Germany public holidays 2027
Germany has 9 national public holidays in 2027. Take those and the weekends out of the calendar and 256 working days remain.
Holiday list for 2027
| Date | Weekday | Holiday | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan | Friday | New Year's Day
Neujahr |
Nationwide |
| 6 Jan | Wednesday | Epiphany
Heilige Drei Könige |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-ST |
| 8 Mar | Monday | International Women's Day
Internationaler Frauentag |
DE-BE, DE-MV |
| 26 Mar | Friday | Good Friday
Karfreitag |
Nationwide |
| 28 Mar | Sunday rest day | Easter Sunday
Ostersonntag |
DE-BB |
| 29 Mar | Monday | Easter Monday
Ostermontag |
Nationwide |
| 1 May | Saturday rest day | Labour Day
Tag der Arbeit |
Nationwide |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day
Christi Himmelfahrt |
Nationwide |
| 16 May | Sunday rest day | Pentecost
Pfingstsonntag |
DE-BB |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday
Pfingstmontag |
Nationwide |
| 27 May | Thursday | Corpus Christi
Fronleichnam |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-HE, DE-NW, DE-RP, DE-SL |
| 15 Aug | Sunday rest day | Assumption Day
Mariä Himmelfahrt |
DE-SL |
| 20 Sep | Monday | World Children's Day
Weltkindertag |
DE-TH |
| 3 Oct | Sunday rest day | German Unity Day
Tag der Deutschen Einheit |
Nationwide |
| 31 Oct | Sunday rest day | Reformation Day
Reformationstag |
DE-BB, DE-MV, DE-SN, DE-ST, DE-TH, DE-HB, DE-HH, DE-NI, DE-SH |
| 1 Nov | Monday | All Saints' Day
Allerheiligen |
DE-BW, DE-BY, DE-NW, DE-RP, DE-SL |
| 17 Nov | Wednesday | Repentance and Prayer Day
Buß- und Bettag |
DE-SN |
| 25 Dec | Saturday rest day | Christmas Day
Erster Weihnachtstag |
Nationwide |
| 26 Dec | Sunday rest day | St. Stephen's Day
Zweiter Weihnachtstag |
Nationwide |
The 10 regional dates above are observed only in part of the country and are left out of every national total on this page.
2027 at a glance
January 1 holiday
February
March 2 holidays
April
May 3 holidays
June
July
August
September
October 1 holiday
November
December 2 holidays
Working days in each month
| Month | Days | Weekend | Holidays | Working | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 | 160 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 | 160 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 | 168 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| May | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 152 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 | 168 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 | 176 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 184 |
| 2027 | 365 | 104 | 5 | 256 | 2,048 |
What the numbers say about Germany in 2027
The count uses Saturday and Sunday as the weekly rest days, the standard pattern in Germany. Only holidays that apply across the whole country are deducted. Someone working in a region with its own extra days will have a little more time off than these figures show.
4 holidays land on a rest day this year: Labour Day (1 May), German Unity Day (3 Oct), Christmas Day (25 Dec), St. Stephen's Day (26 Dec). On the calendar alone that means no extra time off. Some countries move the day off to the next working day; whether that applies here is set by national rules, so check before you plan around it.
December is the longest working month with 23 days, and May the shortest with 19. A gap of 4 days is enough to make a fixed monthly target noticeably harder in some months than in others. Across quarters, Q1 is the leanest at 61 working days (January, February, March).
2026 had 254working days, so 2027gives you 2 more working days.Plans copied over from last year without adjusting for that difference will be slightly off from January onwards.
Among the 204 countries we track for 2027, the median number of national holidays is 12. With 9, Germany sits below the middle of the range, around the 17th percentile (the lowest count this year is 3, the highest 49).
Holidays create 3 stretches of three or more days off in a row. The longest lasts 4 days, from 26 March to 29 March (Good Friday, Easter Monday). There is also one bridge day: a single working day squeezed between a holiday and the weekend, where one day of leave turns into four or more days away. See every long weekend in 2027.
4 holidays change date compared with 2026: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday. Movable dates are the ones most often missed when last year's schedule is reused.
How holidays work in Germany
In Germany, holidays are mostly a matter for the states. Federal law fixes just one date, German Unity Day on 3 October. Every other public holiday is decided by the individual Land, and the result is a wide spread: roughly nine days in the northern city states and thirteen in Bavaria.
The dates that divide the country include Corpus Christi, Assumption, Reformation Day and All Saints' Day. Where each one applies still tracks, more or less, the historic Catholic and Protestant regions. Because this page counts only holidays observed in every Land, the national total is close to the real figure for someone in Hamburg and noticeably too low for someone in Munich.
Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not moved to a weekday. In a year where several dates land on the weekend, Germans simply work more days, and the gap between a favourable year and an unfavourable one can reach three or four working days. Keep that in mind for budgets or contracts measured in working days rather than months.
One local curiosity: Augsburg has a holiday of its own, the Friedensfest on 8 August, which is observed nowhere else in Germany.