• Winter semester (start - end): 01.10 - 31.03.
• Summer semester (start - end): 01.04. - 30.09.

• Lecture period winter semester 2022/23 (start - end): 10.10.2022 - 03.02.2023
• Lecture period summer semester 2023 (start - end): 03.04.2023 - 17.07.2023

• Whitsun holidays at RUB (both days included) 27.05.2023 – 04.06.2023
• Christmas holidays at RUB (both days included) tba

The following days are public holidays in Germany. This means that no lectures take place on these days, most shops are closed and buses and trains usually run according to the Sunday timetable.

2023

• 01.01.2023, New Year*
• 07.04.2023, Good Friday
• 09.04.2023, Easter Sunday
• 10.04.2023, Easter Monday
• 01.05.2023, Labour Day*
• 18.05.2023, Ascension Day
• 28.05.2023, Whit Sunday
• 29.05.2023, Whit Monday
• 08.06.2023, Corpus Christi
• 03.10.2023, German Unity Day*
• 01.11.2023, All Saint's Day*
• 24.12.2023, Christmas Eve* (some shops may close earlier on this day)
• 25.12.2023, Christmas Day*
• 26.12.2023, Boxing Day*
• 31.12.2023, New Year's Eve* (some shops may close earlier on this day)

(*The holidays marked with an asterisk are on the same date every year.)