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

  • Brief description

    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.

  • Description

    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.

    Points of sale are

    • Stores of all kinds,
    • stalls and other sales facilities if goods are permanently displayed for sale to the public from a fixed location, and
    • 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, Day of Prayer and Repentance, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve and not on the respective day before Pentecost Sunday, All Saints' Day, Remembrance Day and Sunday of the Dead

  • Prerequisites

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

  • Deadlines

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

  • Required documents

    none

  • Costs

    none

  • Legal basis

  • Legal remedy

    none

  • Procedure

    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.


Responsible departments