Black Week 2026: Germany Dates, Deals and Return Rules

Black Week 2026 at a glance

Black Week 2026 is the week of sales around Black Friday, which falls on Friday 27 November 2026, with Cyber Monday on 30 November. In Germany, as elsewhere, "Black Week" has no official dates: each shop decides when its own Black Week starts and ends, and some, like MediaMarkt and Saturn this year, start a first round of deals in October. This English guide sets out what German retailers have actually published, the German rule that helps you check a discount, and your return rights.

If a page tells you "Black Week runs from 23 to 29 November", it is describing one possible week, not an official one. Always check the shop's own dates. Offers from the stores we track are on our Black Friday deals page, and our guide to when Black Friday 2026 starts covers the US retailers.

What German retailers have published

This table shows what each retailer's own German website said when we read it on 1 November 2026. Where a shop gave no dates, we say so rather than repeat a forecast.

MediaMarkt and Saturn had already run an early round of deals: offers in their German stores from 27 October to 2 November, and online until 8:59 a.m. on 3 November. Those have ended. Expect the next round closer to 27 November.

MediaMarkt and Saturn: returns until 31 December

The most useful detail on MediaMarkt's and Saturn's Black Friday pages is in a footnote. For goods bought between 27 October and 1 December 2026, they give an extended, voluntary right to return or exchange until 31 December 2026. In plain terms:

• It covers purchases from MediaMarkt and Saturn themselves, not from third-party sellers on their websites.
• The goods must come back complete and undamaged by 31 December 2026.
• For online orders, the legal 14-day withdrawal right applies first, with its own conditions, and the voluntary window takes over after it.
• Separately, MediaMarkt's page describes a voluntary 30-day return right from receipt for goods bought from MediaMarkt or Saturn in Germany, on top of the legal rights.

That makes early Christmas shopping at these two chains lower risk: a gift bought in Black Week can still be returned after Christmas Day, as long as it is back by 31 December.

The 30-day lowest price rule

Germany has a rule that helps you check whether a Black Week discount is real. Under section 11 of the Price Indication Ordinance (Preisangabenverordnung, PAngV), a seller who announces a price reduction on goods to consumers must state the lowest total price it charged consumers in the 30 days before the reduction. In practice, a German shop that says "reduced" should also show you the lowest price it charged in the previous 30 days.

How to use it:

• Compare the sale price with the 30-day lowest price, not with a crossed-out "recommended" price. If the two are close, the Black Week saving is small.
• Watch for gradual reductions. The rule lets a shop that cuts a price step by step, without a break, keep referring to the lowest price before the first step.
• Know the exceptions. The rule does not apply to individual price reductions, or to perishable goods marked down because they are about to spoil or expire.

Our guide Are Black Friday deals real? has more ways to check a price history.

Checked Black Week deals

We could not confirm any Black Week offer from our German store pages on the shops' own websites on 1 November, so we list none here yet. MediaMarkt's next round, Amazon.de's dates and other shops' Black Week offers will be added when we can read them on the shops' own sites. Our German store pages, such as cyberport, list their current codes in the meantime.

Returns and guarantees in Germany

Black Week purchases carry the same legal rights as any other purchase in Germany. In brief:

Keep your receipt or order confirmation, and note that third-party sellers on a big retailer's website may have different return terms from the retailer itself.

Cyber Monday in Germany

Cyber Monday 2026 is Monday 30 November. MediaMarkt says that around Cyber Monday there may be additional tech deals and changing promotions, with the details on its offer pages. Purchases on Cyber Monday still fall inside MediaMarkt's and Saturn's extended return window, which covers goods bought up to 1 December. Offers from the stores we track are on our Cyber Monday deals page.

How we check this page

The retailer details come from the shops' own German websites, read on 1 November 2026: mediamarkt.de and saturn.de (including the footnotes to their Black Friday pages), otto.de and amazon.de. The legal rules come from the official German law texts on gesetze-im-internet.de (PAngV section 11 and BGB section 355) and the European Commission's Your Europe pages on guarantees and returns. German texts are paraphrased in English here; this is a shopping guide, not legal advice.

We will read the retailers' pages again on 17, 20 and 24 November and add Amazon.de's dates and MediaMarkt's next offers when they are published. Our other guides are in the Black Friday hub. This guide is written by the SavingArena Editorial Team.