Public holidays in Germany

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Except for the national holiday (German Unity Day), public holidays in Germany (gesetzliche Feiertage) are determined by the federal states.

Holiday	Local Name	Date	BW	BY	BE	BB	HB	HH	HE	MV	NI	NW	RP	SL	SN	ST	SH	TH
New Year's Day	Neujahrstag	January 1	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Epiphany	Heilige Drei Könige	January 6	•	•												•
Good Friday	Karfreitag	Easter Sunday - 2d	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Easter Monday	Ostermontag	Easter Sunday + 1d	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Labour Day	Tag der Arbeit	May 1	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Ascension Day	Christi Himmelfahrt	Easter Sunday + 39d	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Whitmonday	Pfingstmontag	Easter Sunday + 50d	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Corpus Christi	Fronleichnam	Easter Sunday + 60d	•	•					•			•	•	•	1)			2)
Peace Festival	Friedensfest	August 8		3)
Assumption Day	Mariä Himmelfahrt	August 15		5) 7)										•
German Unity Day	Tag der Deutschen Einheit	October 3 6)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Reformation Day	Reformationstag	October 31				•				•					•	•		•
All Saints	Allerheiligen	November 1	•	•								•	•	•
Repentance Day 4)	Buß- und Bettag	Wednesday before November 23		7)											•
Christmas Day	1. Weihnachtstag	December 25	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
St Stephen's Day	2. Weihnachtstag	December 26	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Total			12	12	9	10	9	9	10	10	9	11	11	12	11	11	9	10

[edit] Remarks

•	Public holiday within this state.
1)	Only in a few Sorbian communities.
2)	Only in the Catholic district of Eichsfeld.
3)	Only in the city of Augsburg.
4)	Public holiday in all states until 1994. The holiday has been dropped in exchange for the introduction of nursing care insurance. Saxony is the only state where employers do not have to pay the nursing care insurance, as it has all been paid by the employees, so they could keep the holiday.
5)	Only in the about 1700 communities with mostly Catholic inhabitants and in the cities of Augsburg and Munich.
6)	National Holiday since 1991. Used to be on June 17 up to 1990, commemorating the Workers Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
7)	On these days, schools are closed all over the state.

Either Carnival Monday ("Rose Monday") or Mardi Gras is a de facto holiday in some towns and cities in Catholic western and southern Germany which have a strong Carnival tradition.