Saxony-Anhalt, 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 10 weekdays in Saxony-Anhalt, 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

11 dates are counted as non-working in Saxony-Anhalt in 2028; 10 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 21 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• 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.

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Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

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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