Overview
- All Saints' Day falls on a Saturday this year and is observed as a legally defined quiet day in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, bringing event restrictions and widespread shop closures.
- Rules differ by state, with Rheinland-Pfalz banning dance events from 4:00 and allowing sports from 11:00, while Bavaria prohibits cheerful public entertainment broadly between 2:00 and 24:00.
- Most retail stays closed, though bakeries and florists may open for limited hours, and gastronomy, museums, zoos, station shops and pharmacy emergency services operate under special provisions.
- DGB Bayern urges a law granting a compensatory weekday off when a public holiday lands on a weekend, citing practices in the UK, USA, Poland and many other countries and noting that roughly six million employees in Bavaria lose a weekday benefit this year.
- The Bavarian employers' association (vbw) rejects the proposal as harmful to competitiveness, and no legislative change has been enacted, with calendars showing more holidays set to fall on weekends next year.