Public holidays in Switzerland 2026

About these dates

A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.

Dates come from the open-source python-holidays project (0.106, MIT licence), which follows each country’s laws and official calendars; NonWorkingDays built these tables from it on 15 October 2026. Names are shown as the source gives them, in the local language and in English, without machine translation.

Dates marked “estimated” follow lunar or religious calendars and can move by a day when they are announced. Days off decreed at short notice, such as bridge days, may be missing. Check with an official source before you book.

Long weekends count the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) and nationwide public holidays only. “When” counts days by the local date in Bern.

! Checked against Aargau AWA Merkblatt Gesetzliche Feiertage (EG ArR par. 6, per district), Fribourg AMA Gesetzliche Feiertage 2026 / 2027 (Catholic and Reformed communes), Fribourg AMA Gesetzliche Feiertage 2027, Solothurn Arbeitsinspektorat Gesetzliche Feiertage, Neuchatel Jours feries officiels 2026 / 2027 (RSN 941.02), read via Wayback copy of 2026-07-20 because ne.ch refused direct connections, Luzern Gruezi Oeffnungszeiten / Feiertage (public holidays of the canton), Wallis Jours feries (state staff list) and SGS 822.100, Zuerich Feiertage (nine statutory holidays) and Personalamt Feiertage 2026, Basel-Stadt Feiertage 2026 and 2027, Vaud Jours feries 2026 (LPers art. 123), Geneve Jours feries officiels 2026 to 2029, Basel-Landschaft Ruhetagsgesetz par. 2 (consolidation of 2011), Schwyz Personalamt Feiertage 2026, Thurgau Ruhetagsgesetz RB 822.9 (via search summary only), Ticino Giorni festivi (law 843.200, via search summary only), St.Gallen Gesetz ueber Ruhetag und Ladenoeffnung sGS 552.1 (via search summary only), Bern Gesetz ueber die Ruhe an oeffentlichen Feiertagen BSG 555.1 and Personalamt (via search summary only) on 16 October 2026, with caveats: Federal and cantonal holidays compared for 16 of 26 cantons and corrected (Aargau, Fribourg, Solothurn, Neuchâtel, Lucerne, Valais, St. Gallen); 10 cantons not yet checked; district rules in Aargau and half days are not modelled.

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