German year round festivals

In Europe, Germany probably has more annual festivals than other counties. In almost every village, they have their own summer festival and beer fairs. There is a rich mixture of Christian and pagan festivals merged over ages to fill the all year round calendar.

It is undoubtedly the most popular festival is Oktoberfest in Munich. The Carnival and Christmas are next important to Germany. Not surprisingly the musical festival that raging from opera seasons to rock bands, open air jazz, and pop start concerts. The monthly festivals overview will introduce to you as below.

January -New Year celebration and Carnival season

February - Climax season

March - Easter Day, and the Rhenish Karneval (Rosenmontag parade is one of highpoint)

April - The witches' Sabbath of Walpurgisnacht

May - the start of many of summer festival with interesting weekend performance, and classical concerts. Whitsun is a religious festival, its variable date may in May or June.

June - famous classical music festival which is also a big festival for all kind of music, concerts and relevant celebration activities in all around cities and areas. There is also a shooting season in northern Germany.  

July - a certainly busy festival month involved celebration of summer fair, beer and wine festivals that opening up in every week. Kinderzeche and Schwormontag are the most favorite folklore events during July. The Bayreuth Opernfest in Wagner and Munich begins its month-long during the late of July.

August - a colorful month to display illumination and fire works in various places.

September - the most famous Oktoberfest take place in this month starts on the second last Saturday. There are many other bacchanalian festivals also in summer, such as Bad Cannstatt's Volksfest.

October - the Winfest in the Rhineland and Freimarkt folk festival in Bermen, along with a number of religious festivals in the Alpine region.

November - a month long Hamberger Dom fair in Humber which attracted great numbers of people.

December - a beautiful month, people busy with shopping, gifts, decoration and Christmas Market, which you are able to purchase all kinds of handmade goods, from toys, leatherwear, to sweets and biscuits.

i have been learning German for sometime,  so i started to study German history and custom included its festival, it is amazing, and i also got to know most German don't speak English, the speak German only.