About Us: Mission, Services, and Authors
On this page, you will find information about our project, its goals and mission, the services we offer, how we work, and our team of authors who create the website’s content.
Our Mission and Goals
About the Project
Our website is an information and service project about calendars, yearly events, holidays, days off, and school vacations in Germany. We collect, organize, and clearly show calendar data so it is easy to use in daily life, at work, for planning, learning, and for creating digital services.
The information on our site is available in several languages. This makes it easy to understand and useful for a wide international audience interested in Germany and its culture.
We want to make complex calendar information easy to understand, accessible, and easy to compare—by years, regions, federal states, and topics.
Goals and Mission
Our mission is to provide accurate, up-to-date, and well-organized calendar information that people can trust.
The main goals of the project:
- Make it easier to find dates of holidays, school breaks, and days off;
- Allow people to compare calendars by region and by year;
- Create a clear and convenient knowledge base about calendars;
- Offer tools and data for websites, apps, and business needs.
We help both regular users and professionals: developers, editors, analysts, teachers, HR specialists, and website owners.
Methodology: How We Create Calendars and Information
All calendar data and information on the site are created based on accuracy, transparency, and expert knowledge.
The German calendar and data about days, seasons, and time in Germany are based on the Law on Units of Measurement and Time Definition (EinhZeitG), and information from the Federal Physical-Technical Institute.
Dates of national public holidays in all of Germany are collected and checked using official data from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI).
Dates of public holidays in each federal state are collected and checked using official open sources from each state.
Dates for the start and end of school vacations are based on official data from the ministries of education of the 16 German federal states, as well as information from the Secretariat of the Conference of Ministers of Education.
Dates of popular German holidays come from different sources: encyclopedias, official church calendars, and materials from institutes or organizations that set special days.
Analytical materials, articles, and reference texts are written by our authors by hand. The site does not use automatic text generation—every article is checked and edited by a person.
Disclaimer: Even though we do our best to check all dates for holidays, school breaks, and other yearly events, we cannot guarantee that all information is 100% correct. We are not responsible for any decisions made based on the data on our website. For more details, see our website disclaimer.
Our Services
We offer free access to holiday calendars and school vacation calendars for all regions of Germany. If you are interested in Germany and its culture, you can find detailed information about German holidays, their origins, traditions, and ways to say congratulations.
The information section of our site has analytical and reference materials on different topics related to calendars, holidays, and special dates in Germany.
We also offer these services:
- Interactive online calendars for German federal states;
- A tool to compare calendars by state or by year;
- A web service for getting calendar information about Germany;
- Calendars in ICS (iCalendar) format for download and use on different devices or programs;
- Calendars in different digital formats for printing or electronic use;
- Widgets for websites;
- A database of popular holidays.
If you need something special, we can create custom data sets, web services or widgets for your website, or solutions in other digital formats.
Authors
A team of authors, editors, and technical specialists in Germany works on this project. Our authors use the methods described above to analyze official data, write articles and reference materials, and check that dates and regional details are up to date. They also adapt materials for different languages and audiences.
The project leader is Anton Selyunin—a certified economist and IT expert with more than 20 years of professional experience.
The project is always growing: new sections, articles, tools, and ways to work with data appear regularly. We are open to cooperation, suggestions, and feedback.
You can find information about responsibility for the website content at this link.