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Guten Tag as a closing salutation is by far not as widely used as Auf Wiedersehen, which should be fine for all purposes where you would also use Sie instead of Du.

For a more informal salutation, you could use "Tschüss!", which I would translate as "See you!" or "Bye!". In southern Germany (especially Baden-Württemberg), there's also "Ade!" (emphasis on the e), and younger people often use "Tschau!".

Tschüss, Ade and Tschau have the same roots, originally even with a religious connotation (french adieu, "be with god" → atschüstschüss), but that is long gone.

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