Holidays in Germany 2024 (national, local, unofficial)
All-Holidays.Info dedicated this publication to the following topic: Holidays in Germany 2024. In it we will give the exact dates of national, local and unofficial holidays in Germany. Let us give the dates of the memorable days. We will also list the most significant international holidays celebrated by the Germans.
Officially, only “legal holidays” are celebrated in Germany. This is what public holidays, which are public holidays, are called in German. They can be celebrated throughout the country, in individual states or municipalities and regions. Those celebrated throughout the country are called national holidays. Their list is published on the website of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland.
In addition to legal holidays, unofficial holidays and memorable days are celebrated in Germany. They are not enshrined in law, so there is no official holiday on these dates. All unofficial holidays in Germany can be divided into three types:
Religious holidays.
Memorable days.
International holidays.
In this publication we will list all the significant holidays in Germany 2024. We will also list memorable days and international holidays. All dates are obtained from official German or international sources.
Holidays in Germany 2024
Below we have collected all the holidays in Germany 2024. Also listed are unofficial holidays that are celebrated in Germany (we have designated them with a special mark). If a German holiday is not celebrated throughout the country, the states where it is a public holiday will be listed in parentheses.
January
January 1, 2024, Monday – New Year.
Saturday 6 January 2024 – Epiphany (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt).
January 20, 2024, Saturday – German Schlager Day, an unofficial holiday.
January 22, 2024, Monday – German-French day, unofficial holiday.
February
February 8, 2024, Thursday – Women’s Carnival (Dirty Thursday), an unofficial holiday.
February 10, 2024, Saturday – Children’s Hospice Day, an unofficial holiday.
February 12, 2024, Monday – Carnival Monday, an unofficial holiday.
February 13, 2024, Tuesday – Carnival Tuesday (Purple Tuesday), an unofficial holiday.
March 7, 2024, Thursday – Healthy Eating Day, an unofficial holiday.
March 8, 2024, Friday – International Women’s Day (Berlin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
March 10, 2024, Sunday – Ramadan, an unofficial holiday.
March 15, 2024, Friday – Back Health Day, an unofficial holiday.
March 18, 2024, Monday – National day of action for the release of political prisoners, an unofficial holiday.
Friday 22 March 2024 is Crime Victims Day, an unofficial holiday.
March 24, 2024, Sunday – Palm Sunday, White Sunday, unofficial holidays.
March 28, 2024, Thursday – Maundy Thursday, an unofficial holiday.
March 29, 2024, Friday – Good Friday.
March 30, 2024, Saturday – Holy Saturday, unofficial holiday.
March 31, 2024, Sunday – Easter Sunday.
April
April 1, 2024, Monday – Easter Monday.
April 3, 2024, Wednesday – Senior Generation Day, an unofficial holiday.
April 23, 2024, Tuesday – German Beer Day, an unofficial holiday.
April 25, 2024, Thursday – Girls’ Day, an unofficial holiday.
April 30, 2024, Tuesday – Walpurgis Night, an unofficial holiday.
May
May 1, 2024, Wednesday – Labor Day.
May 5, 2024, Sunday – Day of Children with Heart Defects, an unofficial holiday.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 – Liberation Day, an unofficial holiday.
May 9, 2024, Thursday – Ascension of Christ. Father’s Day (unofficial holiday).
May 10, 2024, Friday – Stroke Day, (Free) Book Day, unofficial holidays.
Saturday May 11, 2024 – Free Comic Book Day, an unofficial holiday.
Sunday, May 12, 2024 – Mother’s Day, an unofficial holiday.
May 19, 2024, Sunday – Pentecost Sunday.
Monday 20 May 2024 – Trinity Monday. German Mill Day (unofficial holiday).
May 23, 2024, Thursday – Basic Law Day, German Diversity Day, unofficial holidays.
May 26, 2024, Sunday – Trinity, unofficial holiday.
May 28, 2024, Tuesday – Life Donation Day, an unofficial holiday.
May 30, 2024, Thursday – Corpus Christi (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some municipalities and regions of Saxony and Thuringia).
June
June 6, 2024, Thursday – Day of the Visually Impaired, an unofficial holiday.
June 9, 2024, Sunday – Garden Day, an unofficial holiday.
June 10, 2024, Monday – Children’s Safety Day, an unofficial holiday.
Saturday, June 15, 2024 — Road Safety Day, an unofficial holiday.
June 20, 2024, Thursday – Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Flight and Expulsion, an unofficial holiday.
June 21, 2024, Friday – Sun Protection Day, Sleep Day, unofficial holidays.
June 29, 2024, Saturday – Architecture Day, an unofficial holiday.
July
Sunday July 21, 2024 is National Day of Remembrance for Dead Drug Addicts, an unofficial holiday.
July 28, 2024, Sunday – Sea Rescue Day, an unofficial holiday.
Wednesday 31 July 2024 is Food Diversity Day, an unofficial holiday.
August
August 8, 2024, Thursday – Augsburg High Peace Festival (Augsburg, without surrounding area).
Tuesday 13 August 2024 – Anniversary of the construction of the wall in 1961, an unofficial holiday.
August 15, 2024, Thursday – Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Saarland, most of Bavaria).
August 28, 2024, Wednesday – Day of Russian Germans, an unofficial holiday.
September
September 1, 2024, Sunday – Anti-War Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 5, 2024, Thursday – Headache Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 8, 2024, Sunday – Motherland Day, Day of Remembrance and Instruction, Day of Open Monuments, Day of Remembrance for Victims of Flight, Expulsion and Forced Relocation (Bavaria, Hesse, Saxony), unofficial holidays.
Wednesday September 11, 2024 – Homeless Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 15, 2024, Sunday – Geotope Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 17, 2024, Tuesday – German Language Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 19, 2024, Thursday – Civil Courage Day, an unofficial holiday.
Friday 20 September 2024 – World Children’s Day (Thuringia).
September 24, 2024, Tuesday – Space Day, an unofficial holiday.
Wednesday September 25, 2024 – Dental Health Day, an unofficial holiday.
Friday 27 September 2024 – German Sandwich Day, an unofficial holiday.
September 28, 2024, Saturday – Lung Day, an unofficial holiday.
Monday 30 September 2024 is Dyslexia and Dyscalculia Day, an unofficial holiday.
October
October 3, 2024, Thursday – German Unity Day. Mosque Opening Day, an unofficial holiday.
October 5, 2024, Saturday – Epilepsy Day, an unofficial holiday.
Sunday October 6, 2024 – German-American Day, an unofficial holiday.
October 8, 2024, Tuesday – Climate Protection Day in Industry, an unofficial holiday.
October 11, 2024, Friday – Yom Kippur, an unofficial holiday.
October 14, 2024, Monday – Hospice Day, an unofficial holiday.
October 24, 2024, Thursday – Library Day, an unofficial holiday.
October 31, 2024, Thursday – Reformation Day (Baden-Württemburg, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, Thuringia). Halloween, an unofficial holiday.
November
November 1, 2024, Friday – All Saints’ Day (Baden-Württemburg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland).
November 9, 2024, Saturday – Remembrance Day for the Night of Broken Glass in 1938, Remembrance Day for the fall of the Berlin Wall between East and West in 1989, Proclamation of the German Republic by Philipp Scheidemann (November Revolution) in 1918, unofficial holidays.
November 15, 2024, Friday – Reading Day, an unofficial holiday.
Wednesday 20 November 2024 – Day of Repentance and Prayer (Saarland, part of Bavaria). Liver Day, an unofficial holiday.
November 24, 2024, Sunday – Sunday of the Dead, an unofficial holiday.
December
December 1, 2024, Sunday – First Sunday of Advent, unofficial holiday.
December 6, 2024, Friday – Nicholas Day, an unofficial holiday.
December 8, 2024, Sunday – Education Day, Crime Day, Second Sunday of Advent, unofficial holidays.
December 15, 2024, Sunday – Third Sunday of Advent, unofficial holiday.
December 19, 2024, Thursday – Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Sinti and Roma Genocide, an unofficial holiday.
December 22, 2024, Sunday – Fourth Sunday of Advent, unofficial holiday.
December 24, 2024, Tuesday – Christmas Eve, an unofficial holiday.
Wednesday 25 December 2024 – First Day of Christmas. Hanukkah, an unofficial holiday.
December 26, 2024, Thursday – Second Day of Christmas.
December 31, 2024, Tuesday – Sylvester, unofficial holiday.
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