| 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
|
