What you see here is the list of yearly 2020 holidays for Germany. So if you are looking for information regarding holidays observed in Germany in the year 2020, then you have come to the right place. This list has all the holidays written month-wise in proper order so you can easily break down the holidays according to the month and day when it falls.
This list will act as Germany 2020 holiday calendar and provide you with all the Bank holidays, Public Holidays of Germany Country, Germany School Holidays and Official holidays. So it would be easy for you to identify the holidays for the month and plan your schedule accordingly. You can always use this list as a reference to have knowledge about all the religious festivities of Germany in 2020 and local observances falling within the month of the year 2020 and make preparations for them in advance.
Date | Day | Holiday | Type | Year |
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6th January | Monday | Epiphany | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
22nd January | Wednesday | Franco-German Day | Observance | 2020 |
27th January | Monday | Remembrance Day for the Victims of National Socialism | Observance | 2020 |
28th January | Tuesday | European Privacy Day | Observance | 2020 |
1st January | Wednesday | New Year Day | National holiday | 2020 |
26th February | Wednesday | Carnival / Ash Wednesday | Silent Day | 2020 |
25th February | Tuesday | Carnival / Shrove Tuesday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
24th February | Monday | Shrove Monday | Observance | 2020 |
14th February | Friday | Valentine Day | Observance | 2020 |
10th February | Monday | Children Hospice Day | Observance | 2020 |
8th March | Sunday | International Women Day | Observance | 2020 |
8th March | Sunday | International Women Day | Common local holiday | 2020 |
17th March | Tuesday | St. Patrick Day | Observance | 2020 |
20th March | Friday | March Equinox | Season | 2020 |
29th March | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time starts | Clock change/Daylight Saving Time | 2020 |
12th April | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
30th April | Thursday | Walpurgis Night | Observance | 2020 |
23rd April | Thursday | German Beer Day | Observance | 2020 |
13th April | Monday | Easter Monday | National holiday, Christian | 2020 |
12th April | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Silent Day | 2020 |
10th April | Friday | Good Friday | Silent Day, public holiday | 2020 |
9th April | Thursday | Maundy Thursday | Silent Day | 2020 |
5th April | Sunday | Palm Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
21st May | Thursday | Father Day | Observance | 2020 |
31st May | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
31st May | Sunday | Whit Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
23rd May | Saturday | Constitution Day | Observance | 2020 |
21st May | Thursday | Ascension Day | National holiday, Christian | 2020 |
10th May | Sunday | Mother Day | Observance | 2020 |
8th May | Friday | Anniversary of the End of World War II | Observance | 2020 |
8th May | Friday | Anniversary of the End of World War II | Common local holiday | 2020 |
5th May | Tuesday | Europe Day | Observance | 2020 |
1st May | Friday | May Day | National holiday | 2020 |
11th June | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Local holiday, Christian | 2020 |
27th June | Saturday | Architecture Day | Observance | 2020 |
21st June | Sunday | Car-free Sunday | Observance | 2020 |
20th June | Saturday | June Solstice | Season | 2020 |
19th June | Friday | Day of Music (first day) | Observance | 2020 |
6th June | Saturday | Visually Impaired People Day | Observance | 2020 |
3rd June | Wednesday | European Bicycle Day | Observance | 2020 |
1st June | Monday | Whit Monday | National holiday, Christian | 2020 |
11th June | Thursday | Corpus Christi | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
8th August | Saturday | Peace Festival in Augsburg | Local holiday | 2020 |
15th August | Saturday | Assumption of Mary | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
1st September | Tuesday | World Peace Day | Observance | 2020 |
12th September | Saturday | German Language Day | Observance | 2020 |
13th September | Sunday | European Heritage Days (Day of the Open Monument) | Observance | 2020 |
13th September | Sunday | Day of the Homeland | Observance | 2020 |
22nd September | Tuesday | September Equinox | Season | 2020 |
31st October | Saturday | Halloween | Observance | 2020 |
31st October | Saturday | Reformation Day | Common local holiday | 2020 |
30th October | Friday | World Thrift Day | Observance | 2020 |
24th October | Saturday | Day of the Libraries | Observance | 2020 |
4th October | Sunday | Harvest Festival | Observance | 2020 |
3rd October | Saturday | Day of German Unity | National holiday | 2020 |
25th October | Sunday | Daylight Saving Time ends | Clock change/Daylight Saving Time | 2020 |
29th November | Sunday | First Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
22nd November | Sunday | Sunday of the Dead | Silent Day | 2020 |
18th November | Wednesday | Repentance Day | Christian, Common local holiday | 2020 |
15th November | Sunday | National Day of Mourning | Silent Day | 2020 |
11th November | Wednesday | St. Martin Day | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
9th November | Monday | Fall of the Berlin Wall | Observance | 2020 |
9th November | Monday | Night of Broken Glass Remembrance Day | Observance | 2020 |
6th December | Sunday | Second Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
6th December | Sunday | Saint Nicholas Day | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
13th December | Sunday | Third Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
19th December | Saturday | Remembrance Day for Roma and Sinti killed by Genocide | Observance | 2020 |
20th December | Sunday | Fourth Advent Sunday | Observance, Christian | 2020 |
21st December | Monday | December Solstice | Season | 2020 |
24th December | Thursday | Christmas Eve | Silent Day | 2020 |
25th December | Friday | Christmas Day | National holiday, Christian | 2020 |
26th December | Saturday | Boxing Day | National holiday, Christian | 2020 |
31st December | Thursday | New Year Eve | Bank holiday | 2020 |