Public Holiday Calendars

Subscribe in your calendar app and public holidays for South Korea, Japan, and Germany arrive automatically. Korean dates are derived from statute and astronomical calculation, then checked against the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute's special-day data. Japanese dates follow 内閣府「国民の祝日について」. German feeds cover the nationwide set plus per-state feeds that add holidays under state law. Every entry carries its source.

Whole countries

South Korea

All South Korean public holidays

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/kr.ics Open in calendar app

Japan

All Japanese public holidays

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/jp.ics Open in calendar app

Germany

Nationwide — only holidays valid in all 16 states (state holidays excluded)

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de.ics Open in calendar app

German state feeds

Germany · Brandenburg

The nationwide set plus holidays under Brandenburg state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_bb.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Berlin

The nationwide set plus holidays under Berlin state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_be.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Baden-Württemberg

The nationwide set plus holidays under Baden-Württemberg state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_bw.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Bayern

The nationwide set plus holidays under Bayern state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_by.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Bremen

The nationwide set plus holidays under Bremen state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_hb.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Hessen

The nationwide set plus holidays under Hessen state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_he.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Hamburg

The nationwide set plus holidays under Hamburg state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_hh.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Niedersachsen

The nationwide set plus holidays under Niedersachsen state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_ni.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Nordrhein-Westfalen

The nationwide set plus holidays under Nordrhein-Westfalen state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_nw.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Rheinland-Pfalz

The nationwide set plus holidays under Rheinland-Pfalz state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_rp.ics Open in calendar app

Germany · Schleswig-Holstein

The nationwide set plus holidays under Schleswig-Holstein state law

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/de_sh.ics Open in calendar app

Merged into one feed

South Korea and Japan

All holidays from both countries, each marked [KR] or [JP]

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/kr_jp.ics Open in calendar app

Non-overlapping days only

South Korea only

South Korean holidays that are not days off in Japan

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/kr_only.ics Open in calendar app

Japan only

Japanese holidays that are not days off in South Korea

https://holidays.lunalism.com/feeds/jp_only.ics Open in calendar app

Entries in the Japanese feed are named in the original Japanese (元日, 休日（元日）, and so on). Entries in the German feeds use the wording of the statute (Neujahr, 1. Mai, and so on).

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South Korea

Coverage

Confirmed

Provisional

Entries

The provisional range is calculated from the current rules. It has not been confirmed yet and will change if the rules are amended or a temporary holiday is designated.

Japan

Coverage

Entries

Every entry is confirmed. There is no provisional range.

Germany

Coverage

Entries

Only nationwide holidays that apply in all 16 states are included. State-level holidays are not. Every entry is confirmed. There is no provisional range.

South Korea and Japan

Coverage

Confirmed

Provisional

Entries

The [KR] and [JP] prefix on each entry shows which country the holiday belongs to. Coverage runs to whichever of the two feeds ends first.

Days off in South Korea only

Coverage

Confirmed

Provisional

Entries

Korean holidays that both countries take off are excluded. A holiday is dropped when it falls on the same date, even under a different name. Only Japanese public holidays are used for this comparison; weekends are not considered. Coverage runs to whichever of the two feeds ends first.

Days off in Japan only

Coverage

Entries

Japanese holidays that both countries take off are excluded. A holiday is dropped when it falls on the same date, even under a different name. Only Korean public holidays are used for this comparison; weekends are not considered. Every entry is confirmed, and coverage runs to whichever of the two feeds ends first.

Last updated

Source checking

Every date is checked against our own calculation and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute's special-day data. Beyond that, checking the statute and gazette text is counted per entry in the rule table (a holiday definition and its provision); the number below is how many of the 48 entries have not been checked yet.

32 of 48 awaiting source checks

The two do not always agree. 14 August 2015 — a temporary holiday marking 70 years since liberation — is absent from the special-day API. It was confirmed from the 4 August 2015 cabinet resolution and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement, and included.