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🇩🇪Germany

Federal law grants 24 statutory working days where the legal count includes Monday to Saturday. This equals four weeks, or about 20 days for a five-day schedule.

Statutory paid annual leave24 statutory working days where Saturdays count (≈20 days on a 5-day week)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedGerman Federal Ministry of Justice – BUrlG §3
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • Easter, Ascension Day and Whit Monday are recurring opportunities.
  • Regional public holidays can materially change the best options, so select your Land in the planner.
  • Christmas can be efficient when 25–26 December fall close to weekends.

Legal basis and comparison method

Federal law grants 24 statutory working days where the legal count includes Monday to Saturday. This equals four weeks, or about 20 days for a five-day schedule.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: German Federal Ministry of Justice – BUrlG §3. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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