Opening hours of gemstone and jewelry stores in 2025

Stores may be open on Sundays and public holidays in tourist destinations with a particularly high level of tourism if they offer typical local goods for sale.

March 10, 2025
The photo shows a view of the display in a gemstone store. You can see the hands of two customers reaching for the stones.
© Soonteam, René Nolte

This regulation of the Rhineland-Palatinate Shop Opening Act and the corresponding implementing ordinance of the Supervisory and Services Directorate also applies to gemstone and jewelry stores in Idar-Oberstein. Accordingly, they may be open on the 40 Sundays and public holidays preceding November 1.

For the year 2025, this means that gemstone and jewelry stores may be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Sunday, March 16, and on all subsequent Sundays and public holidays up to and including Sunday, October 26, 2025.

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