Public holidays in Germany 2027
9 national public holidays in Germany in 2027. The weekend is Saturday and Sunday.
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| 1 January | Friday | New Year's Day |
| 26 March | Friday | Good Friday |
| 29 March | Monday | Easter Monday |
| 1 May | Saturday | Labour Day |
| 6 May | Thursday | Ascension Day |
| 17 May | Monday | Whit Monday |
| 3 October | Sunday | National Holiday |
| 25 December | Saturday | Christmas Day |
| 26 December | Sunday | Boxing Day |
Other observances
Bank holidays, optional and observance days. Most are not days off for everyone.
- 4 February · Women's Carnival Day (observance)
- 8 February · Shrove Monday (observance)
- 9 February · Shrove Tuesday (observance)
- 10 February · Ash Wednesday (observance)
- 14 February · Valentine's Day (observance)
- 25 March · Maundy Thursday (observance)
- 28 March · Easter Sunday (observance)
- 9 May · Mother's Day (observance)
- 16 May · Pentecost (observance)
- 1 November · All Saints' Day (observance)
- 2 November · All Souls' Day (observance)
- 11 November · Saint Martin (observance)
- 14 November · Memorial Day (observance)
- 17 November · Day of Prayer and Repentance (observance)
- 21 November · Totensonntag (observance)
- 28 November · 1. Advent (observance)
- 5 December · 2. Advent (observance)
- 12 December · 3. Advent (observance)
- 19 December · 4. Advent (observance)
- 24 December · Christmas Eve (bank)
- 31 December · New Year's Eve (bank)
Regional holidays
Some holidays apply only in parts of Germany. The API returns them with the region parameter, e.g. region=BB for Brandenburg. Regions: Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hansestadt Bremen, Hessen, Hansestadt Hamburg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen.
Source: date-holidays rules v3.26.5 (ISC (data: CC BY-SA 3.0)). About our data
Get this data from the API
Get these dates as JSON, check whether a date is a working day in Germany, or add working days that skip weekends and holidays.
curl "https://apistack.online/api/data/public-holidays/v1?country=DE&year=2027" \
-H "x-api-key: $APISTACK_API_KEY"