Berlin Herbstferien Cover Planner: Who Has the Children Each Day
Go through Berlin’s ten autumn holiday working days one at a time, pick who has the children, and see every hour of your working day that nobody covers.
Ten working days, your Hort hours and your own working day on one chart.
The Herbstferien are two weeks of freedom for a child and ten working days for the parents. The Hort covers more than many expect, but rarely the whole working day. This planner puts your Hort hours, your working hours and your journey on one chart, so you can see where the hours go missing before the first Monday.
What the planner shows
Berlin’s autumn school holidays run from Monday 19 to Saturday 31 October 2026, which leaves ten working days: 19 to 23 and 26 to 30 October. The planner draws each of them as a bar from 6:00 to 20:00, with your working day and journey as a dashed box. Pick who has the children on each day and the hours nobody covers turn red.
How the hours are worked out
Hort hours follow the Berlin rules for ergänzende Förderung und Betreuung: grades 1 to 3 pay nothing and need no needs check for 7:30 to 16:00; early care from 6:00 and late care to 18:00 are booked modules; an open all-day school guarantees 7:30 to 13:30.
A leave day, a swap with another family or a day with grandparents or friends covers the whole working day. A swap is counted as a day you owe back.
A home-office day counts as uncovered, because working is not the same as looking after a child.
Your own Hort may set its holiday hours differently, so check its holiday list. Dates and rules checked on 2 October 2026.
How to use it
Set your working day and journey first, then press Hort for every open day. That shows how much of the problem is the late afternoon and how much is whole days. Then go through the ten days one at a time and spend leave only where the Hort cannot help.