Bridge days 2024
This is how you cleverly extend your vacation
Nothing beats anticipation!
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2024 will be sunny – at least when it comes to vacation days. Because the new year has even more bridging days in its luggage than in 2023. May in particular stands out as a wonderful month when it comes to holiday planning.
2024 starts pretty well and continues even better: Throughout the year, not a single holiday falls on a weekend (apart from Easter and Pentecost Sunday, which always fall on a Sunday)! On the first Monday of the new year we were able to lie comfortably in bed and cure the hangover. The working week didn’t start until Tuesday – which means If you planned well, you could do it in the very first week of the new year with 4 vacation days Get 9 days off in a row.
This year it is particularly worthwhile to familiarize yourself with the bridging days of the coming year, because the possibilities are diverse. You can easily use the following list to find out which days you should take vacation in order to get as much vacation as possible using the bridging days.
This is how the holidays are in 2024
- New Year on January 1st: Monday
- International Women’s Day on March 8th (BE*, MV only): Friday
- Easter from March 29th to April 1st: as usual Friday and Monday
- Labor Day on May 1st: Wednesday
- Ascension Day on May 9th: Thursdayas always
- Whit Monday on May 20th: Mondayas always
- Corpus Christi on May 30th (only BW, BY, HE, NW, RP, SL): Thursday
- Augsburg Peace Festival on August 8th (Augsburg only): Thursday
- Assumption of Mary on August 15th (BY, SL only): Thursday
- World Children’s Day on September 20th (TH only): Friday
- German Unity Day on October 3rd: Thursday
- Reformation Day on October 31st (only BB, HB, HH, MV, NI, SN, ST, SH, TH): Thursday
- All Saints Day on November 1st (only BW, BY, NW, RP, SL): Friday
- Day of Penance and Prayer on November 20th (SN only): Wednesday
- Christmas Day on December 25th: Wednesday
- Boxing Day on December 26th: Thursday
Bridge days 2024: Get the most vacation time
The May offers the most opportunities to extend your annual vacation using bridge days: with May 1st on a Wednesday and Ascension Day (as always) on a Thursday.
The October offers a bridge day after German Unity Day, which falls on a Thursday in 2024. And in December You can get 5 days off during Christmas week with just one day of vacation on Friday.
* BW = Baden-Württemberg; BY = Bavaria; BE = Berlin; BB = Brandenburg; HB = Bremen; HH = Hamburg; HE = Hesse; MV = Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; NI = Lower Saxony; NW = North Rhine-Westphalia; RP = Rhineland-Palatinate; SL = Saarland; SN = Saxony; ST = Saxony-Anhalt; SH = Schleswig-Holstein; TH = Thuringia