dayjs-feiertage

dayjs-feiertage

A dayjs plugin for German holidays (Feiertage) using feiertagejs.

Installation

# pnpm
pnpm add dayjs-feiertage dayjs

# npm
npm install dayjs-feiertage dayjs

# yarn
yarn add dayjs-feiertage dayjs

Quick Start

import dayjs from "dayjs";
import dayjsFeiertage from "dayjs-feiertage";

// Extend dayjs with the plugin
dayjs.extend(dayjsFeiertage);

// Check if a date is a holiday
dayjs("2025-12-25").isHoliday("BUND"); // true

// Check if a date is a Sunday or holiday
dayjs("2025-12-25").isSunOrHoliday("BUND"); // true

// Get all holidays for a year
dayjs("2025-01-01").getHolidaysOfYear("BY"); // Array of Holiday objects

API Reference

Instance Methods

isHoliday(region: Region): boolean

Check if the date is a holiday in the specified region.

dayjs("2025-12-25").isHoliday("BUND"); // true - Christmas
dayjs("2025-01-06").isHoliday("BW"); // true - Heilige Drei Könige (Baden-Württemberg)
dayjs("2025-01-06").isHoliday("NI"); // false - Not a holiday in Niedersachsen

isSunOrHoliday(region: Region): boolean

Check if the date is a Sunday or a holiday in the specified region.

dayjs("2025-01-26").isSunOrHoliday("BUND"); // true - Sunday
dayjs("2025-12-25").isSunOrHoliday("BUND"); // true - Holiday
dayjs("2025-01-27").isSunOrHoliday("BUND"); // false - Regular Monday

isSpecificHoliday(holidayName: HolidayType, region?: Region): boolean

Check if the date is a specific holiday. Region defaults to "ALL".

dayjs("2025-05-29").isSpecificHoliday("CHRISTIHIMMELFAHRT"); // true
dayjs("2025-12-25").isSpecificHoliday("ERSTERWEIHNACHTSFEIERTAG", "BUND"); // true
dayjs("2025-10-03").isSpecificHoliday("DEUTSCHEEINHEIT"); // true

getHolidayByDate(region?: Region): Holiday | undefined

Get the holiday object for this date. Returns undefined if not a holiday. Region defaults to "ALL".

const holiday = dayjs("2025-12-25").getHolidayByDate("BUND");
console.log(holiday?.name); // "ERSTERWEIHNACHTSFEIERTAG"
console.log(holiday?.translate("de")); // "Erster Weihnachtsfeiertag"
console.log(holiday?.dateString); // "2025-12-25"

getHolidaysOfYear(region: Region): Holiday[]

Get all holidays for the year of this date in the specified region.

const holidays = dayjs("2025-01-01").getHolidaysOfYear("BUND");
holidays.forEach((h) => {
  console.log(`${h.dateString}: ${h.translate("de")}`);
});

Static Methods

dayjs.addHolidayTranslation(isoCode: string, translation: TranslationTable): void

Add custom translations for holiday names.

dayjs.addHolidayTranslation("en", {
  NEUJAHRSTAG: "New Year's Day",
  ERSTERWEIHNACHTSFEIERTAG: "Christmas Day",
  CHRISTIHIMMELFAHRT: "Ascension Day",
});

dayjs.setHolidayLanguage(lng: string): void

Set the default language for holiday translations.

dayjs.setHolidayLanguage("en");

dayjs.getHolidayLanguage(): string

Get the currently set language.

console.log(dayjs.getHolidayLanguage()); // "de"

Types

Region

German state codes and special regions:

Code	State/Region
BW	Baden-Württemberg
BY	Bavaria (Bayern)
BE	Berlin
BB	Brandenburg
HB	Bremen
HH	Hamburg
HE	Hesse (Hessen)
MV	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
NI	Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen)
NW	North Rhine-Westphalia
RP	Rhineland-Palatinate
SL	Saarland
SN	Saxony (Sachsen)
ST	Saxony-Anhalt
SH	Schleswig-Holstein
TH	Thuringia (Thüringen)
BUND	Nationwide holidays only
ALL	All holidays (any region)
AUGSBURG	City of Augsburg

HolidayType

Available holiday identifiers:

• NEUJAHRSTAG - New Year's Day
• HEILIGEDREIKOENIGE - Epiphany
• KARFREITAG - Good Friday
• OSTERSONNTAG - Easter Sunday
• OSTERMONTAG - Easter Monday
• TAG_DER_ARBEIT - Labour Day
• CHRISTIHIMMELFAHRT - Ascension Day
• PFINGSTSONNTAG - Whit Sunday
• PFINGSTMONTAG - Whit Monday
• FRONLEICHNAM - Corpus Christi
• MARIAHIMMELFAHRT - Assumption of Mary
• DEUTSCHEEINHEIT - German Unity Day
• REFORMATIONSTAG - Reformation Day
• ALLERHEILIGEN - All Saints' Day
• BUBETAG - Day of Repentance and Prayer
• ERSTERWEIHNACHTSFEIERTAG - Christmas Day
• ZWEITERWEIHNACHTSFEIERTAG - Boxing Day
• WELTKINDERTAG - World Children's Day
• WELTFRAUENTAG - International Women's Day
• AUGSBURGER_FRIEDENSFEST - Augsburg Peace Festival

Holiday Object

interface Holiday {
  name: HolidayType;
  date: Date;
  dateString: string; // YYYY-MM-DD format
  regions: Region[];
  translate(lang?: string): string | undefined;
  equals(date: Date): boolean;
  getNormalizedDate(): number;
}

Timezone Handling

All dates are interpreted in German timezone (Europe/Berlin). The underlying feiertagejs library automatically converts any Date object to German timezone before checking holidays.

Development

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Run tests
pnpm test

# Run tests in watch mode
pnpm test:watch

# Build
pnpm build

# Type check
pnpm lint

License

MIT

Related

• feiertagejs - The underlying library for German holiday calculations
• dayjs - Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js