Shopping Sunday today: which German towns are open
The finder takes today’s date from your device and shows every town holding a shopping Sunday today, with the area, the hours and the source.
Germany: shops open today?
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| List checked on | 29 October 2026 |
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Time left until Bremen, Ortsteile Altstadt, Bahnhofsvorstadt, Ostertor, Steintor und Fesenfeld sowie Am Schwarzen Meer und Hamburger Straße (zwischen Sankt-Jürgen-Straße und Verdener Straße), 1 November 2026
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Today is not a Sunday. Next Sunday: Sun 1 November.
Prepared by Radif Partners · Method · acts and ordinances checked on 29 October 2026
Whether shops in your town are open today is not written in the law but in the town’s own ordinance or general order. State law only sets the frame: how many Sundays a municipality may release each year, at what hours, and which days are excluded. The finder above therefore takes your device’s date and searches our list for any of the 101 towns that have published a date for today or the coming weekend. Each row names the area, because many large cities release only certain districts, plus the hours and a link to the official source. If today is not a Sunday, the display jumps to the next one. On an ordinary Sunday almost everything is closed; only bakeries for a few hours, petrol stations, shops in railway stations and airports, and shops in recognised resort towns are open. To be safe, check your town’s page shortly before: in recent years courts have repeatedly stopped individual Sundays at short notice.
What “shops open on Sunday” means
A shopping Sunday is an exception to closing hours that a town issues for a specific day, area and time. The Basic Law protects Sunday as a day of rest (Art. 140 Basic Law with Art. 139 Weimar Constitution), so almost every state requires an occasion: a town festival, a market, a fair. Without the event the opening goes too. When an organiser cancels the festival, the town often withdraws the Sunday as well, as Stuttgart did for two districts in 2026.
Today, this weekend, every upcoming date
The “Period” menu works with your date: “Today” shows today only, “This weekend” this week’s Saturday and Sunday, “All upcoming dates” everything still to come. The calendar file takes your selection into your calendar; each entry carries its source. The list is not reloaded in the background: what you see is the state of 29 October 2026.
Every date of one town in a year
Essen: approved Sundays and holidays 2026
26 dates
| Sun 8 March | Essener Innenstadt, 13-18 Uhr |
| Sun 22 March | Stadtteil Werden, 13-18 Uhr |
| Sun 12 April | Stadtteil Rüttenscheid, 13-18 Uhr |
| Sun 19 April | Stadtteil Altenessen, 13-18 Uhr |
Dates by state are on the state pages, such as North Rhine-Westphalia with the most towns, Berlin with the Senate’s eight Sundays, or Bavaria with its new act.