Holidays & Festivals

Germany:

Holidays:
January 1 New Year's Day
Early April Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday
May 1 May Day
Early May Ascension Day
Late May Pentecost Sunday, Pentecost Monday
Early June Corpus Christi
August 15 Assumption Day
October 3 Day of German Unity
October 31 Reformation Day
November 1 All Saints Day
Mid November Repentance Day
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 Second Day of Christmas

Festivals:
February Carnival
July/August Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
September Moselle Wine Festival; Kulmbach Beer Festival; Wolznach Hop Festival; Durkheim Sausage Market
Sept./Oct. Berlin Festival; Oktoberfest in Munich
October Moselle Wine Festivals
end of October Frankenstein Festival in Darmstadt

Switzerland:
Holidays:
January 1 New Year's Day
January 2 Berchtold's Day
Early April Good Friday/Easter/Easter Monday
May 1 Labor Day
June 1 Ascension Day
Mid June Whit Sunday/Whit Monday
August 1 Confederation Day
November 1 All Saint's Day
December 8 Immaculate Conception
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 St. Stephen's Day

Festivals:
February Carnival
July Montreux Jazz Festival
fourth Monday in November Onion Market in Bern

Austria:

Holidays:
January 1 New Year's Day
January 6 Epiphany
May 1 Labor Day
April Easter
August 15 Assumption of the Virgin Mary
October 26 National Day
November 1 All Saints Day
December 8 Immaculate Conception
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 Boxing Day

Festivals:
Late January Mozart Festival
Mid Feb-late March Carnival; Dance Festival in Vienna
Late May-late June Vienna Festival
Mid July-late August Bregenz Festival
Late July-August Salzburg Festival
December 5 St. Nicholas Day