Saxony-Anhalt, 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 8 weekdays in Saxony-Anhalt, 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 Saxony-Anhalt in 2026; 8 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• 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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Calendar and data downloads

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About public holidays in Saxony-Anhalt

Saxony-Anhalt marks eleven public holidays, and the one that makes its list unusual is Epiphany on 6 January. In Germany that day is a holiday only in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt, so it is the one Catholic-origin feast in a state with a mainly Protestant history. It is a statewide holiday with no municipal limits, and it is a fixed date: it falls on a Wednesday in 2027.

The other ten are the nine national days plus Reformation Day on 31 October. Reformation Day was on Saxony-Anhalt's list long before the north adopted it in 2018, and the state is closely associated with Martin Luther through Wittenberg and Eisleben. The result is a calendar that combines a Catholic January feast with the Protestant October one, a pairing found in no other eastern state.

Neighbouring states show how small the differences are. Saxony has Reformation Day and Repentance and Prayer Day but no Epiphany. Thuringia has Reformation Day, World Children's Day and, in some Catholic municipalities, Corpus Christi. Brandenburg also has Reformation Day and, unusually, observes Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday in law. Lower Saxony, to the west, has had Reformation Day only since 2018 and has no Epiphany. A commuter crossing any of these borders will find the working calendar shifts by a day or two at most.

Corpus Christi, All Saints' Day and the Assumption are not holidays anywhere in Saxony-Anhalt, even locally. This site therefore has no list of parish exceptions to note for this state.

The state does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend. Reformation Day is a Saturday in 2026 and a Sunday in 2027, so in both years it removes no weekday from the working total, whereas Epiphany on a Tuesday in 2026 is a normal midweek loss. The Monday after a weekend holiday stays a working day.

Days commonly treated as free but not counted here include Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, which are ordinary working days in law, local carnival events, and the school holidays set by the state education ministry. Where a collective agreement or contract grants an extra day, your own entitlement will be higher than the figures on this page.

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.sachsen-anhalt.de/bsst/document/jlr-NNLST0000411CNN00000000003
• https://revosax.sachsen.de/vorschrift_gesamt/3997/48138.html
• https://landesrecht.thueringen.de/bsth/document/jlr-NNLTH00003E03NN00000000006
• https://bravors.brandenburg.de/gesetze/ftg_2003/6
• https://www.mi.niedersachsen.de/startseite/themen/allgemeine_angelegenheiten_des_inneren/feiertagsrecht/feiertagsgesetz-61491.html

How the counts are made