Holidays in Hesse 2025: How to optimally plan your days off!

In 2025, the statutory holidays in Hesse fall on working days, which offers workers the opportunity to use extended weekends through skillful vacation planning. A total of 21 statutory holidays are set in Germany, but only ten holidays are celebrated in Hesse. This gives the employees an opportunity to enjoy extensive leisure with a few vacation days.

At the beginning of 2025, the pupils in Hesse can look forward to a week of school holidays for the Hesse Week after New Year. The first day of school after the holidays is on Monday, January 13, 2025. The school holidays in Hesse have already been determined by 2030, which facilitates long -term planning.

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On Monday, January 6, 2025, many people in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are free due to the Epiphany. The next statutory holiday in Hesse is Good Friday, which will be celebrated on April 18, 2025. This is followed by Easter Monday on April 21, while the Easter holidays begin on April 7th.

Another worker -friendly holiday is the day of work, which falls on a Thursday on May 1, 2025, which enables an extended weekend. Employees in Hesse can free a total of three times four days at a time with just one vacation day. Ascension Day will be celebrated on May 29, 2025 (Thursday), followed by Corpus Christi on June 19, 2025 (Thursday), and Whit Monday falls on June 9, 2025.

The only legal holiday until Christmas 2025 in Hesse is the day of German unity that falls on a Friday, October 3. The school holidays for 2025 have already been determined and include:

• Christmas holidays 2024/25: December 23, 2024 to January 10, 2025
• Easter holidays 2025: April 7 to April 21, 2025
• Summer vacation 2025: July 7th to August 15, 2025
• autumn holidays 2025: 6. October 18, 2025
• Christmas holidays 2025/26: December 22, 2025 to January 10, 2026

Christmas 2025 will be celebrated on December 25th (Thursday) with the first holiday and on December 26th (Friday) with the second holiday. Furthermore, the New Year's Day 2026 also falls on a Thursday.

As reported by hessenschau.de, the holidays in 2025 are employee -friendly, as both Christmas holidays are right before a weekend. May 1st also falls on a Thursday, which invites you to bridge days. It is also mentioned that a longer vacation time around Christmas is possible with just a few vacation days, specifically from December 20, 2025 to January 4, 2026, which results in 16 working days on vacation days required.

The legally defined holidays in Hesse are New Year, Good Friday, Easter Monday, day of work, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, the day of German unity and the first and second Christmas holiday. Hessen is one of the federal states with the fewest legal holidays in Germany, since it is only ten holidays compared to Bavaria, which has twelve holidays. It is important to mention that until 1994 the day of penance and bed in Hessen was an additional holiday, which was deleted.