Public holidays in Germany, by federal state

Nine: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, German Unity Day and the two Christmas holidays. Only German Unity Day is in a federal law; all the others are in the state holiday laws, which agree on them.

Bavaria with thirteen, although Assumption Day applies there only in predominantly Catholic municipalities. Across a whole state, Saarland has the most with twelve. Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein have the fewest with ten.

The one where the work is done. What counts is the holiday law of the state in which the work is performed, not that of the company's registered office and not that of the place of residence. When working from home it is the state in which the person actually works.

No. Unlike in the United Kingdom, German law knows no substitute day. A public holiday on a Saturday or Sunday is simply lost, unless a collective agreement or a works agreement provides otherwise.

No, in no federal state. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are ordinary working days; many businesses give them off, which is a voluntary benefit or is in the collective agreement. In some states a limited protection under holiday law applies from 2 pm.

From the same calculation MetronHR uses in the product: fixed dates from the public holiday laws, movable ones from Easter Sunday by the Gregorian algorithm, plus the years in which the newer holidays were introduced. Counted is what applies statewide. What applies only locally, such as Assumption Day in Bavaria, Corpus Christi in parts of Saxony and Thuringia or the Augsburg Peace Festival, is listed on the state's page next to the table.