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🇩🇪 Germany Long Weekends 2025

7 long weekends in Germany in 2025. Plan your trips around these dates.

Planning the Christmas break? See Christmas and New Year public holidays across Europe, or Germany public holidays 2027 to book next year's leave early.

Epiphany
3 days
4 January 2025 — 6 January 2025
Good Friday + Easter Sunday + Easter Monday
4 days
18 April 2025 — 21 April 2025
Pentecost + Whit Monday
3 days
7 June 2025 — 9 June 2025
Assumption Day
3 days
15 August 2025 — 17 August 2025
German Unity Day
3 days
3 October 2025 — 5 October 2025
Reformation Day + All Saints' Day
3 days
31 October 2025 — 2 November 2025
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day
4 days
25 December 2025 — 28 December 2025
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Long Weekends Summary — Germany 2025

Longest
Good Friday + Easter Sunday + Easter Monday — 4 days, no leave used
By length
2 × 4-day, 5 × 3-day

How long weekends are calculated

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend. It runs longer when holidays stack — Good Friday plus Easter Monday gives four days — and only statutory days off count, never days that are merely customary. All of these need no annual leave.
Source: Bundesministerium des Innern — Nationale Feiertage ↗ · Dates verified annually. · Report an error
Only 3 October is set federally. Every other German holiday is state law, which is why the totals differ by Land.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many long weekends does Germany have in 2025?+
Germany has 7 long weekends in 2025: 2 four-day weekends, and 5 three-day weekends.
What's the longest weekend in Germany in 2025?+
The longest is around Good Friday + Easter Sunday + Easter Monday, running from 18 April 2025 to 21 April 2025 — 4 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.
How are long weekends calculated?+
A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.
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