holiday-de

German Holidays

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import holidayDe from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/holiday-de';
</script>

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holiday-de

Determine whether a given date is a German holiday

Usage

var holiday = require('holiday-de');

// set the state (Bundesland)
holiday.setState('nw');

// check your dates -> returns true
holiday.isHoliday(new Date(2015, 0, 1));

Footnote: holiday-de plays nice with moment.

List of supported states (Bundesländer)

  • bw: Baden-Württemberg
  • by: Bayern
  • be: Berlin
  • bb: Brandenburg
  • hb: Bremen
  • hh: Hamburg
  • he: Hessen
  • mv: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  • ni: Niedersachsen
  • nw: Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • rp: Rheinland-Pfalz
  • sl: Saarland
  • sn: Sachsen
  • st: Sachsen-Anhalt
  • sh: Schleswig-Holstein
  • th: Thüringen

List of supported holidays

  • Neujahrstag
  • Heilige Drei Könige
  • Tag der Arbeit
  • Augsburger Friedensfest
  • Mariä Himmelfahrt
  • Tag der Deutschen Einheit
  • Reformationstag
  • Allerheiligen
  • Heiligabend
  • 1. Weihnachtstag
  • 2. Weihnachtstag
  • Silvester
  • Rosenmontag
  • Gründonnerstag
  • Karfreitag
  • Ostersonntag
  • Ostermontag
  • Christi Himmelfahrt
  • Pfingstsonntag
  • Pfingstmontag
  • Fronleichnam
  • Buß- und Bettag

Note that in 2017 Reformationstag is a holiday in all states.

To check which holidays are enabled for a state, call setState() and check the holidays object:

holiday.setState('nw');
console.log(holiday.holidays);

To enable a additional holidays, set them to true in the holidays object:

holiday.holidays.Rosenmontag = true;
holiday.holidays['Augsburger Friedensfest'] = true;

Author

Jonathan Diehl