Vacation 2022: This is how employees can double their time

Created: 01/02/2022, 12:30 PM

For many, vacation planning is pending for 2022.

A clever combination of vacation and public holidays makes it possible to get a lot of free time.

Munich - Employees in Germany have an average of 28.3 vacation days per year.

But if you are clever, you can double your free time with a little foresighted vacation planning.

This is possible through a combination of vacation days and public holidays *.

Employees in Bavaria can count themselves particularly lucky - there are 13 additional public holidays in addition to the vacation days.

But planning is also worthwhile for everyone else.

Vacation 2022: International Women's Day

Good news for the capital: International Women's Day on March 8, which is a public holiday there, falls on a Tuesday this time.

With four submitted vacation days, there are nine free days in a row.

Holiday 2022: Easter

A relaxing short break at Easter is good - at least for those who don't shy away from school holidays.

This year, Good Friday falls on April 15th, Easter Monday on April 18th.

If you plan well in advance, you can travel a total of 16 days with just eight days of vacation.

This is possible because employees take four vacation days before Good Friday and four days after Easter Monday.

If you don't want to invest eight days off so early in the year, you can organize a total of ten days off in a row with four days off after Easter Monday.

Holidays 2022: Ascension Day and Pentecost

May 1st falls on a Sunday - at the end of the month, with a few cleverly placed vacation days, you can achieve just under a week and a half of free time.

Ascension Day falls on May 26th, a Thursday.

With four vacation days in the corresponding week, a total of nine days off can be achieved.

Whit Monday falls on June 6th this year.

Here, too, a total of nine days of vacation are feasible with just four vacation days.

In Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, June 16 is also a public holiday - Corpus Christi.

So if you use the week after Whit Monday in these federal states and also invest four days of vacation in the week of June 13, you have an impressive 16 days of vacation.

Vacation 2022: In mid-June of last year, many people in St. Peter-Ording enjoyed the summer on the beach.

© Bodo Marks / dpa

Vacation 2022: Day of German Unity

A public holiday in October also gives employees the chance to get more out of their vacation days.

German Unity Day on October 3rd falls on a Monday in 2022.

Those who take the rest of the week off can go on vacation a total of nine days with just four vacation days.

Holiday 2022: Christmas

Nine days of vacation with only four days of vacation will not be available again until the end of the year.

Boxing Day on December 26, 2022 falls on a Monday.

If you take the rest of the week off, you can lengthen the Christmas spirit a little and take a total of nine days off.