Store opening hours; display of an individual shopping night on a working day

Owners of a sales outlet in Bavaria may open their store on four individually selectable working days per year for longer than 8 p.m. up to a maximum of midnight. The necessary notification must be submitted to the responsible municipality.

Sales outlets may hold up to four individual open nights on weekdays from 8 p.m. to midnight at the latest. This requires notification to the responsible municipality. The municipality in which the sales outlet is located is responsible.

Sales outlets are

• Stores of all kinds,
• stalls and other sales facilities if goods are permanently displayed for sale to the public from a fixed location, as well as
• sales facilities of cooperatives.

On the following days, an individual open night is not possible:

• on a Sunday and on a public holiday;
• also not on Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Holy Saturday, the Day of Prayer and Repentance, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and not on the day before Whitsunday, All Saints' Day, Remembrance Day and the Sunday of the Dead

• none

You are the owner of a sales outlet in Bavaria and would like to organize an individual open shopping night on a working day.

You can notify the competent authority of the planned opening informally, stating the day and the extended opening hours or - if available - using the online procedure or form provided.

The notification must be made at least two weeks before the planned opening.