Thuringia, Germany public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• World Children's Day falls on Sunday 20 September 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 Thuringia, 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. Corpus Christi is a public holiday only in some municipalities with a Catholic tradition; it is listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

11 dates are counted as non-working in Thuringia in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

1 more day is a holiday only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. It is not counted as a non-working day here.

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, 1 holiday
• Oct 22 working days in October, 2 holidays
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 22 working days in December, 2 holidays

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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

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Countdown

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Calendar and data downloads

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About public holidays in Thuringia

Thuringia counts eleven statutory holidays, and one of them exists nowhere else in Germany: World Children's Day on 20 September. The Landtag added it to the holiday act with effect from 27 March 2019, and it was first a day off that September. It has an obvious practical effect, since it falls on a Monday in 2027 and creates a long weekend. The state's act on holidays and commemoration days also covers the other days on the list.

The ten others are the nine national days and Reformation Day on 31 October, which Thuringia's act already listed before 2019, as do the acts of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. Thuringia has no Epiphany, no Repentance Day, no Women's Day, and no statewide Catholic feasts.

Corpus Christi is partial. The act does not list it among the statewide days; instead it lets the ministry responsible for holidays make it a holiday, by ordinance, in municipalities with a mostly Catholic population. This site lists Corpus Christi as observed only in some Catholic municipalities and does not count it, so employees in those areas have one more day off than the totals show. Everywhere else in the state it is a normal working day on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.

Compared with the neighbours, Thuringia differs by one or two days. Saxony has Repentance Day instead of World Children's Day. Saxony-Anhalt has Epiphany instead. Hesse and Bavaria, on the south-west and south, keep Corpus Christi, and Bavaria also has Epiphany. Lower Saxony, which lies to the north-west, has no World Children's Day.

German state law does not move a holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday, and no replacement is owed. In 2026 World Children's Day is a Sunday and Reformation Day a Saturday, so neither takes anything from the working week. The following Monday counts as an ordinary working day. Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and the school holidays are not statutory days off and are left out of the figures; contracts or collective agreements may add them for particular employees.

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://landesrecht.thueringen.de/bsth/document/jlr-NNLTH00003E03NN00000000006
• https://revosax.sachsen.de/vorschrift_gesamt/3997/48138.html
• https://www.landesrecht.sachsen-anhalt.de/bsst/document/jlr-NNLST0000411CNN00000000003

How the counts are made