International Holidays
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Germany
Capital: Berlin
Time Zone: GMT +1
Currency: Euro
International Dialling Code in: +49
International Dialling Code out: 00
Public Holidays
| New Year's Day | 1 January
| | Epiphany (BA, BW, SA) | 6 January
| | Carnival^ | The six days leading up to Ash Wednesday which is 46 days before Easter Sunday with the climax on Shrove Monday
| | Good Friday | See Elusive Easter
| | Easter Monday | See Elusive Easter
| | May Day | 1 May
| | Ascension | 39 days after Easter Sunday - always on a Thursday
| | Whit Monday | 7 weeks after Easter Monday
| | Corpus Christi (BA, BW, HE, NR, RP, SA, WP) | The second Thursday following Whit Monday
| | Assumption (SL and Catholic BA) | 15 August
| | National Day | 3 October
| | Day of Reformation (BB, MP, SA, SX, TH) | 31 October
| | All Saints Day (BA, BW, NR, RP, SA, Catholic TH, WP) | 1 November
| | Repentance Day (SX) | 32 days before the fourth Sunday of Advent. First Sunday of Avent is the nearest to the Feast of St Andrew (30 Novemmber)
| | Christmas Day | 25 December
| | Boxing Day | 26 December
| | New Year's Eve | 31 December
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| ^ | Not all businesses close
| | BA | Bavaria
| | BB | Brandenburg
| | BW | Baden-Württemberg
| | HE | Hesse
| | MP | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
| | NR | North Rhine
| | RP | Rhineland-Palatinate
| | SL | Saarland
| | SX | Saxony
| | SA | Saxony-Anhalt
| | TH | Thuringia
| | WP | Westphalia
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