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For planning purposes, here is a list of this year’s German holidays:
Jan. 1 – New Year’s
Jan. 6 – Three Kings’ Day (official holiday in Bavaria, Sachsen and Baden-Württemberg only)
Feb. 15 – Rose Monday (no legal holiday)
Feb. 16 – Shrove Tuesday (Fasching – not a legal holiday)
Feb. 17 – Ash Wednesday (not a legal holiday)
April 2 – Good Friday
April 4 and 5 – Easter
May 1 – Labor Day
May 13 –Ascension Day
May 23 and 24 – Pentecost
June 3 – Corpus Christi Day (official holiday in the states of Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hessen, Nordrhein-Westfalen and Sachsen)
Aug. 15 – Assumption of the Blessed Virgin (only in Bavaria and Saarland)
Oct. 3 – Unification Day
Nov. 1 – All Saints Day
Dec. 25 and 26 – Christmas
