Karfreitag 2024
Germany · Thursday, April 18, 2024 · FM4, Q2 of FY2024
- Country
- Germany
- Calendar date 2024
- 2024-04-18 (Thursday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2024 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM4 of 12 · Quarter Q2 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Bundesministerium des Innern
About Karfreitag
Public holiday across Germany.
This page is the 2024-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the Germany fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Karfreitag page.
2024 weekday and observance
In 2024, Karfreitag falls on Thursday, April 18. A Thursday holiday is functionally a long weekend: many staff take the Friday as a personal day, so plan critical close milestones earlier in the week.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Thursday, April 18, 2024. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.
Where it lands in FY2024
For organisations on the Germany fiscal calendar, Karfreitag 2024 sits in fiscal month 4 (FM4), inside quarter Q2 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 257 days remaining until fiscal year-end on December 31, 2024. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.
For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Karfreitag 2023 · Karfreitag 2025 · Karfreitag 2026
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Karfreitag 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM4 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.
If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2024 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.
Cross-references
- Printable April template (FM4) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q2 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2024 overview for Germany — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Karfreitag page — year-agnostic background.