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DE — Germany National Holidays

  • Standard: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 DE
  • Category: National
  • Sibling calendars: XETR (Deutsche Börse Xetra) — DE and XETR share all 9 holidays verbatim via the DeHolidays factory; XETR additionally has Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve as market-only closures.
  • Service class: HolidayCalendarServiceDE (org.holiday.calendar.impl, module org.holiday.calendar.western)

Weekend & Date Roll

  • Weekend days: Saturday+Sunday
  • Roll strategy: DateRolls.previousFridayOrFollowingMonday()
  • Rollability exceptions: Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, and Whit Monday are rollable(false) (weekday-anchored). All FIXED holidays (New Year's Day, Labour Day, German Unity Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day) are rollable(true).

Holidays

Name Type First Year Rollable Notes
New Year's Day FIXED — Yes
Good Friday FLOATING — No
Easter Monday FLOATING — No
Labour Day FIXED — Yes May 1
Ascension Day FLOATING — No 39 days after Easter Sunday
Whit Monday FLOATING — No
German Unity Day FIXED — Yes October 3
Christmas Day FIXED — Yes
Boxing Day FIXED — Yes

These are exactly Germany's 9 official nationwide (bundesweite) public holidays — no regional/state (Länder) holidays are included.

Early Closes

Not applicable — the DE national calendar never includes early-close (half-day) sessions. Xetra's Christmas Eve/New Year's Eve closures are market-only, modeled separately under XETR.

Notes of Interest

Germany observes many additional public holidays at the individual Land (state) level (e.g. Epiphany, Corpus Christi, Reformation Day, All Saints' Day — each recognized in only some states), none of which are included here. DE models only the 9 holidays observed nationwide across all 16 states, consistent with this project's general pattern of modeling a single canonical national list rather than per-region variants (see also CH.md's cantonal-variation note for a similar simplification in Switzerland).

Sources

  • No single official German federal government page enumerating exactly these 9 nationwide holidays (as distinct from state-level ones) was captured with a stable citation URL in this pass; the 9-holiday nationwide list is well-established public record, consistent across German public-holiday reference sources