Academic calendar – semester dates
You can find below general information about our semester dates (summer and winter semester), as well as public holidays in Bavaria, Germany. Please note that specific semester dates may vary slightly each year due to calendar irregularities.
For detailed and up-to-date semester dates, please consult theOfficial Academic Calendar (available in German).
| Duration: | 15 weeks |
| Orientation Days for exchange students: | 2 weeks before the start of the semester |
| Semester and lecture period start: | 15 March |
| Exam registration: | From the beginning to the end of May |
| Examination period: | From the beginning to the end of July |
| Announcement of results: | Generally on 31 July (if this falls on a weekend, results may be published one day earlier or later) |
| Semester break: | 1 August to 30 September |
| Duration: | 15 weeks |
| Orientation Days for exchange students: | 2 weeks before the start of the semester |
| Semester and lecture period start: | 1 October |
| Christmas break: | 24 December to 6 January (inclusive) |
| Lecture period ends: | Mid-January |
| Exam registration: | From the beginning to the end of November |
| Examination period: | Mid-January to mid-February |
| Announcement of results: | Generally on 14 February (if this falls on a weekend, results may be published one day earlier or later) |
| Semester break: | 15 February to 15 March |
| New Year's Day | 1 January |
| Epiphany | 6 January |
| Good Friday | (date varies) |
| Easter Monday | (date varies) |
| Labour Day | 1 May |
| Ascension Day | (40 days after Easter) |
| Whit Monday | (Pentecost Monday – 50 days after Easter) |
| Corpus Christi | (60 days after Easter – observed in Catholic regions) |
| Assumption Day | 15 August (observed in predominantly Catholic communities in Bavaria) |
| German Unity Day | 3 October |
| All Saints' Day | 1 November |
| Christmas Day | 25 December |
| Boxing Day | 26 December |
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