Sachsen Business Day Calculator

Last reviewed: May 19, 2026 · Holiday data: June 24, 2026

Calculate business days in Sachsen with its own statewide Feiertage. Sachsen shares the Monday to Friday working week and the Saturday and Sunday weekend with the rest of Germany, but its Feiertage calendar is different, so due dates and deadlines can land differently from the count built on the nine nationwide Feiertage.

How Sachsen differs from the nationwide German holidays

Saxony adds two statewide Feiertage: Reformationstag on 31 October and Buß- und Bettag (the Day of Repentance and Prayer) on the Wednesday before 23 November, which is 18 November in 2026 and 17 November in 2027. Saxony is the only German state where Buß- und Bettag is still a work-free public holiday, so it reliably shortens the Saxon count by one day each year. Reformationstag falls on a weekend in both shipped years. Fronleichnam is a holiday only in a few designated Sorbian municipalities, not statewide, so it is left out of this count. The working week is Monday to Friday with a Saturday and Sunday weekend.

Worked example

Adding 1 business days to Tuesday, November 17, 2026 using Sachsen's Feiertage lands on Thursday, November 19, 2026. With the nine nationwide German Feiertage, the same calculation lands on Wednesday, November 18, 2026: the gap comes from Sachsen's own calendar.

Sachsen Feiertage in 2026

Date	Day	Feiertag	Notes
January 1	Thursday	Neujahrstag	Neujahrstag on Thursday January 1 is a strong bridge-day candidate; many employers grant the Friday as discretionary leave to produce a four-day weekend.
April 3	Friday	Karfreitag	Karfreitag on Friday April 3 produces a three-day weekend with the immediately following Saturday and Sunday.
April 6	Monday	Ostermontag	Ostermontag on Monday April 6 produces a three-day weekend with the immediately preceding Saturday and Sunday.
May 1	Friday	Tag der Arbeit	Tag der Arbeit on Friday May 1 produces a three-day weekend with the immediately following Saturday and Sunday.
May 14	Thursday	Christi Himmelfahrt	Christi Himmelfahrt on Thursday May 14 is a strong bridge-day candidate; many employers grant the Friday as discretionary leave to produce a four-day weekend.
May 25	Monday	Pfingstmontag	Pfingstmontag on Monday May 25 produces a three-day weekend with the immediately preceding Saturday and Sunday.
October 3	Saturday (weekend)	Tag der Deutschen Einheit	Tag der Deutschen Einheit lands on a Saturday (October 3) and is absorbed into the weekend without an in-lieu working day.
October 31	Saturday (weekend)	Reformationstag	Reformationstag lands on a Saturday (October 31) and is absorbed into the weekend without an in-lieu working day.
November 18	Wednesday	Buß- und Bettag	Buß- und Bettag on Wednesday November 18 breaks the working week without an obvious adjacent-weekend bridge opportunity.
December 25	Friday	Erster Weihnachtstag	Erster Weihnachtstag on Friday December 25 produces a three-day weekend with the immediately following Saturday and Sunday.
December 26	Saturday (weekend)	Zweiter Weihnachtstag	Zweiter Weihnachtstag lands on a Saturday (December 26) and is absorbed into the weekend without an in-lieu working day.

How to count Sachsen business days

For an interactive calculation, use the Germany calculator and add Sachsen's own Feiertage under Advanced options. The per-year Feiertage pages below list every Sachsen date ready to paste in.

Sachsen Feiertage data is verified against the Sächsisches Sonn- und Feiertagsgesetz (revosax.sachsen.de).

Sachsen FAQ

Does the Sachsen calculator use different Feiertage from the nationwide German set?

Is the Sachsen working week Monday to Friday?

Yes. Sachsen uses the Monday to Friday working week with a Saturday and Sunday weekend, the same as the rest of Germany. Only the Bundesland's set of Feiertage changes.