Holidays and gift giving occasions in Germany
Christmas markets may be the main reason you're thinking about Germany during the holidays, but it's important to remember that packages aren't collected or developed on a public holiday. So if you're sending something around the days we've collected below, keep in mind that it may take a day or two longer to arrive.
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | Tuesday | New Year's Day |
| Jan 6 | Sunday | Epiphany |
| Jan 22 | Tuesday | Franco-German Day |
| Jan 27 | Sunday | Remembrance Day for the Victims of National Socialism |
| Jan 28 | Monday | European Privacy Day |
| Feb 10 | Sunday | Children's Hospice Day |
| Feb 14 | Thursday | Valentine's Day |
| Mar 4 | Monday | Shrove Monday |
| Mar 5 | Tuesday | Carnival/Shrove Tuesday |
| Mar 6 | Wednesday | Carnival/Ash Wednesday |
| Mar 8 | Friday | International Women's Day |
| Mar 21 | Thursday | March Equinox |
| Mar 28 | Thursday | Girls' Day - Career Information Day |
| Mar 31 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time starts |
| Apr 14 | Sunday | Palm Sunday |
| Apr 18 | Thursday | Maundy Thursday |
| Apr 19 | Friday | Good Friday |
| Apr 21 | Sunday | Easter Day |
| Apr 21 | Sunday | Easter Day |
| Apr 22 | Monday | Easter Monday |
| Apr 23 | Tuesday | German Beer Day |
| Apr 30 | Tuesday | Walpurgis Night |
| May 1 | Wednesday | May Day |
| May 5 | Sunday | Europe Day |
| May 12 | Sunday | Mother's Day |
| May 23 | Thursday | Constitution Day |
| May 30 | Thursday | Father's Day |
| May 30 | Thursday | Ascension Day |
| Jun 1 | Saturday | International Childrens' Day |
| Jun 3 | Monday | European Bicycle Day |
| Jun 6 | Thursday | Visually Impaired People Day |
| Jun 9 | Sunday | Whit Sunday |
| Jun 9 | Sunday | Whit Sunday |
| Jun 10 | Monday | Whit Monday |
| Jun 14 | Friday | Day of Music (first day) |
| Jun 16 | Sunday | Car-free Sunday |
| Jun 20 | Thursday | Corpus Christi |
| Jun 20 | Thursday | Corpus Christi |
| Jun 21 | Friday | June Solstice |
| Jun 29 | Saturday | Architecture Day |
| Aug 8 | Thursday | Peace Festival in Augsburg |
| Aug 15 | Thursday | Assumption of Mary |
| Sep 1 | Sunday | World Peace Day |
| Sep 8 | Sunday | European Heritage Days (Day of the Open Monument) |
| Sep 8 | Sunday | Day of the Homeland |
| Sep 14 | Saturday | German Language Day |
| Sep 20 | Friday | German World Childrens' Day |
| Sep 23 | Monday | September Equinox |
| Oct 3 | Thursday | Day of German Unity |
| Oct 6 | Sunday | Harvest Festival |
| Oct 24 | Thursday | Day of the Libraries |
| Oct 27 | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time ends |
| Oct 30 | Wednesday | World Thrift Day |
| Oct 31 | Thursday | Reformation Day |
| Oct 31 | Thursday | Halloween |
| Nov 1 | Friday | All Saints' Day |
| Nov 9 | Saturday | Night of Broken Glass Remembrance Day |
| Nov 9 | Saturday | Fall of the Berlin Wall |
| Nov 11 | Monday | St. Martin's Day |
| Nov 17 | Sunday | National Day of Mourning |
| Nov 20 | Wednesday | Repentance Day |
| Nov 24 | Sunday | Sunday of the Dead |
| Dec 1 | Sunday | First Advent Sunday |
| Dec 6 | Friday | Saint Nicholas Day |
| Dec 8 | Sunday | Second Advent Sunday |
| Dec 15 | Sunday | Third Advent Sunday |
| Dec 19 | Thursday | Remembrance Day for Roma and Sinti killed by Genocide |
| Dec 22 | Sunday | Fourth Advent Sunday |
| Dec 22 | Sunday | December Solstice |
| Dec 24 | Tuesday | Christmas Eve |
| Dec 25 | Wednesday | Christmas Day |
| Dec 26 | Thursday | Boxing Day |
| Dec 31 | Tuesday | New Year's Eve |