Public holidays in Germany in 2006 TARGET holidays (applies to all TARGET countries) 1 January New Year's Day 14 April Good Friday 17 April Easter Monday 1 May Labour Day 25 December Christmas Day 26 December Boxing Day Public holidays throughout the Federal Republic of Germany 1 January New Year's Day 14 April Good Friday 17 April Easter Monday 1 May Labour Day 25 May Ascension Day 5 June Whit Monday 3 October Day of German Unity 25 December Christmas Day 26 December Boxing Day Public holidays in individual German federal states 6 January Epiphany (Baden-Wrttemberg, Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt) 15 June Corpus Christi (Baden-Wrttemberg, Bavaria, hesse, North Rhine- Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, some local authorities in Thuringia and Saxony) 15 August Assumption Day (Saarland and some local authorities in Bavaria) 31 October Reformation Day (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and some local authorities in Thuringia) 1 November All Saints' Day (Bavaria, Baden-Wrttemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland) 16 November Day of Prayer and Repentance (Saxony) Non-business days of the Deutsche Bundesbank 24 December Christmas Eve 31 December New Year's Eve At weekends, both TARGET and the Bundesbank's branches are closed. Source: Bank of Germany http://www.bundesbank.de/