Thuringia, 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 Thuringia, 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. Corpus Christi is a public holiday only in some municipalities with a Catholic tradition; it is listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2028

11 dates are counted as non-working in Thuringia in 2028; 10 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule
• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

1 more day is a holiday only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. 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 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 20 working days in September, 1 holiday
• 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.

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

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Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

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