Shop opening hours

In Lower Saxony, sales outlets are allowed from Monday 00.00 to Saturday 24.00. be open.

On Sundays and public holidays, there is a general ban on opening and selling. The Lower Saxony Law on Shop Opening and Sales Hours (NLöffVZG) exhaustively regulates exceptions to this prohibition for:

• pharmacies, petrol stations, points of sale at passenger railway stations, airports and ferry ports,
• Points of sale for the consumption of goods for immediate consumption to meet local needs
• points of sale in health resorts and resorts, excursion destinations and places of pilgrimage,
• sales outlets which, by their size and assortment, are geared towards the sale of everyday goods,
• farm shops,
• the so-called "shopping open Sunday", which is possible four times a year and eight times a year in excursion destinations.

• wholesale trade (sales to resellers and professional customers),
• to the sale of accessories, if it is provided at the place of the main service and the main service is not subject to the provisions of the law,
• on the sale of goods at folk festivals as well as at fixed fairs, markets and exhibitions,
• on restaurants, video stores and service providers.