VIES Status for Germany

Last 24 hours

84.81%

Last 7 days

83.71%

Last 30 days

83.32%

Rank among member states

#28 of 28

Figures cover 30 days of our samples (2836 for DE), capped at 30 days — not a full month yet unless it says so. All member states averaged 97.77% over the same window.

When Germany Was Unavailable

38 separate outages, 4 d 23 h of observed downtime in total. Times are UTC. Sampling is every 15 minutes, so each window is accurate to within one interval on each side.

Day by Day

One column per UTC day. The number above a column is the percentage of readings that failed that day; a blank means every reading came back.

The Hours Germany Goes Quiet

In our samples, the weakest hour is 22:00–23:00 UTC at 0.00% across 120 readings, and the weakest day is Thursday at 78.69%. That is a description of what we recorded, not a schedule – treat it as a hint about when to retry, not a promise.

By hour of day (UTC)

By weekday

When Outages Start

Which weekday and hour the 38 recorded DE outages began. A long maintenance window counts once, so this is a different question from the charts above – it says when the node tends to drop, not how long it stays down.

Weekday × Hour

DE availability by UTC weekday and hour, across 30 days of samples. Dark green is healthy; red is a slot where the node regularly fails to answer.

Hours are UTC. Hover a cell for the exact figure.

Germany VAT Number Format and Checks

VIES prefix

DE

Format

DE + 9 digits

Example

DE143454214 — SAP SE

Standard VAT rate

19% — Mehrwertsteuer (MwSt)

Questions People Ask

Is VIES down for Germany right now?

No. At our last reading the DE node was answering VIES requests. The reading is at most 15 minutes old, and a member state can drop out between samples.

Why does a valid German VAT number fail to validate?

If the number is well-formed and the DE node is unavailable, the failure is upstream, not in the number. VIES returns a service error rather than "invalid", and any provider that turns that into "invalid" is lying to you. vatnode returns a distinct VIES_UNAVAILABLE error with HTTP 503 so your code can retry instead of rejecting a real customer.

Does Germany publish a VIES maintenance schedule?

The Commission publishes a general VIES maintenance notice, but member states take their own systems down without announcing it to API consumers. That is why this page exists: the recorded history shows when the DE node was actually unreachable, whatever the schedule says.

Can I still validate a German VAT number during an outage?

Not against VIES. What you can do is queue the check and retry — vatnode's monitoring re-runs a subscription's checks through the day and tells you when the answer finally lands, so a customer is not blocked by a member state's downtime.

Where does this data come from?

From the European Commission's own check-status endpoint, sampled every 15 minutes and kept. It is the Commission's view of its member states, not an independent probe, so it can lag a node going down and it describes reachability rather than whether one particular number validates.

Other Member States

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