturday in 2026 and a Sunday in 2027, while Women's Day falls on a Monday in 2027. This site therefore keeps a weekend holiday on the list but removes no weekday from the working total, and the following Monday remains a working day.

Several days that many people treat as free are not counted. Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday are always on a Sunday, so they would add nothing in any case. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ordinary working days in law, even though many employers close early or give the time off by agreement. Local fairs and school holidays, which in this state follow a separate calendar, do not change the count. Only the days named in the state holiday act are used here, so an employee whose contract grants more should add those days to the figures.

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-mv.de/bsmv/document/jlr-NNLMV00007A2FNN00000000003
• https://www.gesetze-rechtsprechung.sh.juris.de/bssh/document/jlr-NNLSH00003261NN00000000005
• https://www.landesrecht.sachsen-anhalt.de/bsst/document/jlr-NNLST0000411CNN00000000003

How the counts are made