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Or do you ever wonder if stores are open somewhere else when they are closed here?
To help sort out these questions, here is a chart showing all the public holidays in Luxembourg and neighboring areas. Note that even when stores and businesses are closed, restaurants may still be open (but not always). Call ahead to be sure.
To see all the specific public holiday dates for the current year, have a look at 2009 Public holidays in Luxembourg or go to World Travel Guide.
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| New Year's Day | January 1 |  |
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| Carnival Monday | Precedes Ash Wednesday | |
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| Labor Day | May 1 | |
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| Victoire 1945 | May 8 | |
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| Ascension | 40 days after Easter | |
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| Pentecost (Whit) Monday | 50 days after Easter | |
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| Corpus Christi (Fronleichnam) | 2nd Thursday after Pentecost | |
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| National Day | June 23 | July 21 | July 14 | Oct. 3 | |
| Assumption | August 15 | |
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| All Saints Day | November 1 | |
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| Armistice Day | Sunday before First Advent | |
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| Sunday of the Dead (Totensonntag) | Sunday before First Advent | |
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| Christmas | December 25 | |
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| St. Stephen's Day | December 26 | |
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*A note about Germany. There are national holidays (N) which apply to all of Germany and some regional holidays, mainly religious, which apply only in certain areas. The public holidays listed here include national holidays and only those regional holidays that apply to the Rhineland area (R), which includes Trier.
Some of these regional holidays are also observed in other areas of Germany; and there are additional regional holidays** - not all listed here - which are observed in parts of Germany, but not in Rhineland (Trier). For full details of national and regional public holidays in Germany, see the Germany National Tourist Office or the World Travel Guide web site.
If you are interested in knowing about school holidays, visit the AWCL School calendar page