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Germany

Capital: Berlin
Time Zone: GMT +1
Currency: Euro
International Dialling Code in: +49
International Dialling Code out: 00
Country ID: D

Public Holidays and Other Events

Holiday Date 2009 2010
New Year's Day 1 January (following Monday if on Saturday or Sunday) Jan  1 Jan  1
Epiphany (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Saxony) 6 January Jan  6 Jan  6
Carnival The six days leading up to Ash Wednesday - climax is on Shrove Monday (date shown) Feb 23 Feb 15
Good Friday Friday before Easter Sunday Apr 10 Apr  2
Easter Sunday See Elusive Easter Apr 12 Apr  4
Easter Monday Monday after Easter Sunday Apr 13 Apr  5
May Day 1 May May  1 May  1
Ascension 39 days after Easter Sunday - always on a Thursday May 21 May 13
Whit Sunday (Pentecost) 7 weeks after Easter Sunday May 31 May 23
Whit Monday 7 weeks after Easter Monday Jun  1 May 24
Corpus Christi (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, North Rhine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony, Westphalia) The second Thursday following Whit Monday Jun 11 Jun  3
Peace Festival (Bavaria) 8 August Aug  8 Aug  8
Assumption (Saarland and Catholic Bavaria) 15 August Aug 15 Aug 15
Day of German Unity 3 October Oct  3 Oct  3
Reformation Day (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia) 31 October Oct 31 Oct 31
All Saints (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt , Catholic Thuringia, Westphalia) 1 November Nov  1  
Repentance Day (Bavaria, Saarland) Third Wednesday in November Nov 18 Nov 17
Christmas Day 25 December Dec 25 Dec 25
Boxing Day 26 December Dec 26 Dec 26

Holidays shown in blue are public holidays and are observed by most or all of the country's regions.

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