7 Swiss seasonal fixtures, one calendar — and one day when 97 dates run at once
Look up turnip lantern parades, candle dipping events, St Nicholas events, Christmas markets, Sunday shopping days, carnival events and winter swimming spots separately and you see 7 calendars, never noticing that they overlap. We stacked them: 395 confirmed dates across 267 days, and in 235 cases more than one of them runs in the same municipality on the same day.
🏮 7 seasonal fixtures — 427 entries side by side
The dataset holds 7 seasonal fixtures with 427 entries in total; the largest one accounts for more than half on its own.
Every row leads to its own hub — dates, opening hours and sources are there in detail. If you are looking for a destination rather than a date, the ConvivaPlus Ausflugs-Radar lists permanent excursion destinations by weather, budget and accessibility — this calendar shows what is happening on a given day, the radar what is open all year. All interactive tools are in the tool directory.
| Fixture | Entries | confirmed | Cantons | Window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🏮 turnip lantern parades | 22 | 17 | 6 | Fri 30 Oct – Sat 14 Nov |
| 🕯️ candle dipping events | 58 | 47 | 19 | Wed 23 Sep – Sun 3 Jan |
| 🎅 St Nicholas events | 13 | 7 | 9 | Sat 28 Nov – Sun 6 Dec |
| ✨ Christmas markets | 73 | 69 | 26 | Wed 18 Nov – Sun 10 Jan |
| 🛍️ Sunday shopping days | 218 | 216 | 7 | Sun 25 Jan – Sun 27 Dec |
| 🎭 carnival events | 30 | 29 | 15 | Wed 20 Jan – Sun 28 Feb |
| 🏊 winter swimming spots | 13 | 10 | 5 | Sun 20 Sep – Sun 23 May |
🔦 Season radar — every fixture in one filter
The season radar filters all 427 entries across the 7 seasonal fixtures by type, canton and weekday — and fixed dates only at a click.
All 7 seasonal fixtures sit in one verified dataset here — the ConvivaPlus Saison-Radar runs across all of them. Set your canton and your free evening, and see what else is on that day.
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- Gemeinde Regensdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rüschlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wetzikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Kappel am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Embrach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wetzikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Fällanden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Mönchaltorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Ottenbach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Regensdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Seuzach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Stäfa
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Dietikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Dietlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Feuerthalen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Kleinandelfingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Mettmenstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rafz
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Seegräben
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Turbenthal
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Uster
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Volketswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wädenswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Zell ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Not a Sunday: 6 April 2026 is Easter Monday. Bernese law treats public holidays the same as Sundays — which is why this Monday appears in the same ruling.
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Bauma
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Eglisau
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Geroldswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Hinwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rümlang
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Mönchaltorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Richterswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Fällanden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Hedingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Horgen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Langnau am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rümlang
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Schlieren
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Bonstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Lufingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rafz
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wädenswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Bachenbülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Buchs ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Dielsdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Obfelden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Steinmaur
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Rüschlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Seuzach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Eglisau
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Illnau-Effretikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wald ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Feuerthalen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Fällanden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Steinmaur
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Zell ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Organiser
- Association d'usagère.ers.x des Bains des Pâquis (AUBP)
Winter bathing for two francs: the Bains des Pâquis changing rooms stay open from mid-September to the end of May — there is even a training pass for the Coupe de Noël.
Good to know- Sauna season 20 September 2026 to 23 May 2027: Tuesday to Friday 9 am–9.30 pm, Saturday and Monday 9 am–10.30 pm, Sunday 8 am–10.30 pm; last entry one hour before closing. Tuesdays women only.
- Winter bathing without sauna: changing rooms 9 am–8.30 pm, entry CHF 2. «Coupe de Noël» pass until mid-December CHF 30, adult season pass CHF 50 (wristband CHF 5).
- Since September 2026 no synthetic fabrics in the sauna; cotton voile wraps are available at the Rotonde for CHF 2.
Source: aubp.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 13:30–16:45
- Opening hours
- Three fixed one-hour slots: 13:30–14:30, 14:40–15:40 or 15:45–16:45. You book one of them, not the whole afternoon.
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Tellenmatt, 6370 Stans
- Organiser
- Frauen Gemeinschaft Stans
The earliest candle dipping in the entire survey — and the only one that does not fall in Advent but on a Wednesday afternoon in September. It is also the only one advertised expressly for children without an adult: from age 5, on their own, for one booked hour — everywhere else the organiser requires an accompanying adult.
Good to know- For children from age 5, unaccompanied. Cost CHF 6.00 per child and slot — the only session in this survey charging a participation fee rather than a wax price; everywhere else you pay by weight or per candle. Registration is required; places are limited.
- A regional event calendar lists the same event at «Schulzentrum Turmatt». The organiser itself writes «Schulhaus Tellenmatt» — we follow the organiser.
Source: fgstans.ch · checked on 12 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Bachenbülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Dietlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Mettmenstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Richterswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Seuzach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Organiser
- Association Bains des Rives
Yurt saunas inside the Bellerive pool grounds, open seven days a week in all weathers — and the 10-visit card stays at the old price until 31 October.
Good to know- Opens 7 October 2026. Monday and Tuesday 3–10 pm, Wednesday to Sunday 10 am–10 pm. Tuesday is for women and TINFA people.
- Entry CHF 23 (reduced CHF 19.50) for two hours with tea. 10-visit card at the old price of CHF 190 until 31 October 2026, then CHF 210. Card or Twint only.
Source: bainsdesrives.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Organiser
- Strandbad Sauna Küsnacht
Four sauna cubes on the jetty, 32 places, and a live counter on the website shows how many are free.
Good to know- The 2026/27 season opens Friday 9 October 2026 at 4 pm. Monday to Saturday 4–10 pm, Sunday 10 am–10 pm.
- No reservations: first come, first served. 10-visit card CHF 333; cubes can be hired privately Tuesday to Saturday, noon–4 pm.
Source: strandbadsauna.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Organiser
- Sauna am Rhy
You cool off in the Rhine itself, there is a bathtub filled with Rhine water — and the operators' advice: no flip-flops in the Rhine, they float off to Holland.
Good to know- Season 17 October 2026 (from noon) to 21 March 2027. Monday to Saturday noon–10 pm, Sunday 11 am–10 pm; special hours over the holidays. Monday women only, except between Christmas and New Year and on Carnival Monday.
- Large sauna (90 °C) with a panoramic window onto the Rhine, small sauna (70 °C), three wood-heated yurts. Both saunas textile-free, bathrobe compulsory (hire CHF 7). No reservations.
Source: sauna-am-rhy.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
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- Genossenschaft Seesauna Stäfa
A co-operative sauna for at most 25 people, next to the Seebad Lattenberg — open from 9 am on Wednesdays.
Good to know- Open from 17 October 2026. Monday to Saturday 2–10 pm, Wednesday 9 am–10 pm, Sunday noon–8 pm. Monday is women's day; Monday and Tuesday 2–5 pm bio sauna.
- No reservation needed. Current occupancy is shown live on the website.
Source: seesauna-staefa.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Organiser
- Sauna am See Uster
Three barrel saunas, two of them wood-fired, on the unspoilt Greifensee — and for CHF 8 you can swim without using the sauna.
Good to know- Season 17 October 2026 to 31 March 2027, daily: Monday to Friday 4–10 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10 am–10 pm. No reservations.
- Because of sewer renovation work, hours are shorter in 2026/27, the reduced rate is suspended and there are no massages.
Source: sauna-am-see.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
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- Verein Sauna Lorrainebad
Two wood-stove sauna yurts on the bank of the Aare, löyly infusions as the guests see fit — and live occupancy so nobody walks down to the river for nothing.
Good to know- Season opens Saturday 24 October 2026; according to the club it runs from late October to late March. No reservations, no private groups.
- As of the 2025/26 season (2026/27 hours not yet published): Monday FINTA day 10 am–9.30 pm, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 am–9.30 pm, Wednesday closed, Saturday and Sunday 9 am–9.30 pm; entry CHF 25.
- Sauna from age 18, from 12 with an adult. Cooling off in the Aare is at your own risk.
Source: saunalorrainebad.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
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- Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Fällanden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Hinwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Kappel am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Obfelden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Volketswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
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- Gemeinde Wädenswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00–23:00
- Meeting point
- Zentrum Wallisellen
- Organiser
- Verschönerungsverein Wallisellen (VVW)
According to the ConvivaPlus survey, the second-largest Räbeliechtli parade in the canton of Zurich – and it only takes place every two years.
Good to know- The only large parade of the season that still falls in October rather than November.
- According to the Verschönerungsverein, around 1,800 children take part on average.
- After the parade, FC Wallisellen runs a refreshment stand in the multi-purpose hall.
Source: wallisellen.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Assembly
- ca. 17:30
- Start
- 17:30
- Meeting point
- Badi Biglen
- Food and drink
- Kleine Verpflegung nach dem Umzug
- In bad weather
- Findet bei schlechtem Wetter nicht statt – eine allfällige Absage steht rund zwei Tage vorher auf der Vereinsseite.
- Organiser
- Verein «Gemeinsam für Biglen»
One of the very few parades held on a Sunday.
Source: gemeinsamfuerbiglen.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 16:00–19:00
- Opening hours
- Mon, Tue, Thu 16:00–19:00 · Wed and Fri 14:00–20:00 · Sat and Sun 10:00–16:00
- Meeting point
- Quartierzentrum Veltheim, Bachtelstrasse 71, 8400 Winterthur
- Organiser
- Unabhängige Freiwilligengruppe unter dem Patronat des Ortsverein Veltheim
The earliest multi-day candle-dipping event in the whole survey: the first wax pot here is warm on 2 November — before a single Christmas market in Switzerland has been set up.
Good to know- On Thursday 12.11 the organiser states there is «only candle dipping for schools» — the last public day is 11 November.
- Mornings as well as Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoons until 16:00 are reserved for school classes.
- Prices: beeswax CHF 4.60/100 g, coloured wax (paraffin/stearin) CHF 4.20/100 g.
- No registration needed for individuals. Maximum occupancy 30 people at a time; when busy, a limit of 2 candles per person applies.
- Schools from Veltheim have priority when registering.
Everything on Winterthur · Veltheim→
Source: kerzenziehen-veltheim.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 15:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Tuesday to Friday 15:00–20:00 · Wednesday from 14:15 · Saturday and Sunday 10:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Foyer der Hofmatt, 6315 Oberägeri
- Organiser
- Jufrii Oberägeri
The association advertises its candle dipping as a fixture, not a single date: «Das jährlich vom Verein organisierte Kerzenziehen findet jeweils im November statt.» Accordingly the six days of 2026 were set as early as September — and Oberägeri was thus, until early October, the only Zug entry in this survey with a confirmed date for 2026.
Source: jufrii.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Exagon AG, Räffelstrasse 10, 8045 Zürich
- Organiser
- Exagon AG / Kerzenwerk
The earliest opening day in the city of Zurich — the first wax pot here is warm ten days before the Zurich candle dipping on Hechtplatz. (In the canton, Winterthur-Veltheim opens two days earlier.) And it is the only place in the survey with a «candle cloakroom»: unfinished candles are hung up and completed on another day.
Good to know- For 2026 the organiser publishes only the opening day («The next candle dipping will be open again from 4 November 2026») — no end date and no daily opening hours. We do not write down an ending that is stated nowhere.
- Published prices: coloured candles CHF 3.80/100 g, beeswax CHF 4.80/100 g, white blanks for over-dipping CHF 4.00/100 g. Wick CHF 1.50 (deducted again from the finished candle, except for multi-wick candles).
- Minimum price CHF 3.00 per candle.
- The self-service café Franzl in the gallery serves home-made specialities.
Source: kerzenwerk.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 17:30–19:00
- Meeting point
- Offener Bücherschrank am Eingang des Kurparks
- Destination
- Gärtnerhaus im Kurpark (Umtrunk ab ca. 18:30)
- Food and drink
- Umtrunk mit Lebkuchen, gesponsert vom Römer-Quartierverein
- Preparation
- Räbenschnitzen am selben Nachmittag: Do 5. November 2026, 13:30–16:45, Anmeldung nötig, CHF 7.– pro Räbe.
- Organiser
- Familienzentrum Karussell Baden
Good to know- Taking part in the parade is free.
- Bring a turnip lantern or a lantern with an LED tea light, or a tea light and a lighter.
Source: karussell-baden.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00
- Meeting point
- Unterillnau: Hagenstrasse vor dem Tageshort · Oberillnau: Gstückstrasse
- Destination
- Schule Illnau
- Food and drink
- Würstli, Suppe, Kuchen, Glühwein und Punsch bei der Schule
- Preparation
- Räbenverkauf: Sa 31. Oktober 2026, 9–11 Uhr beim Restaurant «Schmitte da Nino». Essensbon-Vorverkauf 20.–30.10. in der Bibliothek Illnau (günstiger als vor Ort).
- Organiser
- Elternverein Illnau
At both meeting points there is singing before the start – with musical accompaniment by the SJMIE.
Everything on Illnau-Effretikon · Illnau→
Source: evillnau.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Friday, 6 November 202618:00KüttigenAG🏮 turnip lantern parade ·Räbeliechtli-Umzug Küttigen✓Open page
- Assembly
- 17:45 an den Klassen-Treffpunkten
- Start
- 18:00–18:45
- Meeting point
- Neues Schulhaus Dorf
- Organiser
- Elternverein Küttigen, zusammen mit der Schule Küttigen
For all kindergarten children and the forest playgroup – interested schoolchildren are expressly welcome.
Source: evk-faz.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 17:30
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Meinisberg
- Food and drink
- Buffet beim Schulhaus mit Kürbissuppe, Wurst, Speckzopf, Gebäck und heissem Tee
- Organiser
- Elternverein Meinisberg
Turnip lantern OR paper lantern – here both kinds of light walk in the same parade.
Source: evmeinisberg.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Assembly
- ab 18:00
- Start
- 18:15
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Weierweid, Iberg (8405 Winterthur)
- Destination
- Freizeitanlage Chiesgrueb
- Food and drink
- Kürbissuppe und Wienerli am Ziel; für jedes Kind gibt es ein Wienerli gratis, warme Getränke vor Ort
- Preparation
- Gemeinsames Räbenschnitzen: Mi 4. November 2026, 14–16 Uhr, Freizeitanlage Chiesgrueb. Werkzeug und Räben sind vorhanden.
- Organiser
- Freiwillige aus dem Quartier Iberg
A leisurely loop through the neighbourhood, rounded off at the finish.
Everything on Winterthur · Iberg→
Source: raebeliechtli-iberg.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Assembly
- 18:15 (grosse Route) · 18:30 (kleine Route)
- Start
- 18:30–19:30
- Meeting point
- Grosse Route: MFO-Park · Kleine Route: Wiese beim Schulhaus Baumacker (neben dem GZ)
- Destination
- Liguster Sportplatz (Ankunft beider Gruppen ca. 19:30)
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Zürich-Oerlikon
Two routes at different paces: the long one is accompanied by drummers, the short one is for small children and opens with a song before setting off.
Everything on Zurich · Oerlikon→
Source: qv-oerlikon.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 19:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Pausenplatz Schulhaus Scherr
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Oberstrass (QVO)
The latest start in the entire survey: elsewhere the parades set off at 17:30 or 18:00, here only at 19:00 — the only one that steps off in full darkness.
Everything on Zurich · Oberstrass→
Source: qvo.ch · checked on 9 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Sat 07.11 and Sun 08.11 11:00–20:00 · Mon–Fri 09.–13.11 13:30–20:00 · Sat 14.11 11:00–20:00 · Sun 15.11 11:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Bertschikerstrasse 6, 8625 Gossau ZH
- Organiser
- Viva Kirche Gossau
Nine days in a row until 20:00, including all the weekdays in between — Gossau has the densest evening coverage of the early November week.
Good to know- According to the organiser, the proceeds go entirely to charitable projects.
- Prices are not published on the organiser's website.
Source: vivakirche-gossau.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (since 1958, every year on the first Saturday in November) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Destination
- Dorfplatz Horgen
- Food and drink
- Heisse Wienerli und Semmeli für die Kinder auf dem Dorfplatz
- Organiser
- Pro Horgen
Route from Heubachstrasse via Zugerstrasse and Alte Landstrasse into the centre – unchanged since 1958.
Source: horgen.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- Monday to Friday 14:00–18:00 · Wednesday also 18:00–20:00 · Saturday and Sunday 13:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindehaus, Zentralstrasse 40, 8610 Uster
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche Uster
Uster has two independent candle-dipping offerings — the Neuwies church and this one. This one also dips for the market: the team makes beeswax candles for sale at the UsterMärt on 26 and 27 November 2026.
Good to know- From 2 to 7 November 2026 the dipping is reserved for schools (fully booked). Open to the public from Saturday 7 November, every day until Saturday 21 November.
- Coloured candles and candles of 60 % beeswax are dipped; decorate on your own or with help. Next to it a story tent: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons 14:00–17:00, stories at 15:00 and 16:00.
Everything on Uster · Kirchgemeindehaus Zentralstrasse→
Source: refuster.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 17:30
- Meeting point
- Kiesplatz vor der Klosterkirche
- Destination
- Klosterpark Wettingen
- Food and drink
- Brötli und Tee zum Abschluss
- Organiser
- Familienstern Wettingen
The parade winds through the monastery park, with singing along the way.
Source: familienstern-wettingen.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00–22:00
- Meeting point
- Gruppe 1: Station Schweighof der Uetlibergbahn (18:00) · Gruppe 2: Kindergarten Im Rossweidli (18:00) · Gruppe 3: Schulhaus Bachtobel (18:10) · Gruppe 4: Brunnenplatz Adolf-Lüchinger-Strasse (18:10)
- Destination
- Friesenbergplatz
- Food and drink
- Festbetrieb auf dem Friesenbergplatz mit Grill, Suppe, heissen und kalten Getränken und Musik
- In bad weather
- Findet bei jeder Witterung statt. Fackeln sind nicht erlaubt.
- Preparation
- Ausgabe der Räben und Verzehrbons für Kinder: Do 5. November 2026, 17–19 Uhr, Friesenbergplatz vor dem Coop.
- Organiser
- Familienheim-Genossenschaft Zürich (FGZ)
Four parades, one destination: a star march from four residential areas, each about half an hour on foot.
Everything on Zurich · Friesenberg→
Source: fgzzh.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00
- Meeting point
- Wolfswinkel 9 · Kreuzung Bächlerstrasse / Hungerbergstrasse · Kirche Glaubten
- Destination
- Sportanlage Fronwald
- Food and drink
- Heisser Punsch und ein Weggen vom Quartierverein bei der Sportanlage Fronwald
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Zürich-Affoltern
Three parades, each accompanied by a music group.
Everything on Zurich · Affoltern→
Source: portal.zh-affoltern.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Zürich-Albisrieden
No shifting date: Albisrieden parades «always on the first Saturday in November» — in 2026 that falls on 7 November.
Everything on Zurich · Albisrieden→
Source: zuerich-albisrieden.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:15–20:00
- Meeting point
- Kürbergstrasse / Am Börtli (Besammlung 18:30, Abmarsch 18:45) · Segantinistrasse / Regensdorferstrasse (18:30 / 18:45) · Tramstation Frankental (18:15 / 18:30) · Schulhaus Rütihof (18:15 / 18:30) · Schulhaus Am Wasser (18:30 / 18:45)
- Destination
- Platz vor der reformierten Kirche Höngg
- Food and drink
- Jedes Kind, das mit einem Räbeliechtli mitläuft, erhält gratis einen frischen Weggen
- In bad weather
- Findet bei jeder Witterung statt.
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Zürich-Höngg
A star march with five parades, each led by a drummer; police and fire brigade secure the routes.
Source: zuerich-hoengg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 12:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- SAT 12:00–20:00 · SUN 10:00–18:00 · Public holidays: 24 December 10:00–17:00, 25 December 10:00–17:00, 31 December 10:00–17:00, 1 January 12:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Hotel UTO KULM, Uetliberg, Räume «Foresto» / «Legno», 8143 Uetliberg
- Food and drink
- Das Kerzenziehen lässt sich als Gruppenanlass mit einem Weihnachtsessen im Hotel kombinieren.
- Organiser
- UTO KULM AG
The only event in the survey that runs past New Year: it starts on 7 November and only ends on 3 January 2027 — at a point when, everywhere else in the survey, no wax pot has been warm for a fortnight.
Good to know- Open only at weekends (plus the public holidays listed) — anyone arriving on a weekday finds the door shut.
- The price is CHF 5.50 per 100 grams including the wick.
- Book a 45-minute slot via the online form; a candle typically takes 20 to 30 minutes.
- Groups of 31 or more go through the banqueting team, not the form.
Everything on Zurich · Uetliberg→
Source: utokulm.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 12:00–18:30
- Opening hours
- Sun 08.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 11.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 13.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 14.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 15.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 18.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 20.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 21.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 22.11 12:00–15:30
- Meeting point
- Kirche Neuwies, Neuwiesenstrasse 10, 8610 Uster
- Organiser
- Kirche Neuwies Uster
Two Friday evenings until 22:00 — the latest dipping time confirmed for 2026 in this survey, and the only place to offer it twice (the Guthirt youth centre in Zurich-Wipkingen reaches it on a single evening; the Schaffhausen dipping ran until 22:30 in 2025 but has not yet published its 2026 hours). Anyone who only has time after work finds a window here that barely exists anywhere else.
Good to know- Prices: paraffin wax CHF 3.60/100 g, beeswax CHF 4.60/100 g.
- Nine published opening days across two weekends — in between it is not open continuously.
Everything on Uster · Neuwies→
Source: kirche-neuwies.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–21:00
- Opening hours
- Daily 14:00-21:00 · on Wednesday 2 December only until 18:00
- Meeting point
- Begegnungsort VIVA, Rheinstrasse 46, 8500 Frauenfeld
- Organiser
- Evangelische Kirchgemeinde Frauenfeld und Katholische Kirchgemeinde FrauenfeldPLUS
23 days in a row, each of them open for seven hours — and ecumenically so: the Protestant and Catholic parishes run the same room together. Four stations, three with paraffin and one with beeswax, plus white blanks to dip in colour.
Good to know- Open from kindergarten age, i.e. from 4 years; children accompanied by an adult.
- Groups of 10 or more can book on selected mornings. During regular opening hours no reservations are possible, according to the organiser.
- The net proceeds go to charitable organisations; in 2026 the beneficiaries are Stiftung Wunderlampe and Stiftung Sonnenhalde Münchwilen.
Source: evang-frauenfeld.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Start
- 13:00–19:00
- Opening hours
- By booking only, in 2-hour slots: Wednesday 11 Nov 13:00–19:00 · Thursday 12 Nov and Friday 13 Nov 08:00–12:00 and 13:00–19:00 · Saturday 14 Nov 09:00–17:00 · Sunday 15 Nov 10:00–16:00 · Monday 16 Nov and Tuesday 17 Nov 13:00–19:00 · Wednesday 18 Nov 13:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Gewächshaus der Gartenbauschule Hünibach, Chartreusestrasse, 3626 Hünibach
- Organiser
- Kerzenziehen Hünibach
Candles are dipped in the greenhouse of the Hünibach horticultural school — for the second time in 2026 — and by booking only: two-hour slots with seven places each for those dipping.
Good to know- Priced by weight: candles CHF 31.– per kilo; floating candles, tealights and torches at unit prices. Cash or Twint. Children aged 5 to 8 accompanied; bring a cloth and a transport box.
- Parking is very limited along Chartreusestrasse.
Everything on Hilterfingen · Hünibach→
Source: kerzenziehen-huenibach.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Schlossstrasse 5, 3110 Münsingen
- Organiser
- Verein Schlossstrasse 5
The dipping takes place in a workshop and community house with open studios, a wood workshop and a Repair Café — and the association expressly takes bookings from school classes outside opening hours.
Good to know- The association has not yet published daily hours or prices for 2026 (as of 05.10.2026); the page lists the run as a «preview».
Source: schlossstrasse5.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 18:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Schulareal Gyrisberg
- Organiser
- Elternforum Jegenstorf
Source: jegenstorf.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:30–21:00
- Meeting point
- Busswil, 8371 Busswil
- Organiser
- Dorftreff Rägeboge Busswil
One of the latest dates of the season – and, running from 18:30 to 21:00, one of the longest evenings.
Everything on Sirnach · Busswil→
Source: sirnach.ch · checked on 6 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00–22:00
- Opening hours
- Fri 13.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 14.11 14:00–21:00 · Sun 15.11 13:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Jugendraum unter der Kirche Guthirt, Guthirtstrasse 3–7, 8037 Zürich
- Food and drink
- Gemütliches Kafistübli — auch für Leute, die nur einen Halt einschalten wollen.
- Organiser
- Pfarrei Guthirt Zürich
Three days, one weekend, and the wax pot is cold again: together with Bülach the shortest multi-day dipping window in the survey. Shorter still is only the single evening in Pfäffikon SZ. The sales proceeds go to local charitable institutions.
Good to know- The event is organised by volunteers.
- The parish publishes exactly these three dates; no further days are announced for 2026.
Everything on Zurich · Wipkingen→
Source: guthirt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Start
- 13:30–17:30
- Opening hours
- Wed 13:30–17:30 · Thu 15:15–17:30 (parent and child) · Fri 17:00–21:00 (experimenting with wax, from age 14) · Sat and Sun 13:30–17:30
- Meeting point
- Freizeitanlage Chrüzacher, Holzmattstrasse 6, 8953 Dietikon
- Organiser
- Freizeitanlage Chrüzacher
Dietikon separates its audiences cleanly: Thursday belongs to parents with small children (3 to 7), Friday evening to adults and teenagers from 14 who want to experiment with wax.
Good to know- as of 08.09.2026 the Chrüzacher leisure centre does not list the dates on its own website; we read them directly in the regional Limmatstadt events calendar (not in a search-result summary). That is one step further from the organiser than every other entry on this list — a phone call before travelling is worth it.
- Parent-and-child candle dipping (ages 3 to 7): Thursdays 19 and 26 November and 3 and 10 December 2026, 15:15–17:30.
- «Experimenting with wax» (from age 14): Fridays 20 and 27 November and 4 and 11 December 2026, 17:00–21:00.
Source: limmatstadt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- VFK-Räume im Untergeschoss des Zentrum Schluefweg, Schluefweg 10, 8302 Kloten
- Organiser
- Vereinigung Freizeit Kloten (VFK)
Kloten dips its candles in the basement of a sports and leisure centre — no marquee, no church cellar, but two course rooms beneath the indoor pool.
Good to know- For 2026 the organiser so far publishes only the outer dates «Sat 14.11.2026 10:00 – Wed 02.12.2026 18:00». Day-by-day opening hours for 2026 were not yet announced as of 08.09.2026 — so we do not copy last year's.
- Target audience according to the listing: «young and old».
Source: vfk-kloten.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 18:00
- Preparation
- Räbenverkauf: Sa 31. Oktober 2026, 9–16 Uhr.
- Organiser
- Arbeitsgruppe Räbechilbi, Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Richterswil
Regarded as the world's largest turnip-lantern parade: around 40 floats, lasting about an hour.
Good to know- From 3 p.m. there are market stalls, open-air concerts and attractions in the old village centre.
- Come by S2 or S8 – the route runs right beside Richterswil station, and there is no parking.
- The festival badge at CHF 10.– or the plaque at CHF 15.– is compulsory – wearing it is required, sold for cash only.
Source: vvrs.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Start
- 10:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Sunday to Thursday 10:00 to 20:00 · Friday and Saturday 10:00 to 21:00
- Meeting point
- Hechtplatz, 8001 Zürich
- Food and drink
- Wer eine dicke Kerze zieht, bleibt lange: der Veranstalter rechnet mit Stunden, nicht mit Minuten.
- Organiser
- Stiftung Zürcher Kerzenziehen / Zürcher Eingliederung
The oldest public candle-dipping event in Switzerland: first held in 1969, in 2026 for the 58th time — and it is no longer where a whole generation looks for it. The organiser writes that it «takes place on Hechtplatz again»; Bürkliplatz, with which the event was equated for decades, is no longer the venue.
Good to know- School classes and groups can book Monday to Friday between 8:00 and 10:00, that is before the public opening. The organiser says it is «largely booked out» as a result.
- Groups without a reserved morning slot can come from 10:00 — but then share the marquee with other visitors.
- The number 044 211 26 00 is only in service from 14 November; before that, call 044 388 49 03.
- The net proceeds historically went to social institutions; the seed capital of Zürcher Eingliederung came from this event.
Everything on Zurich · Hechtplatz→
Source: zuercherkerzenziehen.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:30
- Opening hours
- On all published days 14:00–17:30 (Wednesday to Sunday, with gaps — see the notes)
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindezentrum St. Franziskus, Kilchbergstrasse 1 (Eingang Albisstrasse), Foyer, 8038 Zürich
- Food and drink
- Getränke und Kuchen aus dem Bistro.
- Organiser
- GZ Wollishofen in Kooperation mit der Kirche St. Franziskus
In 2026 it moves for the first time into the foyer of the St. Franziskus parish centre — anyone with the old address in mind ends up in the wrong place.
Good to know- Closed days in the middle of the period: the published daily calendar lists 18 opening days between 14 November and 12 December. Closed are, among others, 27–29 November as well as 30 November to 1 December. On 28 and 29 November you can dip candles at the Wollishofen Christmas market instead.
- ⚠️ The community centre's running text says «from 21.11 to 13.12» — but the published daily calendar starts on 14 November and ends on 12 December. We follow the calendar and flag the contradiction.
- Besides paraffin in all colours, beeswax is available too.
- No KulturLegi discount on material costs.
Everything on Zurich · Wollishofen→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bonstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Langnau am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rafz
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:15
- Opening hours
- Tue 19:00–21:30 · Wed–Fri 14:00–17:15 and 19:00–21:30 · Sat 14:00–16:30 · Sun 12:00–15:30 (closed Mondays)
- Meeting point
- GZ Bachwiesen, Werkräume/Atelier, Bachwiesenstrasse 40, 8047 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Bachwiesen, Atelier
A published capacity limit: 50 people at a time — Winterthur-Veltheim states 30. Anyone coming on a Sunday afternoon may, the organiser says, have to wait.
Good to know- For safety reasons, children under 5 are not admitted to candle dipping; children under 7 only with an adult. For the youngest there is instead the «candle workshop for minis» on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 December 2026, 09:00–11:30.
- Prices: paraffin CHF 4.–/100 g, beeswax CHF 5.–/100 g.
- No registration needed; large groups and after-school clubs are asked to register. Bring your own carrier bags.
- ⚠️ Caveat about the final day: the community centre's date list is capped at 25 entries and visibly ends on 4 December 2026. Its running text names «Sun 13 Dec.» as the end — with a leftover year «25», while all the weekdays fit 2026. We list 13 December as the final day and recommend checking with the centre about the last week.
Everything on Zurich · Bachwiesen→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:30
- Opening hours
- Tuesday and Thursday 14:00–17:30 and 19:00–21:00 · Wednesday 14:00–17:00 · Friday 14:00–17:30 · Saturday and Sunday 14:00–16:30 · closed on Monday
- Meeting point
- GZ Loogarten, 8048 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Loogarten
Good to know- Priced by weight: coloured wax CHF 4.–, beeswax CHF 5.– per 100 g; a CHF 5.– deposit (cash only) is due when you collect the wick and is deducted at the till. No booking, room for 50 people — expect waits. Children under 4 are not admitted, under 7 only accompanied.
- Mind the spelling: the centre is called «Loogarten», not «Loorgarten» — with the wrong spelling you find neither the house nor the offering.
Everything on Zurich · Loogarten→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (since 1927, every year on the Tuesday after St Othmar's Day (16 November)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Assembly
- 18:15
- Start
- 18:45
- Meeting point
- Westausfahrt, westlich des SBB-Gebäudes
- Food and drink
- Wurst und Brot am Schluss des Umzugs
- Organiser
- Verkehrsverein Flawil
One of the largest Räbeliechtli parades in Switzerland – and one of the very few held on a Tuesday.
Good to know- Route: Oberdorfstrasse and Schulstrasse, western exit, Krankenhaus-, Oberdorf-, Enzenbühl-, Wiler-, Bahnhof-, Oberdorf- and Schulstrasse.
- The local tourist association asks residents to switch off shop-window and advertising lighting.
Source: verkehrsverein-flawil.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:00
- Opening hours
- Wed 18.11 14:00–17:00 · Sat 21.11 10:00–17:00 · Sun 22.11 10:00–17:00 · Wed 25.11 14:00–17:00 · Sat 28.11 10:00–17:00 · Sun 29.11 10:00–17:00 · Wed 02.12 14:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Tommasini, 5600 Lenzburg
- Food and drink
- Das Kafi Tomm bietet an allen öffentlichen Kerzenzieh-Terminen Getränke, Kuchen, Snacks oder Suppe.
- Organiser
- Elternverein Lenzburg
The only place in the survey where adults can cast wax lanterns in the evening instead of dipping candles — in addition to the classic offering.
Good to know- Public opening only on Wednesday afternoons and at weekends — seven published dates.
- The adult evenings (Thursday/Friday, wax-lantern casting and candle dipping) are «in the calendar» according to the organiser and carry no dates on the offering page. We therefore list only the published public afternoons.
- Besides school classes, clubs, teams and groups can also book the offering.
Source: elternverein-lenzburg.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 12:00–18:30
- Opening hours
- Monday–Friday 12:00–18:30 · Saturday and Sunday 10:00–18:30 · on Sunday 20 December closing already at 17:00
- Meeting point
- Sempacherplatz (Vögeligärtli), 6003 Luzern
- Food and drink
- Der Verein rechnet mit mindestens zwei Stunden pro Besuch; angefangene Kerzen lassen sich im Pavillon kostenlos zwischenlagern und an einem anderen Tag fertigziehen.
- Organiser
- Verein Luzerner Kerzenziehen
The largest quantity of wax in the survey: over five weeks, more than 1,500 kg of beeswax is turned into candles in three linked containers at 8 wax pots. Running since 1978.
Good to know- Only beeswax is dipped here — no coloured paraffin.
- The proceeds go to projects for people with disabilities, to holiday camps, shared housing and mobility.
- Registration is required for groups of 8 or more; opening hours can then be adjusted.
Everything on Lucerne · Vögeligärtli→
Source: luzernerkerzenziehen.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Life Hall, Schweizersbildstrasse 41, 8207 Schaffhausen
- Organiser
- Kerzenziehen Schaffhausen (Royal Rangers Schaffhausen und Life Church Schaffhausen)
Dipping is not all that happens here: there are torches and fire pots outdoors, gel candles in a glass, bowls made from recycled wax, beeswax wraps and amaryllis dipped in wax. It is run jointly by the Royal Rangers and Life Church, not by a parish.
Good to know- For 2026 the confirmed period is 18 to 29 November. The opening hours and price list on the same site still carried the 2025 figures as of 11 September 2026 — we do not carry them forward.
- Published structure of the 2025 edition, no guarantee for 2026: Wednesday and Friday afternoon 14:00-18:00, Friday evening from age 16 19:00-22:30, Saturday and Sunday 10:00-18:00. On Friday evening a raclette meal was additionally offered in 2025.
Source: kerzenziehensh.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Market: Mon–Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Teuschelweiherplatz, Winterthur
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Cheminée, Slalom-Bar, Kinderhütte
- Organiser
- Winterthurer Wintermarkt
It starts on 18 November, making it the earliest Christmas market on this list – more than two weeks before the first Sunday of Advent.
Good to know- More than 50 festively decorated huts.
Everything on Winterthur · Teuschelweiherplatz→
Source: winterthurerwintermarkt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:30
- Opening hours
- Wed and Fri 14:00–17:30 · Thu 16:00–19:00 · Sat and Sun 13:00–17:00 · additionally Fri 27.11 19:00–21:00 (adults)
- Meeting point
- Lettenkirche, Imfeldstrasse 51, 8037 Zürich
- Food and drink
- Selbstbedienungskafi mit Getränken und Knabbereien.
- Organiser
- GZ Schindlergut in Kooperation mit der reformierten Kirche Kirchenkreis 6
On Friday 27 November from 19:00 to 21:00, adults dip candles with a glass of sparkling wine and live music — the only candle-dipping evening in the survey with a musical programme.
Good to know- Suitable for children from age 4 — the lowest published age limit in the Zurich survey.
- Price: by weight, at least CHF 4.00 per candle.
- No registration needed (applies to the public dipping only); the remaining time slots are reserved for school classes.
- The candle dipping does not take place in the community centre itself, but in the Lettenkirche.
Everything on Zurich · Letten→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 16:00
- Opening hours
- Market: Mon–Sat 11:00–22:00, Sun 11:00–20:00 · Food and drink: Mon–Sat 11:00–24:00, Sun 11:00–22:00 · 24 December until 16:00 · 25 December closed · Opening Thu 19 November at 16:00
- Meeting point
- Kleine Schanze, Bern
- Organiser
- Berner Sternenmarkt
Entirely cashless: only cards and Twint are accepted. And it runs until 27 December – with exactly one rest day in between, 25 December.
Good to know- Around 80 huts with changing offerings; a children's chalet on the square.
- Closed on 25 December – the market pauses for exactly one day and reopens on the 26th.
- There is no parking around Taubenstrasse and Rainmattstrasse; the organiser expressly asks visitors to come by public transport.
Everything on Bern · Kleine Schanze→
Source: bernersternenmarkt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Quai am Genfersee, Genf
- Organiser
- Noël au Quai
In good weather the chalets stay open until 23:00 – the only market on the list whose closing time explicitly depends on the weather.
Good to know- Right on the shore of Lake Geneva, with Christmas lights along the promenade and a children's yurt.
Source: noel-au-quai.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Piazza Grande, 6600 Locarno
- Organiser
- enjoy / Ascona-Locarno Turismo
Here the Christmas market is part of a larger winter event: Winterland includes an ice rink, concerts and food on the Piazza Grande — and now extends between Locarno and Ascona.
Good to know- Runs until 6 January 2027 and therefore past New Year.
Source: ascona-locarno.com · checked on 11 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Market: Mon–Wed 11:30–21:00, Thu–Sat 11:30–22:00, Sun 11:00–20:00 · Food and drink: Mon–Fri 17:00–23:00, Sat/Sun 11:30–23:00 · Immaculate Conception: 7.12 11:30–22:00, 8.12 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Alpenquai, Zug
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Platz für bis zu 120 Personen
- Organiser
- Zuger Weihnachtsmarkt
The only market on the list that is only half open from Monday to Friday between 11:30 and 17:00 – come at midday and you see half the site.
Good to know- More than 60 Christmas huts directly on the shore of Lake Zug.
- Zug is one of the few places with its own opening hours for the Immaculate Conception (8 December) – a public holiday in the canton of Zug.
Everything on Zug · Alpenquai→
Source: zugerweihnachtsmarkt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Market (non-food): Sun–Wed 11:00–21:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Food and takeaway: Sun–Wed 11:00–22:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–23:00 · Bars and mulled-wine stands: Thu–Sat until 23:30 at the latest · Opening on 19 November from 11:00 · Christmas Eve, 24 December, 11:00–16:00
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofshalle, Hauptbahnhof Zürich
- Organiser
- Polarzauber
A market entirely inside a hall: the station roof covers the stalls, so there is no weather caveat – rain changes nothing here.
Good to know- Free entry.
- It runs through Christmas Eve – unlike most on this list, which already close on 23 December.
- Anyone searching for «Christkindlimarkt Zürich HB» is searching for a name that no longer exists there: the old domain christkindlimarkt.ch now 301-redirects to a third-party event platform. The station hall is run as Polarzauber.
Everything on Zurich · Hauptbahnhof→
Source: polarzauber.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Sechseläutenplatz, Zürich
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Reservation, auch für Gruppen
- Organiser
- Bellevue Noël
The market on Bellevue has a new name in 2026: after ten years, Schöne Bescherung AG's «Wienachtsdorf» has left the square, which is now run as Bellevue Noël.
Good to know- Anyone still searching for «Wienachtsdorf Zürich» lands on the predecessor's farewell page – the dates there no longer apply.
Everything on Zurich · Sechseläutenplatz / Bellevue→
Source: bellevuenoel.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Mon–Thu 16:00–21:00 · Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 13:00–22:00 · Sun 13:00–21:00
- Meeting point
- Werdmühleplatz, Zürich
- Food and drink
- Käsefondue im Holzchalet, Reservation möglich
- Organiser
- The Singing Christmas Tree
The only market on the list whose main attraction is a timetable: on the tree-shaped scaffold, a different choir sings every day – on weekdays at 17:30 and 18:30, at weekends also at 14:30 and 15:30.
Good to know- Christmas Party every Saturday from 19:30 to 21:00.
Everything on Zurich · Werdmühleplatz→
Source: singingchristmastree.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–21:00
- Opening hours
- Monday to Thursday 11:00–21:00 · Friday and Saturday 11:00–22:00 · Sunday 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Niederdorfstrasse · Hirschenplatz · Rosenhof
- Destination
- Grossmünster
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Dörfli im Niederdorf
The oldest Christmas market in the city of Zurich – and the only Zurich market that does not occupy a single square, but runs as a chain of stalls from Niederdorfstrasse via Hirschenplatz to the Grossmünster.
Good to know- In the Rosenhof, children skate for free on a small ice rink; skates can be hired on site for a fee.
Everything on Zurich · Niederdorf→
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-doerfli.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 10:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Mon–Fri 10:00–20:00 · Sat/Sun 10:00–18:00 · doors open on Friday 20 November at 14:00 · final day Saturday 5 December until 18:00
- Meeting point
- Jurte auf dem Bahnhofplatz Baden, 5400 Baden
- Organiser
- Verein Kerzenziehen Baden
Dipping takes place in a yurt on the station square — and over more than 50 years the association has raised over two million francs for projects for people with disabilities, including CHF 700,000 for the new zeka centre in Baden-Dättwil.
Good to know- Dipping is done exclusively with beeswax.
- No prior knowledge needed, no registration for individual visitors — «just drop by spontaneously».
- Finished hand-dipped beeswax candles can also be bought at the stand.
- The association works entirely on a voluntary basis; donations are possible on site or via TWINT.
Everything on Baden · Bahnhofplatz→
Source: kerzenziehen-baden.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindehaus Marien, Untergeschoss, Wylerstrasse 26, 3014 Bern
- Organiser
- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Bern-Nord und Katholische Pfarrei St. Marien
The lowest published wax price in the whole survey: CHF 3.– per 100 grams — level with the Stephanus parish house in Basel, which charges the same for coloured stearin.
Good to know- As of 08.09.2026 the organiser publishes the period and the price, but not yet any opening hours («a flyer with opening hours and further details will follow»).
- Mind the address: the event is not held in the Markuskirche, but in the Marien parish house at Wylerstrasse 26.
Everything on Bern · Wylerquartier→
Source: kirchen-nordquartier-bern.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Mehrere Plätze in der Innenstadt von Lausanne
- Organiser
- Bô Noël Lausanne
According to the organiser, the 11th edition drew more than 450,000 visitors – one of the country's best-attended Christmas markets, spread across 60 chalets.
Good to know- The market is spread across several squares in the city centre; there is no single location.
Source: bo-noel.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 17:00
- Opening hours
- Starts Friday 20 November at 17:00 · Ends Wednesday 23 December at 22:00
- Meeting point
- Inseli-Park, Luzern
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet, Aussen-Pavillons, Bars und Foodtrucks
- Organiser
- RUDOLFS Weihnacht
The exhibitors change every week – go twice and you see two different ranges.
Good to know- More than 50 huts, bars and food trucks; at weekends there is an additional mini-market for the region's smallest producers.
- Together with the Franziskanerplatz market, Lucerne thus covers the whole of Advent – but the two only overlap from 3 December.
Everything on Lucerne · Inseli-Park→
Source: rudolfs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Quais de Montreux, 200 Meter ab Bahnhof Montreux
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël Montreux SA / Fondation Riviera Noël
The only market on the list with a flying Santa: the Père Noël Volant crosses the sky above Montreux, and his workshop sits on the summit of the Rochers-de-Naye.
Good to know- Right on Lake Geneva, 200 metres from the station.
- The same organiser family runs the offshoots Vevey Riviera Noël and Villeneuve Riviera Noël.
Source: montreuxnoel.com · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Village de Noël, Place Scanavin (Altstadt Vevey)
- Organiser
- Vevey Riviera Noël (Riviera Noël)
In 2026 the traditional market on the Place du Marché takes a break – the square is being rebuilt. Vevey Riviera Noël still runs for 35 days: its heart is the Village de Noël on the Place Scanavin in the old town.
Good to know- Part of the same organiser family as Montreux Noël; the organiser gives no 2026 opening hours on its home page, so no time appears here.
Source: veveyrivieranoel.com · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- Saturday to Monday 14:00–18:00 · Tuesday 14:00–19:00 · Wednesday 14:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Thomaskirche Liebefeld, grosser Saal, Buchenweg 21, 3097 Liebefeld
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Köniz, Kirchenkreis Mitte
Five days of beeswax in the large hall of the Thomaskirche, CHF 3.50 per 100 grams — and the proceeds are donated.
Good to know- On Sunday 22 November there is a craft activity for children in the workshop (14:00–15:00 and 15:30–17:00); on Wednesday 25 November at 16:00 a Christmas story in the children's corner.
Everything on Köniz · Liebefeld→
Source: kg-koeniz.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 12:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- Sat/Sun 12:00–18:00 · Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 16:00–18:00 · Wed 13:30–18:00 (published daily calendar, 16 opening days)
- Meeting point
- GZ Oerlikon, Aktionsraum EG
- Organiser
- GZ Oerlikon in Kooperation mit der Reformierten Kirche Zürich Kirchenkreis zwölf und der Katholischen Kirchgemeinde Herz-Jesu
A coloured children's candle costs «around 5 francs» here for an hour of dipping — the community centre charges by time, not by weight.
Good to know- Monday to Friday 08:00–12:00 as well as Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 14:00–15:30 are reserved for school classes and, according to the organiser, already fully booked.
- The registration list for school classes goes online on Tuesday 20 October at 12:30.
- Groups are asked to register in advance.
Everything on Zurich · Oerlikon→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bonstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Buchs ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dietikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Eglisau
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Embrach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Freienstein-Teufen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Langnau am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Lufingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Otelfingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rorbas
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Seegräben
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Stäfa
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Steinmaur
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wallisellen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Gemeindehaus Stephanus, Furkastrasse 12, 4055 Basel
- Organiser
- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Basel West
The lowest published price for coloured wax: stearin candles at CHF 3.– per 100 grams — the same floor as the Marien parish house in Bern.
Good to know- Prices: coloured stearin candles CHF 3.–/100 g, beeswax candles CHF 4.50/100 g.
- The parish publishes the four days but no times. School classes and groups by prior registration with Brigitt Küng, tel. 061 301 65 45.
Everything on Basel · Gemeindehaus Stephanus→
Source: erk-bs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The exact daily hours are published by the organiser via poster and agenda; they were not yet fixed as of 11 September 2026.
- Meeting point
- Jugendhaus Chur, Gäuggelistrasse 10, 7001 Chur
- Organiser
- Kinder- und Jugendarbeit Chur
The guidance here does not come from adults but from young people of Chur: for three weeks they stand at the wax pots as experts and answer questions. The candle dipping is therefore also what it produces — a youth-work project open to the public.
Good to know- For school and kindergarten classes there are slots outside the public hours. Registration runs through an online form and opens, according to the organiser, on 1 October 2026 at 15:00.
- For clubs, companies or private groups the organiser expressly offers no exclusive slots — they are welcome during regular opening hours.
Source: jugendarbeitchur.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Opening hours
- Tue 24.11 14:00 · Wed 25.11 14:00 · Thu 26.11 14:00 · Fri 27.11 14:00 · Sat 28.11 11:00 · Sun 29.11 11:00 — only the start is published, not the closing time.
- Meeting point
- Reformierte Stadtkirche Solothurn, Westringstrasse 14, 4500 Solothurn
- Organiser
- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Solothurn
Six days in a row, and the start time shifts with the weekend: Tuesday to Friday it begins at 14:00, Saturday and Sunday already at 11:00. Beeswax is used, and in 2026 the event is back inside the church itself.
Good to know- Only the start of each day is published, not a closing time — if you come late, call ahead.
- Contact, per the organiser, by text message only: 079 713 58 78.
Source: reformiert-solothurn.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Start
- 10:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Dorfplatz, verkehrsfreier Dorfkern Sarnen
- Organiser
- Sarner Fachgeschäfte (SFG)
Sarnen does not tie its market to a date but to the calendar: the Wednesday before the first Sunday of Advent, every year. It is therefore over before Advent even starts – and it is a weekday market, not a weekend event.
Good to know- The Sarnen retailers confirm 25 November 2026, «the Wednesday before the first Sunday of Advent», 10:00 to 20:00, with over 100 stalls; Kolping Sarnen presents the nativity scene in front of the village chapel.
Everything on Sarnen · Dorfplatz→
Source: sarner-fachgeschaefte.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:30
- Opening hours
- daily 11:00–20:30 · on 23.12.2026 only until 20:00
- Meeting point
- Barfüsserplatz, 4051 Basel
- Organiser
- Kanton Basel-Stadt, Aussenbeziehungen und Standortmarketing
The event with the latest final day before Christmas: on 23 December, this is the only place in the entire survey where you can still dip a candle — the Uetliberg does run longer, but only at weekends. It is possible because the dipping here hangs on a Christmas market rather than on a volunteer team.
Good to know- The candle dipping is an offering within the Christmas market; what is published are the market hours, not separate dipping times or prices.
- Basel's Christmas market was voted Europe's best Christmas market by «European Best Destinations» in 2021 and awarded «Excellent European Christmas Market» in 2026.
Everything on Basel · Barfüsserplatz→
Source: bs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 13:30–19:00
- Opening hours
- Mon–Fri 13:30–19:00 · Sat/Sun 11:00–19:00 (lumberjack bar daily 11:00–20:30)
- Meeting point
- Münsterplatz, 4051 Basel
- Organiser
- Verein Robi-Spiel-Aktionen
Candle dipping is only one of several craft stations here: in the «Märchenwald» there is also tin casting, gingerbread decorating and blacksmithing, and the puppet theatre plays a Christmas story.
Good to know- What is published are the Märchenwald's opening hours, not separate candle-dipping times or prices.
- The Märchenwald closes one day before the Christmas market on Barfüsserplatz.
Everything on Basel · Münsterplatz→
Source: bs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:30
- Opening hours
- Daily 11:00–20:30 · on 23.12.2026 only until 20:00
- Meeting point
- Barfüsserplatz und rund um die Barfüsserkirche, Basel
- Organiser
- Kanton Basel-Stadt
Basel publishes its market hours officially through the canton – including the differing closing time on the final day, which is two hours apart depending on the square.
Good to know- On Barfüsserplatz you can also dip candles.
- On Claraplatz, a purely culinary offering complements the market; the canton publishes no separate dates for it.
- Voted Europe's best Christmas market by the «European Best Destinations» ranking in 2021, and awarded «Excellent European Christmas Market» in 2026.
Everything on Basel · Barfüsserplatz→
Source: bs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:30
- Opening hours
- Daily 11:00–20:30 · on 23.12.2026 only until 18:00
- Meeting point
- Münsterplatz, vor dem Basler Münster
- Organiser
- Kanton Basel-Stadt
The «Märchenwald» run by Robi-Spiel-Aktionen makes this square the most family-friendly part of any market in Switzerland: tin casting, candle dipping, gingerbread decorating, blacksmithing and a puppet theatre.
Good to know- The Märliwald runs from 26.11 to 22.12.2026 – one day shorter than the market itself – Mon–Fri 13:30–19:00, Sat/Sun 11:00–19:00, lumberjack bar daily 11:00–20:30.
- Mind the final day: Münsterplatz closes on 23.12 already at 18:00, Barfüsserplatz only at 20:00.
Everything on Basel · Münsterplatz→
Source: bs.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Piazza della Riforma, 6900 Lugano
- Organiser
- Città di Lugano, Divisione Eventi e Congressi (Lugano Eventi)
The market does not occupy a single square: it spreads across Piazza della Riforma and the adjoining old-town lanes as far as Via Nassa.
Source: luganoeventi.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Gallusplatz, St. Gallen
- Organiser
- Sternenstadt St.Gallen
More than 600 stars hang in a specially choreographed light installation above the old town – the only market on the list whose lighting is choreographed on purpose and gets a dated opening; the market below it is the encore.
Good to know- Sternissage (opening of the light choreography): Thursday, 26 November 2026, 18:30–19:30, Marktgasse.
- The decorated Christmas tree stands on Klosterplatz in the UNESCO World Heritage abbey precinct.
Everything on St. Gallen · Gallusplatz→
Source: sternenstadt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Daily from 11:00 until late evening; the food stands stay open longer
- Meeting point
- Neumarkt, Winterthurer Altstadt
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Winterthur
Held for the 29th time in 2026 and open all seven days of the week – which is not a given: in Rapperswil-Jona, five days fall out in the middle of the period.
Everything on Winterthur · Neumarkt→
Source: weihnachtinwinterthur.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- Monday–Thursday 11:00–18:00 · Friday 11:00–21:00 · Saturday/Sunday 10:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Markthalle Aarau, Färbergässli, 5000 Aarau
- Organiser
- insieme Aarau-Lenzburg
The 50th edition. Half a century carried by a single association — insieme Aarau-Lenzburg funds its holiday and leisure programme for people with a cognitive disability from it.
Good to know- Beeswax price per 100 g: school classes CHF 4.00, other visitors CHF 4.50.
- ⚠️ The opening line on the organiser's site still carries a date from last year. The published 2026 period (27.11–13.12) and the recurring weekday hours are unaffected; for the opening Friday it is worth checking.
- The organiser recommends coming on foot, by PubliBike or by public transport; by car, the Kasino, City-Märt or Kaserne car parks.
Source: insieme-aarau-lenzburg.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 10:00–17:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 15:15–21:00 · Saturday 10:00–17:00 · Sunday 10:45–17:00
- Meeting point
- Calvinhaus, Allschwil
- Food and drink
- Kleines Angebot an Kaffee, Tee und Kuchen.
- Organiser
- Freiwillige der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchgemeinde Allschwil-Schönenbuch
For the impatient: alongside classic dipping, blanks are ready that only need colouring.
Good to know- The parish lists the three days without a year («Freitag 27 November · Samstag 28 November · Sonntag 29 November»). 27 November is a Friday only in 2026, and the weekend is exactly the «weekend of the first Sunday of Advent» it publishes as its rule — hence the date is listed as confirmed.
- Coloured candles and beeswax candles can be dipped; the offering is aimed at school classes and the general public.
Source: refallschwil.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Waisenhausplatz, Bern
- Organiser
- Stadt Bern
The Christmas market closes on 24 December – the square does not: the same Waisenhausplatz then hosts the year-end market from 28 to 31 December 2026 and the New Year market from 4 to 9 January 2027. No other place on this list opens a newly named market after Christmas.
Good to know- Range of goods: mainly ordinary market wares – for handcrafted work, Bern's address is the Münsterplatz.
- As of 8 September, the operator had not yet published detailed opening hours for 2026; its website still showed the 2025 times.
Everything on Bern · Waisenhausplatz→
Source: bern.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Rathausbögen, Altstadt Bülach
- Organiser
- Stadt Bülach / Weihnachtsmarkt Bülach
Bülach no longer has a standalone candle dipping, but one under the town hall arcades — embedded in the Christmas market and therefore tied to its three days.
Good to know- Only the market dates are published (27–29 November 2026), together with the sentence «Under the town hall arcades you can dip candles». Separate dipping times, prices or an organiser of the dipping were not announced as of 08.09.2026.
Source: buelach.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofstrasse, Chur
- Organiser
- IG Christkindlimarkt Chur
Two markets, two associations, the same opening day – and still a pitfall: one is over after two days, the other runs until 23 December.
Everything on Chur · Bahnhofstrasse→
Source: christkindlimarkt.info · checked on 8 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Friday 27.11.2026 14:00–21:00 · Saturday 28.11.2026 11:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Churer Altstadt
- Organiser
- Verein Churer Weihnachtsmarkt
Two days, no more – anyone who misses that weekend has to fall back on the Christkindlimarkt on Bahnhofstrasse, which runs until 23 December.
Everything on Chur · Altstadt→
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-chur.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 17:00
- Opening hours
- Opening Friday 27 November from 17:00 · thereafter 11:00–19:30, on some days until 21:00
- Meeting point
- Klosterplatz Einsiedeln
- Organiser
- Einsiedler Weihnachtsmarkt
The only organiser on this list who publishes not just 2026 but through to 2028: 26 November to 5 December 2027 and 1 to 10 December 2028 are already fixed.
Good to know- It runs for just ten days – the market is over on 6 December, while elsewhere the season is only getting going.
Source: einsiedler-weihnacht.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Opening hours
- Friday 14:00–20:00, Saturday 10:00–20:00, Sunday 10:00–18:00 · on four weekends: 27–29 November, 4–6, 11–13 and 18–20 December · closed in between
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Gruyères, Rue du Bourg
- Organiser
- Office du Tourisme de Gruyères
The market runs along a car-free medieval lane between the town gate and the castle – over 40 craftspeople exhibit, and the hours follow the daylight: Fridays only from the afternoon, Sundays closing earlier.
Good to know- The dates come from the Fribourg tourism organisation. As of 14 September the organiser itself had not yet published a 2026 calendar on noel-gruyeres.ch – it read "Pas d'événements pour le moment".
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 17:00
- Meeting point
- Seeufer und Dorfzentrum Brunnen
- Organiser
- Erlebnisregion Mythen c/o Brunnen Schwyz Marketing AG
Around 60 market huts right on Lake Lucerne, opening on the Friday evening of the first Advent weekend – with a visit from Samichlaus.
Good to know- The opening evening is confirmed (Friday 27.11.2026, 17:00–22:00); the organiser announces further market days, the programme will be published in autumn.
Source: schwyz-tourismus.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindehaus, Bahnhofstrasse 29, 6460 Altdorf
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-Reformierte Landeskirche Uri
The only date in this survey that was not on an events page but in the room-booking calendar behind it: «Kerzenziehen 2026», Saturday 28 November, hall, foyer and kitchen at once. The same system already carries the 2027 reservation — an event that blocks a room two years ahead.
Good to know- This is how precise the evidence is, and how far it reaches: the cantonal church's events and room-booking calendar — the same data service ref-uri.ch itself reads — lists «Kerzenziehen 2026» for Saturday 28 November 2026 from 08:00 for the hall, foyer and kitchen at Bahnhofstrasse 29. On the rendered agenda page the entry was not yet visible as of 12 September 2026. Visitor opening hours and prices are not published; 08:00 is the start of the room booking, not a door opening. Ask the parish office before travelling (041 870 86 80).
- Published structure of an earlier edition, no guarantee for 2026: the Altdorf candle dipping ran in 2019 over six days in the youth room of the same building — set-up on Friday morning, then Saturday and Monday to Thursday with afternoon openings and two evenings until 21:00. For 2026 the calendar books exactly one day.
Source: ref-uri.ch · checked on 12 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Meeting point
- Kirch- und Rössligasse, Andermatt
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Andermatt
One market day in the Urseren valley, in the Kirchgasse and Rössligasse of the village centre – on the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent.
Source: andermatt-sedrun-disentis.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 10:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Arbon
- Organiser
- Stadt Arbon
A single Saturday, nine hours, right on Lake Constance – and by 14 September the town already listed all sales and catering stalls as fully booked, two and a half months ahead.
Source: arbon.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 12:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Domplatz Arlesheim
- Organiser
- Arleser Märt-Team (AGIV)
On the square in front of Arlesheim Cathedral – and the stalls are run only by private sellers and members of the local trade association.
Source: arlesheim.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Marktgasse, Baar
- Organiser
- Einwohnergemeinde Baar
Since 1981, and the municipality itself is the organiser. The date hangs on the village fair: the market takes place two weeks after the Baar Chilbi.
Source: baar.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Opening hours
- Open daily · Christmas Eve 24.12.2026 only 10:00–16:00 · Märit-Kulturbeiz Dreierlei daily 10:00–22:00
- Meeting point
- Münsterplatz, direkt vor dem Berner Münster
- Organiser
- Verein Berner Münster Weihnachtsmarkt
The only market on the list with an admission rule instead of a list of goods: whoever exhibits here must produce in their own workshop and make one-off pieces – for almost 40 years now.
Good to know- A 10- to 15-minute walk from Bern station, or by tram/bus to Zytglogge and through Münstergasse.
- In the Mix-Hüsli, young craftspeople each exhibit for one week – so the range changes during the market period.
Everything on Bern · Münsterplatz→
Source: bernerweihnachtsmarkt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 10:30–18:30
- Meeting point
- Arkadenplatz, 7270 Davos Platz
- Organiser
- Gemeinde Davos
A single day, traditionally the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent: 10:30 to 18:30 on the Arkadenplatz in Davos Platz, with regional products.
Source: gemeindedavos.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00–19:00
- Organiser
- Chlausvereinigung Niederurnen (Einzug) · Verkehrsverein Niederurnen (Markt)
Here Samichlaus arrives as early as the Saturday before the first Sunday of Advent — a day ahead of the big Zurich procession.
Good to know- The market runs from 2 to 7 pm on Hirschenplatz, Allmeindstrasse and Grüner-Baum-Platz, framed every year by the Samichlaus procession. The procession time is not published.
Source: vvniederurnen.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Saturday 11:00–22:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Dorfkern Hergiswil am See
- Organiser
- OK Dorf-Advent Hergiswil
More than 100 exhibitors on the first weekend of Advent, the Samichlaus procession sets off at 6.30 pm on Sunday – and the Glasi Hergiswil glassworks is open on both market days.
Good to know- Glasi Hergiswil according to the organiser: Saturday 9:00–19:00, Sunday 10:00–17:00.
Source: dorf-advent.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 15:00
- Opening hours
- Saturday 15:00–20:00 (opening evening, SIG site), Sunday 11:00–17:00 (Advent market and Sunday shopping)
- Meeting point
- SIG-Areal und Ortszentrum Neuhausen am Rheinfall
- Organiser
- Ortsmarketing Neuhausen am Rheinfall
Two parts, two places: on Saturday evening Advent is rung in on the SIG site, on Sunday the market follows – together with Sunday shopping in the town's shops.
Source: ortsmarketing-nh.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Innenstadt Olten
- Organiser
- Kein Ding GmbH
A little over three weeks of Christmas market in the heart of Olten, in 2026 for the sixth time – the organiser combines market and Advent programme on one square.
Source: adventsdorf.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 12:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- Monday to Friday 12:00–18:00 · Saturday and Sunday 11:00–17:00 · schools from middle level Monday to Friday 09:00–12:00 by booking
- Meeting point
- Gallusstrasse 16, 9000 St. Gallen
- Organiser
- Katholisches Dom Zentrum mit der Jugendarbeit und der reformierten Cityseelsorge
After 35 years, Cevi St. Gallen has handed over the candle-dipping marquee: it is now run by the Catholic Dom Zentrum together with the youth ministry and the Reformed city chaplaincy — and it no longer stands by the station, but on Gallusstrasse as part of the Sternenmarkt.
Good to know- The 2026 edition is now published by the Catholic Church of St. Gallen itself; the old Cevi page still shows the 2025 dates. Groups by booking only.
- Candles are dipped in 60 % beeswax, charged at CHF 5.– per 100 g. Groups by booking only; schools from middle level Monday to Friday 09:00–12:00.
- Anyone searching for the «Cevi candle dipping by the station» is searching for an event that no longer exists under that organisation or in that place.
Everything on St. Gallen · Gallusstrasse→
Source: kathsg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Adliswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bachenbülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 10:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Sun 29.11 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:00) · Mon 30.11 to Sat 05.12 10:00–20:00 (last entry 19:00) · Sun 06.12 10:00–15:00 (last entry 14:00)
- Meeting point
- Unterer Waisenhausplatz, 3011 Bern
- Organiser
- Verein «Kerzenziehen für Jung und Alt, Bern»
The only heated candle-dipping marquee in the survey that staggers its stations by body height: 8 stations at different heights so children and adults can dip side by side. First held in 1991.
Good to know- Mind the last entry: it is one hour before closing, and on the final Sunday as early as 14:00. Anyone going by the closing time instead of the last entry arrives too late.
- Prices: beeswax CHF 4.20/100 g, coloured wax CHF 4.00/100 g.
- Time needed according to the organiser: beeswax candle thickness 1 (2 cm) one hour, thickness 2 (5 cm) 2 to 3 hours. Coloured wax is much faster (thickness 1: 30 minutes).
- With beeswax you can dip up to 8 candles at once, with coloured wax only one.
- Schools and groups only Mon–Fri in the morning (09:00–10:30 or 10:30–12:00), 90 minutes maximum, registration mandatory up to two weeks before the start. Registered groups receive a 10% discount.
Everything on Bern · Waisenhausplatz→
Source: kerzenziehen.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Good to know- The canton designates four dates — but an individual shop may only open on two of them (Art. 11 para. 2 HGG). Which two is the shop's own decision.
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dielsdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dietikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dietlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Kursaal Engelberg
- Organiser
- Saisonmarkt Engelberg
A market under a roof: the Chlausmarkt takes place in the Kursaal – on the first Sunday of Advent, whatever the weather.
Source: markt-engelberg.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Every year on the first Sunday of Advent (St. Nikolaus-Aktion Näfels)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Assembly
- Niederberg
- Start
- 18:00
- Destination
- Dorf-Turnhallenplatz
- Organiser
- St. Nikolaus-Aktion Näfels
The schoolchildren fetch him: at 6 pm they greet Samichlaus on the Niederberg with songs, around 7 pm he arrives on the gym square and gives his address.
Good to know- The organiser states the rule, not the 2026 date. 29 November 2026 is calculated from it and expressly unconfirmed.
- After the welcome, Samichlaus rides through the village in a decorated carriage, accompanied by countless bell ringers and around 350 children with home-made lanterns.
- St Nicholas market from 4 pm on the village school square, with around 15 stalls, sausages and raclette bread; the tower brass players perform. Ends around 8 pm.
Everything on Glarus Nord · Näfels→
Source: nikolaus-naefels.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Every year on the first Sunday of Advent, 16:00–20:00 (St. Nikolaus-Aktion Näfels)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Start
- 16:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Dorf-Schulhausplatz Näfels
- Organiser
- St. Nikolaus-Aktion Näfels
Market and Samichlaus procession in one: at 6 pm the schoolchildren fetch Samichlaus from the Niederberg, around 7 pm he arrives on the gym square with bell ringers and lantern children.
Good to know- The organiser states the rule, not the 2026 date. 29 November 2026 is calculated from it and expressly unconfirmed.
Source: nikolaus-naefels.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 18:30
- Organiser
- Verein Dorf-Advent Hergiswil
The Samichlaus procession closes the village Advent market on the first Sunday of Advent — browse the stalls by day and you are right in the custom at 6.30 pm.
Source: dorf-advent.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Horgen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Kloten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Meilen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Neftenbach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Otelfingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Regensdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Schlieren
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Seuzach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Turbenthal
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Uitikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wallisellen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wetzikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Assembly
- Werdmühleplatz
- Start
- 17:00
- Meeting point
- Werdmühleplatz · Bahnhofstrasse
- Destination
- Bürkliplatz
- Organiser
- St. Nikolaus Gesellschaft Zürich
The Märlitram fairy-tale tram leads, decorated floats follow — and children aged five and up can sign up to walk as little angels or dwarves.
Good to know- Route: from Werdmühleplatz along the illuminated Bahnhofstrasse to Bürkliplatz.
- Along the way, the Samichlaus figures and Schmutzlis hand small gifts to children at the roadside.
- At Bürkliplatz, Samichlaus opens the season with a short ceremony, accompanied by two brass bands.
- Walking as a little angel or dwarf: from age 5, register by 6 November on the society's website; costume fitting on 18 November (1–4.30 pm) and children's meeting time on parade day at 2.30 pm, both at the Lochergut civil defence facility. The children pull a float together.
Everything on Zurich · Bahnhofstrasse→
Source: samichlaus-zuerich.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Spritzenhaus Sarnen, Dorfplatz, 6060 Sarnen
- Organiser
- Freizeitzentrum Obwalden
Dipping takes place in the old fire-engine house on the village square. On the same page the organiser lists every edition since 2017 without a gap — anyone wanting to know whether an event really happens every year reads it off year by year instead of taking it on trust.
Good to know- As of 05.10.2026 the leisure centre announces «Kerzenziehen im Spritzenhaus Sarnen, 1. – 13. Dezember 2026». Daily opening hours are not yet published — we will add them once they are, and invent none.
- Published structure without a year: children, young people, adults, clubs, school classes and companies are welcome; individuals and families drop in, groups register in advance (041 662 08 44 or via the contact form on fzo.ch).
Source: fzo.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Dorfkern Appenzell
- Organiser
- Appenzellerland Tourismus AI
Appenzell carries two events in the same week, and they are different things: the Chlöösler is a Wednesday for shopping, the Christkindlimarkt three days later a weekend on the Postplatz. For the Chlöösler the tourism office expressly names Christmas shopping as the purpose – in the Innerrhoden dialect, buying presents is called «chläusele».
Good to know- As of 06.10.2026 the source states the date expressly: «Chlösler: 2. December 2026» – it matches the rule. Times are not published.
Source: appenzell.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Start
- 12:00
- Opening hours
- Wednesday to Friday 12:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Place du Marché, 1630 Bulle
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël Bulle
Around a hundred chalets on a single square, five days running – and it starts on a Wednesday, ahead of the weekend when most other Fribourg markets first open.
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Solothurn
- Organiser
- Chlausemäret Solothurn
A market that pays no heed to the weekend: it always falls on the first Wednesday and Thursday in December – plan for the weekend and you miss it every time.
Good to know- More than 70 market stalls.
- The Samichlaus comes to the square with his donkey and hands out mandarins and peanuts.
Source: solothurn-city.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–19:00
- Opening hours
- Wednesday to Friday 14:00–19:00 · Saturday and Sunday 10:00–19:00 · closed Monday and Tuesday
- Meeting point
- Pfarreiheim St. Fiden, 9000 St. Gallen
- Organiser
- Kerzenziehen im Pfarreiheim St. Fiden (Katholische Kirche St. Gallen)
St. Gallen's second candle dipping, in the parish hall in the east of the city: red paraffin or beeswax, with a café corner — and at weekends from 10:00 to 19:00, nine hours straight.
Good to know- School classes and other groups on request, also outside opening hours.
Everything on St. Gallen · St. Fiden→
Source: kathsg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Wednesday 14:00–20:00 · Thursday 16:00–20:00 · Friday 14:00–21:00 · Saturday 11:00–21:00 · Sunday 11:00–17:00 · Monday and Tuesday for groups only
- Meeting point
- Goethekeller, Goethestrasse 6, 8712 Stäfa
- Organiser
- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Stäfa-Hombrechtikon zusammen mit der römisch-katholischen Pfarrei St. Verena
Stäfa dips its candles ecumenically — the Reformed and Catholic parishes run the event together.
Good to know- New venue in 2026: after two years in a tent on Kirchbühl, the Stäfa candle dipping moves back to the Goethekeller (Goethestrasse 6) — «with much more space», plus an extra Wednesday afternoon and a Thursday evening. There is no parking at the Goethekeller; paid public parking nearby. Proceeds go to selected social projects.
Source: pfarreistaefa.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Stein am Rhein
- Organiser
- Märlistadt Stein am Rhein
The 25th Märlistadt: the market runs past Christmas and New Year until 3 January 2027 – with a fairy-tale market, a medieval market and a fairy-tale trail in the old town.
Good to know- As of 06.10.2026 the organiser has not yet published the 2026 opening days and hours.
Source: maerlistadt.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Opening hours
- Wed 2 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 3 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 4 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Sat 5 Dec 11:00–18:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Sun 6 Dec 10:00–14:00 (Jubla Rotbach) · Wed 9 Dec 13:30–17:00 (KJAT team) · Thu 10 Dec 14:00–17:30 · Fri 11 Dec 14:00–17:30
- Meeting point
- Pfarreizentrum Stofel (Untergeschoss), Stofelweid 1b, 9053 Teufen
- Food and drink
- Alte Kleider und Schuhe anziehen; Schachteln oder Tasche für den Transport der Kerzen mitbringen.
- Organiser
- Katholische Pfarrei Teufen-Bühler-Stein (Jugendarbeit, KJAT und Jubla Rotbach)
The only session in this survey that publishes which team runs the wax pots on which day: the KJAT team on both Wednesdays, Jubla Rotbach on Saturday and Sunday. Elsewhere the calendar gives only the hours.
Good to know- Price: CHF 4.– per 100 g of coloured wax. Children under 8 only when accompanied by an adult. Insurance is, according to the organiser, the participants' own responsibility.
- Advance booking via the online tool Nuudel is requested; dropping in is possible but without guarantee.
- Cross-checked on 12 September 2026: the run and the eight operating days carry the year 2026, and every weekday-date pair fits 2026 (2 December = Wednesday) and no other year. The registration link and the linked flyer on the same page, however, are still labelled «Kerzenziehen 2025» — open the flyer and you read last year's figures.
Source: kath-rotbachtal.ch · checked on 12 September 2026
- Start
- 13:00–21:00
- Opening hours
- Daily 13:00–21:00 · Saturday and Sunday from 12:00 · Saturday 12 December only until 15:00 · mornings reserved for classes and groups
- Meeting point
- Beheiztes Zelt an der Langfurrenstrasse 2, Areal der FEG Wetzikon, 8620 Wetzikon
- Organiser
- Verein KulturFeld und Freie Evangelische Gemeinde Wetzikon
Open every day until 9 pm, in a heated tent — and only from December, when most candle-dipping events in the canton of Zurich have already packed up.
Good to know- Priced by weight: a thin candle about 20 cm long costs around 5 francs depending on the wax. Coloured paraffin and beeswax candles are dipped.
- Classes and groups book a 2-hour slot on a morning. Inside the tent there is a café corner with hot drinks, cake and snacks.
Source: kerzenziehen-wetzikon.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 13:30–17:30
- Opening hours
- Wed, Sat, Sun 13:30–17:30 · Mon, Tue, Thu, Fri 14:00–17:00 · additionally Thu 3./10./17.12 18:30–21:30 (adults only)
- Meeting point
- GZ Heuried, Werkatelier, Döltschiweg 130, 8055 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Heuried
The only place in the survey with three adults-only evenings — and one of the few that offer public dipping only through ONLINE-reserved slots, here one hour each, with a published no-show rule: after 15 minutes the place goes to the next person.
Good to know- Prices: coloured candles CHF 3.20 per 100 g, beeswax CHF 4.80 per 100 g, plus CHF 1.00 per wick.
- According to the community centre, the booking windows for the afternoons only open from mid-November.
- On days without fully booked slots, signing up on the spot is also possible — with no guarantee of a place.
- Mornings from 09:00 to 11:30 are reserved exclusively for school classes and larger groups.
- The event only starts on 2 December — the last new start of the Zurich season, and in return it runs furthest into December.
Everything on Zurich · Heuried→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:00
- Opening hours
- Wednesday 14:00–17:00 and 18:30–21:30 · Thursday, Saturday and Sunday 14:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- GZ Affoltern, Bodenacker 25, 8046 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Affoltern
Good to know- Priced by weight: coloured candles CHF 3.50, beeswax CHF 5.00 per 100 g, cash or Twint. No booking; when busy the centre hands out numbers and you wait in the Kafi-Treff. Schools and after-school clubs are invited separately, groups book «Kerzenziehen exklusiv» (3 to 15 December).
Everything on Zurich · Affoltern→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Thursday, 3 – 20 December 202618 daysAarauAG✨ Christmas market ·Advent i de Altstadt Aarau✓Open page
- Opening hours
- Market: Thursday and Friday 16:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00 · food and drink: Thursday and Friday 16:00–22:00, Saturday 10:00–23:00, Sunday 10:00–21:00 · on three weekends: 3–6, 10–13 and 17–20 December
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Aarau · Schlossplatz · Unterer Graben
- Organiser
- Verein Advent i de Altstadt, Aarau
The food and drink stands stay open an hour longer than the market every evening, two hours on Saturdays. That is not a detail but the design of the event: first shop, then stay – the stalls close, the tavern does not.
Source: advent-aarau.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 13:30
- Opening hours
- Thursday 13:30–22:00, Friday 11:00–22:00, Saturday 11:00–22:00, Sunday 11:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Bremgarten
- Organiser
- Verein Christchindlimärt, Bremgarten
Over 250 stalls in a medieval old town that goes car-free for four days. The figure comes from the organiser itself – press reports say "over 320", the association on its own site says "over 250". We carry the lower one, because it comes from the source that is accountable for it.
Source: weihnachtsmarkt.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 19:00
- Meeting point
- Ref. Kirchgemeindehaus Pfäffikon, Hofstrasse 2a, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Höfe
The only organiser in this survey to have published more for the year after next than for the coming one: for 2026 a single evening is in the calendar, for 2027 already eight days in a row (28 November to 5 December). If you want to dip by day in 2026 you have no date yet — if you are planning 2027, you do.
Good to know- «Kerzenziehen Deluxe» is an evening event from 19:00, not the daytime offering. The ordinary dipping days for 2026 were not published as of 11 September 2026 — for those the parish gives only its rule, «as a rule in the first week of Advent».
- According to the organiser the dipping setup is also available to schools and clubs outside opening hours, by arrangement.
Everything on Freienbach · Pfäffikon→
Source: refkirchehoefe.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–20:00
- Opening hours
- Market stalls 11:00–20:00 · Food stalls 11:00–21:00 · Final day 21.12 only until 19:00
- Meeting point
- Franziskanerplatz, Luzern
- Organiser
- IG Luzerner Herbstmesse und Märkte
On the Franciscan fountain shines the largest Advent wreath in Central Switzerland: over three metres across, with four metre-high candles.
Good to know- Around 70 market stalls.
- Planning trap: this market only starts on 3 December – two weeks after Zurich, Bern and Zug. Anyone travelling to Lucerne in early December will find nothing yet on Franziskanerplatz.
- The travel magazine «Time Out» ranks it among the ten most beautiful Christmas markets in Europe.
Everything on Lucerne · Franziskanerplatz→
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-luzern.com · checked on 8 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Wed 09.12 14:00–21:00 · Thu 03./10./17.12 14:00–21:00 · Fri 04./11./18.12 14:00–21:00 · Sat 05./12./19.12 11:00–21:00 · Sun 06./13./20.12 11:00–19:30
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Rapperswil, zwei Gehminuten ab Bahnhof
- Organiser
- Christkindlimärt Rapperswil-Jona
Not a continuous market but three blocks – and that is exactly what almost every overview misses: on five days in the middle of the period nothing happens at all.
Good to know- Closed days: on 7, 8, 14, 15 and 16 December 2026 there is no market.
- First weekend 3–6.12 and third weekend 17–20.12, each with around 100 exhibitors.
- The big Christkindlimärt with more than 200 stalls runs from Wednesday 9 to Sunday 13 December 2026 – now over five days instead of four.
Everything on Rapperswil-Jona→
Source: rapperswil-zuerichsee.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Stadtplatz Brig, 5 Minuten ab Bahnhof
- Organiser
- Gewerbeverein Brig-Glis
Around 25 market huts on the Stadtplatz, five market days from Friday to Tuesday: the market does not end on Sunday but on 8 December.
Good to know- Brig Simplon Tourism's event calendar lists five market days from 4 December for 2026; the description on the same site still says "between 5 and 8 December". We carry the calendar, because it states the year.
Source: brig-simplon.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 14:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–18:30
- Meeting point
- Vieille ville de Carouge
- Organiser
- Commerces et artisanat de Carouge (IC)
Three days in the lanes of the old town, centred on local craft: jewellery, decorations, clothing, art objects – much of it handmade.
Source: commerces-carouge.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Volksgarten und Güterschuppen, Glarus
- Organiser
- Glarus Service
The market runs in the Volksgarten AND in the goods shed – in rain the visit moves under a roof instead of being cancelled. The source names both spaces expressly in one sentence.
Good to know- Opening hours for 2026 are not yet published – the source expressly writes «hours to follow». No time appears here for that reason: an estimated one would be worse than none.
- On Friday 4 December a St Nicholas parade with some 600 children moves through Glarus from 18:30 – anyone visiting the market on opening night is in the middle of it.
Everything on Glarus · Volksgarten→
Source: myswitzerland.com · checked on 15 September 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Main procession on 5 December at 8.15 pm — if 5 December falls on a Saturday or Sunday, on the Friday before (St. Niklausengesellschaft Küssnacht)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Start
- 20:15
- Meeting point
- Dorfzentrum Küssnacht am Rigi
- Organiser
- St. Niklausengesellschaft Küssnacht
In 2026 the Klaus is chased on Friday 4 December — not on St Nicholas Eve: the 5th falls on a Saturday, and the society's rule then moves it to the Friday before.
Good to know- Well over 200 Iffelen — lantern mitres up to more than 2.5 metres tall with punched-out ornaments — move through the darkened streets.
- Over 1,500 men take part, close to a thousand of them bell ringers; up to 30,000 people watch.
- From 2 November onwards, whip crackers can be heard somewhere in the village every evening.
- At 8.15 pm sharp a mortar shot silences the crowd and the lights go out. Order of the procession: whip crackers, Iffelen, St Nicholas with his Schmutzlis and torch bearers, the band with its three-note chord, the bell ringers — and the horns last.
- The general assembly of 28 November 2025 shortened the children's procession route: a break at the Lindenhof car park instead of the extra loop via Bahnhofstrasse, Geissacherstrasse and Luzernerstrasse.
- The organiser states the rule, not the 2026 date. 4 December 2026 is calculated from it and expressly unconfirmed.
Source: klausjagen.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 15:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Dorfplatz Steinhausen
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Steinhausen
A Friday-evening market: five hours on the village square from 3 pm – in 2026 under new Christmas lights.
Good to know- Besides this market, Zug Tourismus lists further Advent events in the canton for 2026 (including Lake Noël Zug 10–23 Dec, Christmas market in the castle courtyard 12/13 Dec); they are not yet entered individually here.
Source: zug-tourismus.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 15:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 15:00–21:00, Saturday 12:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Wiler Altstadt und Fussgängerzone
- Organiser
- Stadt Wil
Over 50 decorated sales huts and around 50 further stalls in the old town and pedestrian zone – three days, each with its own opening hours.
Source: stadtwil.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 10:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 10:00–22:00, Saturday 10:00–22:00, Sunday 10:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Willisau
- Organiser
- Christkindli Märt Willisau
Twelve hours on Friday and Saturday, from 10:00 to 22:00 – the longest market day in the Lucerne data, and the opposite of an after-work market: Willisau opens in the morning and closes late at night.
Good to know- On its dates page the organiser names no legal entity behind the market; we therefore carry the market's own name as the organiser.
Source: xn--christkindlimrt-willisau-2bc.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 13:00
- Opening hours
- Saturday 13:00–19:00, Sunday 11:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Postplatz, Appenzell
- Organiser
- Verein Postplatzmarkt
The tourism office names three things in one sentence: illuminated stars, incense wreaths – and shops that are open on Sunday. Anyone visiting the market can therefore shop as well; for a Sunday event that is not a given.
Good to know- ⚠️ Corrected on 06.10.2026: until then we calculated 13 December from the rule «second Sunday in December». The event calendar of the same source, however, lists Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 December for 2026 – we follow the calendar because it carries the year.
Everything on Appenzell · Postplatz→
Source: appenzell.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Dorfkern Beckenried
- Organiser
- Samichlais-Märcht Beckenried
Market and custom on the same day: during the day local hobby makers, craftspeople and collectors run the stalls, in the evening the Samichlais procession follows. «Samichlais», not «Samichlaus» – that is his name in Nidwalden.
Good to know- Nidwalden Tourismus lists the market on 05.12.2026, the municipality gives the rule «first Saturday in December» – both agree. Times for 2026 are not yet published.
Source: nidwalden.com · checked on 6 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Vieille ville de St-Ursanne
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël du Clos du Doubs
More than 100 exhibitors in the historic little town on the Doubs – and according to Jura Tourisme, only makers who produce their goods themselves are admitted.
Good to know- As of 06.10.2026 the organiser has not yet published the 2026 hours.
Source: noelstursanne.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Collège St-Michel
- Start
- 17:00
- Destination
- Cathédrale St-Nicolas
- Organiser
- Collège St-Michel und Ville de Fribourg
Since 1906, students of the Collège St-Michel have organised the visit of the city's patron saint: Saint Nicholas rides his donkey from the Collège to the cathedral, blessing the crowd.
Good to know- In 2026 the festival runs from 4 to 6 December; Friday evening opens with a small procession from the Collège to the Temple.
- On Saturday public transport in zones 10 and 11 is free (City and Agglomeration of Fribourg).
- Route: Rue du Collège St-Michel – Rue de Romont – Rue de Lausanne – Rue du Pont-Muré – stop in front of the cathedral forecourt. His retinue: donkey driver, cantor, crozier bearer and butcher; he hands out biscômes (spiced gingerbread) along the way.
- The speech starts around 6 pm from the cathedral terrace, in French and German, and is shown live on a giant screen on Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville and on La Télé.
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Sat 11:00–20:00 (food and entertainment zone until 24:00) · Sun 11:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Ebnet, Herisau
- Organiser
- Verein Herisauer Christchindlimarkt
The market closes at 20:00 on Saturday – the food and entertainment zone runs until midnight. Four hours in which the stalls are shut and the square is full anyway.
Good to know- The municipality of Herisau states the rule «first weekend in December»; the association publishes the concrete 2026 dates of 5 and 6 December. The two agree.
Everything on Herisau · Ebnet→
Source: christchindlimarkt-herisau.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Dorfzentrum Riehen, Wettsteinstrasse und Webergässchen
- Organiser
- VRD Vereinigung Riehener Dorfgeschäfte
Not a separate Christmas market but the December edition of the Riehen village market: one of only three market days a year (9 May, 5 September, 5 December 2026).
Good to know- The organiser publishes the 2026 date but no opening hours. Riehen Tourism calls the December edition the "Riehener Adventsmarkt".
Source: riehenerdorfmarkt.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Monday to Thursday 14:00–19:00, Friday 14:00–21:00, Saturday 11:00–21:00, Sunday 11:00–19:00 · opening on 5 December 11:00–21:00 · 8 December (Immaculate Conception) 11:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Place du Midi, 1950 Sion · Espace des Remparts, 1950 Sion
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël de Sion
8 December is a public holiday in Valais (Immaculate Conception) – and the market lists it separately with its own hours instead of letting it vanish under "Tuesday". It spreads across two squares, Place du Midi and Espace des Remparts.
Source: mdnsion.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Every year on 5 December, starting 7.40 pm at the Tellenmatt school buildings) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Assembly
- Tellenmatt-Schulhäuser
- Start
- 19:40
- Meeting point
- Engelbergstrasse · Schmiedgasse · Dorfplatz · Nägeligasse · St. Karli-Kreisel · Stansstaderstrasse
- Destination
- Schulhausplatz Tellenmatt
- Organiser
- Sankt Nikolaus Verein Stans
Here Samichlaus does not walk — he is carried: before he returns to the forests, he is borne through the village in state, with Schmutzlis, servants, lantern and torch bearers.
Good to know- Route: Engelbergstrasse – Schmiedgasse – Dorfplatz – Nägeligasse – St. Karli roundabout – Stansstaderstrasse – Dorfplatz – Tellenmatt school square.
- The source states the rule «every year on 5 December». In 2026 that is a Saturday — the date is calculated from it, not published for 2026.
Source: luzern.com · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 17:00
- Destination
- Dorfplatz Unterägeri
- Organiser
- Chlauseslä Unterägeri
It is named after a wooden donkey: the Chlausesel, a carved head hung with ribbons, goes out with the children in the afternoon and with the Rottä groups at night — a custom found only in the Ägeri valley.
Good to know- After 5 pm six Rottä groups go door to door with whips, cowbells and horns; after 9.30 pm they all parade together across the village square.
- In the afternoon (3–5 pm) only children up to the end of primary school go from house to house calling «Holi holi hüü, dä Chlaus isch doo!». Parents stay at home so that no child finds an empty house (chlauseslae.ch).
- At the procession after 9.30 pm close to 200 Chlauseslär circle the village square several times, with the street lights dimmed (chlauseslae.ch).
Source: chlauseslae.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Freiruum, Aabachstrasse 16, 6300 Zug
- Organiser
- Freiruum Zug
Not a standalone session but a station inside the winter market: «Kerzenziehen im Genussbereich vor den Meetingräumen (5 Franken, keine Voranmeldung nötig)». That was the 2025 edition: a fixed price per candle instead of payment by weight. For 2026 the Freiruum has not yet published price and conditions.
Source: zug-tourismus.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Assembly
- Föhrenwäldli
- Start
- 18:00
- Destination
- Dorfbad
- Organiser
- Samichläuse Bad Ragaz (Auskunft: Heidiland Tourismus, Infostelle Bad Ragaz)
Not one Samichlaus but forty: a bishop leads 40 Samichlaus figures and Schmutzlis from the Föhrenwäldli through the village to the Dorfbad.
Good to know- The Samichlaus figures are expected at the village hall around 6 pm; the Harmonie Bad Ragaz band plays while you wait.
- «A tradition of more than 60 years»: the bishop addresses the crowd, and he and the Samichlaus figures carry light into the village in their lanterns (Heidiland Tourism).
Source: graubuenden.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Traditionally on 6 December, in the afternoon from the station square to Piazza Collegiata (RSI report)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Assembly
- Piazzale della Stazione
- Destination
- Piazza Collegiata
- Organiser
- San Nicolao Bellinzona (Trägerschaft nicht publiziert)
A children's lantern procession escorts San Nicolao from the station through the old town to Piazza Collegiata, where every child receives a small gift.
Good to know- The 6 December edition is documented (RSI report). The 2026 date is derived from tradition and unconfirmed.
Source: rsi.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Egg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Feuerthalen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Assembly
- Kongresssaal Grindelwald
- Start
- 17:15
- Destination
- Eiger+ Nordwandplatz
- Organiser
- Grindelwald Tourismus
With donkeys below the Eiger north face: meet at the congress hall at 5.15 pm, Samichlaus arrives with Schmutzli and donkeys at 5.30 pm.
Good to know- The source says «Saturday 6 December 2026» — but 6 December 2026 is a Sunday. Date and weekday contradict each other; check the source before you go.
Source: grindelwald.swiss · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- Blausee AG mit der Stiftung «Freude herrscht»
42 metres through mountain-lake water at about 5 degrees, 500 places, around 1,000 spectators — all proceeds go to the «Freude herrscht» foundation.
Good to know- The same Sunday as Zurich's Samichlausschwimmen: both follow the first-Sunday-in-December rule.
- The «Freude herrscht» foundation gets children and young people into sport and exercise.
- According to Blausee AG the 6 December 2026 swim is fully booked; spectators are welcome (register or buy a ticket on the day). In 2025, 587 people swam at 4.7 degrees.
Everything on Kandergrund · Blausee→
Source: blausee.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Mettmenstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Niederhasli
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Obfelden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Ottenbach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
The organiser states a fixed rule (Traditionally on 6 December (tio.ch report on the 2024 edition)) but no calendar date yet. The date shown is derived from that rule – it is not officially confirmed.
- Organiser
- Festa di San Nicolao Paradiso (Trägerschaft nicht publiziert)
Bagpipes instead of cowbells: the Ticino procession has bagpipe and accordion players, ponies and little donkeys in Christmas costume — through the streets and along the lakefront.
Good to know- The 6 December 2024 edition is documented (press report). The 2026 date is derived from tradition and unconfirmed.
Source: tio.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rümlang
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Schlieren
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Steinmaur
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Assembly
- Restaurant Pier 7, Limmatquai 7 (Schifflände)
- Start
- 13:00–15:00
- Meeting point
- Pier 7 (Limmatquai 7)
- Destination
- Frauenbad Stadthausquai
- Organiser
- Zürileu Schwimmveranstaltungen
Once a year the Frauenbad at Stadthausquai opens in winter: 400 places, starts in groups of 20 across the Limmat, barley soup at the finish.
Good to know- Course of 111 or 125 metres, from Pier 7 (Limmatquai 7) to the Frauenbad at Stadthausquai. Water 6–10 °C depending on the weather.
- Advance sale from Monday 30 November 2026 at 5 pm. 180 charity tickets (start from 1.05 pm) and 220 standard tickets (from about 1.45 pm); auction tickets start at 1 pm.
- Spectator ticket CHF 13 including ZVV travel and punch. Clothes are taken to the other bank — bring your own bag.
- In 2025, 365 people swam in 8.4 °C water in constant rain — the official tickets sold out on the evening sales opened.
Source: samichlausschwimmen.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Meeting point
- Badener Innenstadt
- Food and drink
- Crêpes, Frühlingsrollen, Raclette, Rösti; Fondue-Hütte auf dem Bahnhofplatz
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Baden
A single day – but beneath Baden's Christmas lighting, a work of light unique in Switzerland.
Good to know- The exhibitors are mainly small stallholders showing work they have made themselves.
- The market's opening hours were not published as of 8 September – the source lists only the office hours of the information point.
Source: aargautourismus.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 14:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Parc des Bastions, Genf
- Organiser
- Ville de Genève
A market organised by children for children: since 2007 under a large tent in the Parc des Bastions – three hours on a Wednesday afternoon.
Source: geneve.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Thu–Sat 11:00–20:00 (food and drinks until 21:00) · Sun 11:00–18:00 (food and drinks until 18:00)
- Meeting point
- Stedtli (Altstadt), Liestal
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Liestal
The market closes at 20:00 on three of its four days – but food and drinks run an hour longer. On Sunday that extra hour disappears: everything closes together at 18:00.
Good to know- The organiser publishes no street address, only «Stedtli», the old-town core. No street name appears here for that reason: it would be invented.
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-liestal.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Historisches Zentrum Altdorf (Unter- und Oberlehn)
- Organiser
- Gemeinde Altdorf
The municipality names around 110 stalls – and a single day, Friday 11 December. Miss it and you wait a year; most markets in this survey run over a weekend or longer.
Good to know- The municipality gives the date but no opening hours for 2026. No time appears here for that reason.
Source: altdorf.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
- Friday, 11 – 23 December 202613 daysMontheyVS✨ Christmas market ·Marché de Noël de Monthey✓Open page
- Opening hours
- 11/12 December 11:00–22:00 · 13 December 11:00–21:00 · 14/15 December 15:00–21:00 · 17/18 December 15:00–22:00 · 19 December 11:00–22:00 · 20 December 11:00–21:00 · 21–23 December 15:00–21:00
- Meeting point
- Centre-ville Monthey
- Organiser
- Ville de Monthey, Service Culture, Tourisme & Jumelage
Thirteen calendar days but twelve market days – and the hours change almost daily, from 11:00 at weekends to 15:00 on the weekdays in between. Anyone planning on "daily from 11:00" here arrives four hours too early to closed chalets.
Good to know- For Wednesday 16 December the organiser publishes no opening hours – every other day is listed individually. It does not say "closed", it stays silent: anyone planning to come on that particular day should check first.
Source: noelmonthey.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Start
- 16:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 16:00–22:00, Saturday 10:00–22:00, Sunday 10:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Murten
- Organiser
- Region Murtensee / Région Lac de Morat
Around 25 craft stalls under the arcades of the old town – small enough to see in one evening, and open until 22:00 on Saturday. Murten is bilingual: here the market is also called Marché de Noël.
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Sat 12.12 10:00–21:00 · Sun 13.12 11:00–18:00 · Mon 14.12 17:00–21:00 · Tue 15.12 17:00–21:00 · Wed 16.12 14:00–21:00 · Thu 17.12 17:00–21:00 · Fri 18.12 17:00–21:00 · Sat 19.12 10:00–21:00 · Sun 20.12 11:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Place du Marché, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Organiser
- Noël des Montagnes
Nine days in a row, and on five of them the market opens only at 17:00. Anyone planning the weekdays like a weekend stands six hours early on an empty square – which is why the organiser lists every single day with its own hours.
Everything on La Chaux-de-Fonds · Place du Marché→
Source: noeldesmontagnes.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Ortszentrum Lachen
- Organiser
- Marktkommission Lachen
One market day on the Saturday before the third Sunday of Advent – run by the market commission that also runs Lachen's other markets of the year.
Source: lachner-maerkte.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Opening hours
- Saturday 12.12.2026 11:00–19:00 · Sunday 13.12.2026 11:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Vordergasse · Münstergasse · Klosterbezirk zu Allerheiligen
- Organiser
- Verein Schaffhauser Weihnachtsmarkt
It is held in the more than 800-year-old cloister of Allerheiligen – the largest cloister in Switzerland. No other market on this list has such a setting.
Good to know- In 2026 for the 12th time.
- The entire market area is car-free during opening hours; it is less than a five-minute walk from Schaffhausen station.
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-sh.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Höfli-/Steinmättli-Areal, Stans
- Organiser
- Säumer- und Trainvereinigung Unterwalden
This market is run by a muleteers' and pack-train association – by people who lead pack animals, not by a traders' guild. That explains the living nativity and the ponies, which elsewhere would be decoration.
Good to know- As of 06.10.2026 Nidwalden Tourismus lists the market for Saturday and Sunday, 12 and 13 December 2026, with some 130 stalls; Tourismus Stans still says «December». Opening hours for 2026 are not published.
Everything on Stans · Höfli-/Steinmättli-Areal→
Source: nidwalden.com · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Saturday 11:00–21:00, Sunday 11:00–18:00
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Weinfelden
- Organiser
- Gewerbeverein Weinfelden und Umgebung
One weekend in the old town, with an event stage for music between the stalls – and open until 9 pm on Saturday.
Source: gewerbeweinfelden.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 13:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- 13:00–18:00. Basel-Stadt permits the afternoon only — in the morning the shops stay closed.
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft und Arbeit Basel-Stadt
Basel-Stadt does not use up the four Sundays federal law would allow: two remain — and they only start at 1 p.m.
Source: media.bs.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dielsdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dietlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Hinwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Horgen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Kappel am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Kloten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 08:00–18:30
- Opening hours
- Legally permitted 08:00–18:30; the City Vereinigung Luzern recommends closing at 17:00. Each shop's own hours are what count.
- Set by
- City Vereinigung Luzern
Source: city-luzern.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Mönchaltorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Richterswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Seegräben
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–17:00
- Opening hours
- 11:00–17:00 in the town of Solothurn (Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung). The law itself sets no hours.
- Set by
- Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung Solothurn
Source: stadtgewerbevereinigung.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Thalwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Turbenthal
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Uitikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Volketswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wallisellen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Zell ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Soledurner Wiehnachtsmäret, Solothurn
- Organiser
- Reformierte Kirchgemeinde Solothurn
Not a hall but a stand in the middle of the Christmas market: here the candle dipping is part of a larger event rather than a place of its own. The organiser says plainly what it depends on — without enough volunteers it does not happen.
Good to know- The period is taken verbatim from the parish's call for volunteers of 8 September 2026 («vom 16.12.2026-20.12.2026»). Opening hours and the exact spot within the market were not yet published for 2026 as of 11 September 2026; the details of the 2023 edition are not carried forward here.
Source: reformiert-solothurn.ch · checked on 11 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Kreuzackerpark, Solothurn
- Organiser
- Verein Pro Vorstadt Solothurn
Solothurn has two markets two weeks apart: the Chlausemäret in early December in the old town and this five-day Wiehnachtsmäret just before Christmas across the Aare in the Kreuzackerpark.
Source: provorstadt.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 14:00–20:00, Saturday 11:00–20:00, Sunday 11:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Frauenfelder Innenstadt
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Frauenfeld
It runs on the third Advent weekend, later than almost all the others – and 2026 is the 33rd edition, with around 160 exhibitors and some 35,000 visitors. Anyone who slept through the Advent season gets a second chance here.
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-frauenfeld.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Assembly
- Bateau Genève, quai Marchand (Garderoben)
- Meeting point
- Jardin anglais · Bateau Genève, quai Marchand
- Destination
- Rade de Genève
- Organiser
- Association CdN 1934
The oldest sporting event in the canton of Geneva, held since 1934 — and on Switzerland's list of living traditions since 2023.
Good to know- Registration in two phases: 500 places in the timed heats from Saturday 26 September 2026 at 1 pm; 4,000 places in the fancy-dress heats from Saturday 10 October 2026 at 1 pm.
- Entry fee now CHF 45 (CHF 40 for more than a decade). Payment by card or Twint.
- New: a 70+ category with the Trophée Gaëtan Beysard; on Sunday 20 December at noon, an open 100-metre heat in his memory.
- Changing rooms on the Bateau Genève at quai Marchand — arrive an hour before your heat. Afterwards: hot tea, a wood-fired hot tub, fondue.
Source: cdn1934.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Meeting point
- Dorfkern Muttenz
- Organiser
- Gemeinde Muttenz
A late date: the weekend of the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Saturday falls five days before Christmas Eve.
Source: muttenz.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Adliswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bachenbülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 13:00–18:00
- Opening hours
- 13:00–18:00. Basel-Stadt permits the afternoon only — in the morning the shops stay closed.
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft und Arbeit Basel-Stadt
Basel-Stadt does not use up the four Sundays federal law would allow: two remain — and they only start at 1 p.m.
Source: media.bs.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bonstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Buchs ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dällikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dielsdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Dietikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Egg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Eglisau
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Embrach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Feuerthalen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Geroldswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Hinwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Hombrechtikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Horgen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Kloten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Langnau am Albis
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 08:00–18:30
- Opening hours
- Legally permitted 08:00–18:30; the City Vereinigung Luzern recommends closing at 17:00. Each shop's own hours are what count.
- Set by
- City Vereinigung Luzern
Source: city-luzern.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Meilen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Mettmenstetten
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Mönchaltorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Neftenbach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Niederhasli
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Obfelden
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Otelfingen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Ottenbach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Regensdorf
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Richterswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rümlang
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rüschlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Schlieren
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Seegräben
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–17:00
- Opening hours
- 11:00–17:00 in the town of Solothurn (Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung). The law itself sets no hours.
- Set by
- Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung Solothurn
Source: stadtgewerbevereinigung.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Stäfa
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Thalwil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Amt für Wirtschaft des Kantons Bern
Source: weu.be.ch · checked on 13 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Turbenthal
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Uitikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Uster
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Volketswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wädenswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wallisellen
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Wetzikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Zell ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Zumikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Adliswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Buchs ZH
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Bülach
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Egg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Geroldswil
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Rüschlikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Stäfa
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Uster
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Set by
- Gemeinde Zumikon
Source: zh.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
- Organiser
- Associazione Nebiopoli
The earliest carnival in our survey: Chiasso is done by 24 January 2027 — eleven days before Dirty Thursday begins in Lucerne.
Good to know- The masked parade runs on Saturday 23 January 2027 on a closed circuit; Wednesday evening is free.
Source: nebiopoli.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- FUKO Olten
Olten starts on the eve of Dirty Thursday: on Wednesday 3 February 2027, with the 'Naarestopf'.
Good to know- It opens as early as Hilari: on Saturday 16 January 2027, with the fez handover on the Ildefonsplatz — 19 days before Dirty Thursday.
- 2027 programme according to FUKO: Naarestopf 3 Feb (Ildefonsplatz) · Schnitzelbank evening 4 Feb · lantern festival 5 Feb (Ildefonsplatz) · Potpourri 6 Feb (Schützi) · parade 7 Feb · seniors' afternoon 9 Feb (Stadttheater).
- The 2027 Obernaar is 'Margot I.' — Margot Heule of the Aente Büsi Guggemusig Olten — with the motto 'Sonneklar'.
Source: oltner-fasnacht.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- VFGB Badener Fasnacht
Source: badenerfasnacht.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 04:00
- Organiser
- Fasnachtsgesellschaft Goldmäuder Einsiedeln
In Einsiedeln carnival starts on Epiphany: the first 'Itrichlä' cowbell entry is on 6 January 2027 at 8 pm on the abbey square — four weeks before the boys' bell-ringers on Dirty Thursday.
Source: goldmaeuder.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Schweizerhofquai beim Luzernerhof
- Start
- 14:00
- Meeting point
- Schweizerhofquai · Schwanenplatz · Kapellplatz · Seebrücke · Bahnhofplatz · Pilatusstrasse
- Destination
- Helvetiagarten
- Organiser
- Lozärner Fasnachtskomitee (LFK)
Only on Dirty Thursday does the parade take an extra loop across Kapellplatz — in honour of Brother Fritschi and the guild master of the Saffron Guild at the Fritschi fountain.
Good to know- Lucerne's carnival runs from Dirty Thursday, 4 February, to Shrove Tuesday, 9 February 2027 — by Ash Wednesday it is over.
- The parade also thrives on the 'wild ones': the committee counted more than 140 independent groups in recent years.
- At the Fritschi fountain the parade does not just circle once: the Saffron Guild's Fritschi float goes round it three times.
Everything on Lucerne · Schweizerhofquai→
Source: lfk.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Seebecken
- Start
- 05:00
- Destination
- Kapellplatz
- Organiser
- Lozärner Fasnachtskomitee (LFK) mit der Zunft zu Safran
Brother Fritschi arrives by water: at 5 am he lands with his Fritschi family on a Nauen barge in the lake basin — only then is Lucerne's carnival officially open.
Good to know- On Kapellplatz the 'Fötzeliräge' confetti rain and the orange throwing follow; from 8 am the Fritschi procession leaves the Kornmarkt through the old town.
Everything on Lucerne · Seebecken→
Source: lfk.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Organiser
- Carnaval de Monthey
The 154th edition — preceded by its own 'Petit-Carnaval' on 30 and 31 January 2027.
Source: carnavaldemonthey.com · checked on 6 October 2026
- Thursday, 4 – 10 February 20277 daysSolothurn · AltstadtSO🎭 carnival ·Solothurner Fasnacht✓Open page
- Organiser
- Vereinigte Fasnachtsgesellschaft Solothurn (UNO)
Solothurn celebrates for seven days — from Dirty Thursday up to and including Ash Wednesday, one day longer than Lucerne.
Everything on Solothurn · Altstadt→
Source: fasnacht-solothurn.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- Carnaval du Jura
Tuesday belongs to the children: they take centre stage all afternoon, followed by the big evening party in the Halle des fêtes.
Source: carnavaldujura.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- Association du Carnaval des Bolzes
The carnival of Fribourg's Lower Town, the 'Bolzes', with Guggen bands, Rababous and a parade through the Basse-Ville.
Everything on Fribourg · Basse-Ville→
Source: carnavaldesbolzes.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- FUKO Olten
The parade falls on carnival Sunday, in the middle of Olten's week — four days after the Naarestopf, two days before the end.
Source: oltner-fasnacht.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Organiser
- St. Galler Fasnachtsgesellschaft
Good to know- St. Gallen's carnival runs from 4 to 9 February 2027; the Guggen bands play on three stages (Neugasse, Scherrerplatz, Bärenplatz).
Source: fasnachtsg.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Schweizerhofquai beim Luzernerhof
- Start
- 14:00
- Meeting point
- Schweizerhofquai · Schwanenplatz · Seebrücke · Bahnhofplatz · Pilatusstrasse
- Destination
- Helvetiagarten
- Organiser
- Lozärner Fasnachtskomitee (LFK) mit der Wey-Zunft
Same route as on Dirty Thursday, but without the loop to the Fritschi fountain — Güdismontag belongs to the Wey guild, and Swiss television SRF broadcasts the parade.
Good to know- Güdismontag starts at 6 am with the Wey reveille on Kapellplatz: the Wey guild master and a monster concert of Guggen bands.
Everything on Lucerne · Schweizerhofquai→
Source: lfk.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Mühlenplatz
- Start
- 14:30
- Meeting point
- Mühlenplatz · Rössligasse · Weggisgasse · Eisengasse · Kapellgasse · Kornmarkt · Weinmarkt · Reussbrücke
- Destination
- Jesuitenplatz
- Organiser
- Lozärner Fasnachtskomitee (LFK)
That same morning at 11 am, the LFK and the Luzerner Zeitung crown the best single masks and family groups at the Hotel Schweizerhof — 'De beschti Fasnachtsgrend'.
Everything on Lucerne · Altstadt→
Source: lfk.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Assembly
- Bahnhofstrasse
- Start
- 19:30
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofstrasse · Seebrücke · Schwanenplatz · Schweizerhofquai · Töpferstrasse · Hertensteinstrasse · Falkenplatz · Grabenstrasse
- Destination
- Löwengraben
- Organiser
- Lozärner Fasnachtskomitee (LFK) mit den Vereinigten Guuggenmusigen
The finale belongs to the Guggen bands: the Monstercorso crosses the centre on the last evening — next morning is Ash Wednesday and Lucerne's carnival is over.
Everything on Lucerne · Innenstadt→
Source: lfk.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Organiser
- Verein Bärner Fasnacht
Bern only celebrates after Ash Wednesday — when carnival in Lucerne and Solothurn is already over. The association has published its dates up to 2038.
Source: fasnacht.be · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 20:30
- Organiser
- Faschingszunft Biel
Biel has three official parades in three days: night, children, Sunday — the carnival runs from 11 to 14 February 2027.
Source: faschingszunft.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- Züri-Carneval
Zurich keeps going: after the three carnival days, the 'Uuslumpete' farewell party follows on 20 February 2027 at the Markthalle restaurant.
Everything on Zurich · Altstadt→
Source: zurichcarneval.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Organiser
- Faschingszunft Biel
Source: faschingszunft.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Metzggasse (Aufstellung ab 18.15 Uhr)
- Start
- 18:45
- Meeting point
- Metzggasse · Spitalgasse · Steinberggasse
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Winterthur (FAKOWI)
Everything on Winterthur · Altstadt→
Source: fakowi.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 14:00
- Organiser
- Faschingszunft Biel
The big Sunday parade is also a competition: the groups are judged and awarded prizes.
Source: faschingszunft.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 19:15–21:00
- Meeting point
- Burgstrasse · Rathausstrasse · Rebgasse · Gerbergasse
- Destination
- Gestadeckplatz (Kreuzung Rosenmund)
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Liestal im Auftrag der Stadt Liestal
Fire instead of confetti: burning brooms and fire wagons move through the darkened old town — run by the carnival committee on behalf of the town.
Source: fasnacht-liestal.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 13:45–17:30
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Liestal
Source: fasnacht-liestal.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Stadthausstrasse
- Start
- 14:14
- Meeting point
- Stadthausstrasse · Oberer Graben · Marktgasse · Obergasse · Steinberggasse
- Destination
- Neumarkt
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Winterthur (FAKOWI)
Winterthur burns a Böögg effigy at carnival: on Monday 15 February 2027 on the Zeughauswiese, with fireworks and Guggen bands.
Good to know- Winterthur's carnival starts on Thursday 11 February 2027 — a week after Central Switzerland's Dirty Thursday.
- On Friday 12 February 2027 at around 6.20 pm the city president hands over the city key at the fools' tree on the Neumarkt: the fools then rule for three nights and three days.
- The kick-off comes three months earlier: on 11 November 2026 at 11.11 am on the Neumarkt, with a speech and countdown by the Fakowi president.
Source: fakowi.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 04:00
- Organiser
- Fasnachts-Comité Basel
The first rule of the Morgestraich is darkness: the Comité asks people not to open curtains, not to set off fireworks and to take photos without flash — the magic belongs to the lanterns.
Good to know- At four o'clock it gets very crowded: come early, agree on a fixed meeting point, don't form a chain.
- Free ear protection is available at the Comité points on Marktplatz, Barfüsserplatz and Claraplatz.
- Afterwards the cliques head out on three 'Bummelsonntag' outings: 21 and 28 February and 7 March 2027.
Source: fasnachts-comite.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Assembly
- Steinberggasse
- Start
- 14:00
- Meeting point
- Steinberggasse
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Winterthur (FAKOWI)
With a mask award: children are honoured for their costumes.
Source: fakowi.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Start
- 19:00
- Meeting point
- Zeughauswiese
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Winterthur (FAKOWI)
The Böögg burns with fireworks and Guggen bands — an hour after the fools' tree is felled on the Neumarkt (6 pm).
Everything on Winterthur · Zeughauswiese→
Source: fakowi.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
- Start
- 13:45–17:00
- Organiser
- Fasnachtskomitee Liestal
Source: fasnacht-liestal.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- Organiser
- Comité des Brandons de Moudon
Vaud's 'Brandons' come last in our survey: Moudon celebrates from 25 to 28 February 2027 — and doesn't even follow the Easter rule: in 2031 and 2032 its dates fall about a week later than the calculation.
Source: brandons.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Kloster Maria der Engel, Poststrasse 7, 9050 Appenzell
- Organiser
- Seelsorgeteam der Pfarrei St. Mauritius Appenzell, zu Gast im Kloster Maria der Engel
The only session in this survey held in a convent garden: the workshop is set up each year in the garden of the Maria der Engel convent, guided by teenage volunteers — with punch and Appenzell Biberli.
Good to know- As of 12 September 2026 the organiser has published no date for 2026. The most recent dates on the convent's own site are from 2022 (five dates from late November to mid-December). We do not carry them forward.
- Published structure without a year: five individual dipping days during Advent, not one continuous run. The convent's 2026 Advent programme currently lists concerts, exhibitions and the Advent breakfasts — the candle dipping is usually announced separately by the parish.
Source: kloster-appenzell.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Tribüne Landhof, ooink ooink Productions Kinder- und Jugendarbeit, 4058 Basel
- Organiser
- ooink ooink Productions, Kinder- und Jugendarbeit Landhof
Good to know- The most recent post about candle dipping on this page is from last year. We do not carry it forward; the 2026 date is open.
- Structure of the offering according to the organiser (without a year): four days from Wednesday to Saturday, Wed and Fri 14:00–17:30, Thu 14:00–19:30, Sat 11:00–16:00.
Everything on Basel · Wettstein→
Source: landhof.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Thomaskirche, Hegenheimerstrasse 229, 4055 Basel
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche des Kantons Basel-Stadt
On Saturday there is traditionally a spaghetti happening from 18:00 — the only candle dipping in the survey with a supper of its own.
Good to know- As of 08.09.2026 the entry in the church's events calendar still carries last year's date. 2026 date open.
- Published structure (without a year): daily 14:00–20:00, Thursday and Saturday until 22:00.
Everything on Basel · Thomaskirche→
Source: erk-bs.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. The organiser expressly announces the 2026/27 edition («Ci vediamo per l'edizione 2026-27») but gives no date yet.
- Meeting point
- Piazza del Sole, 6500 Bellinzona
- Organiser
- Città di Bellinzona, Dicastero educazione, cultura, giovani e socialità
The Christmas village stands on Piazza del Sole — the square from which a lift cut into the rock runs straight up to Castelgrande, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000 together with Bellinzona's two other castles.
Source: nataleincitta.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Berner Generationenhaus, Bahnhofplatz 2, 3011 Bern
- Organiser
- Berner Generationenhaus in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein UND Generationentandem
The only place in the survey with a tiered solidarity price: you choose the price per candle yourself — CHF 4.– for a small budget, CHF 8.– to cover costs, CHF 12.– as a solidarity price.
Good to know- As of 08.09.2026 the page still shows last year's edition. We do not carry it forward; the 2026 date is open.
- The dipping takes place in wooden huts in the inner courtyard; hosts help where needed.
Everything on Bern · Bahnhofplatz→
Source: begh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Grange de Noël, Route Principale 19, 2915 Bure
- Organiser
- Grange de Noël, Bure
Jura Tourisme gives street and house number here – Route Principale 19 – instead of a square's name. For almost every other entry in this survey it says «old town» or names a square, and the sat-nav entry is guesswork.
Good to know- Jura Tourisme lists the market with a full address but no 2026 date and no opening hours (read on 15.09.2026). The page points instead to a programme you have to request.
Source: j3l.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Vieille Ville, Delémont
- Organiser
- Syndicat d'Initiative de la Région de Delémont (SIRD)
This market does not have a square, it has an old town: the organiser spreads it across the whole Vieille Ville and has recently carved out a zone just for food and drink.
Good to know- As of 15.09.2026 the organiser has published nothing for 2026. The 2025 edition ran from 12 to 14 December (Fri 14:00–21:00, Sat 10:00–21:00, Sun 10:00–19:00) – that is last year's state and expressly not a 2026 date.
Everything on Delémont · Vieille Ville→
Source: delemontregion.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Start
- 15:01
- Meeting point
- Rue du Collège · Rue de la Promenade · Rue du Progrès · Avenue de la Gare · Grand-Rue · Rue de la Place d'Armes
- Destination
- Place Longereuse
- Organiser
- Association Carnavallon
In 1978 the Fleurier carnival was the first and only one in the canton of Neuchâtel. The parades don't start on the hour, but at 3.01 pm.
Source: carnavallon.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindehaus Glarus
- Organiser
- Gestaltungspädagogin Fabia Hadorn mit Team, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirchgemeinde Glarus-Riedern
It is not the parish that dips candles here but a design educator with her own team — the parish provides the room and backs the event. She is thus the only individual named as the holder of a candle-dipping event in this survey — everywhere else the field carries a parish, an association, a centre or a company.
Good to know- As of 12 September 2026 the 2026 date is not published — and here that is provable, not assumed: the parish keeps its agenda gap-free through the end of December 2026 (down to individual choir rehearsals), and no candle dipping appears in it. The entry for the 2022 edition was, according to the same agenda, put online on 14 October — about six weeks before the event. So it is not too late, it is too early.
- Published structure of earlier editions, no guarantee for 2026: price CHF 2.50 per 100 g, children under 12 accompanied by an adult, no registration needed, refreshment corner with cake, fruit, coffee and syrup; extra dates are possible for closed groups.
- The address is deliberately given without a street: the parish lists Zollhausstrasse 1 as its own address, while the 2022 announcement named the youth cellar at Gerichtshausstrasse 55. We treat neither as settled until the organiser publishes 2026.
Source: reformiert-glarus.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. The Frauen Menzingen run the candle dipping in the Sprützehüsli; as of 13.09.2026 no 2026 date is published. The 2025 edition ran from Friday 28 November to Wednesday 3 December.
- Meeting point
- Sprützehüsli, Neudorfstrasse 14, 6313 Menzingen
- Organiser
- Frauen Menzingen
Six days, six different time windows — from 15:30 to 20:00 on Friday, two afternoons, down to a Tuesday open for just ninety minutes. The organiser charges literally «by weight».
Good to know- Published structure of the 2025 edition, no guarantee for 2026: Fri 28.11 15:30–20:00 · Sat 29.11 14:00–17:00 · Sun 30.11 14:00–17:00 · Mon 1.12 15:30–20:00 · Tue 2.12 15:00–16:30 · Wed 3.12 13:30–16:30.
Source: frauenmenzingen.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Organiser
- Etzelchlaus Rapperswil
Good to know- According to its website the association is «planning the 2026 season»; the date will follow. Aggregator sites already list one — we only adopt it once the organiser publishes it.
Everything on Rapperswil-Jona · Hauptplatz Rapperswil→
Source: etzelchlaus.ch · checked on 6 October 2026
- not published yetRichterswilZH🏊 winter swimming ·Sauna i de Badi Richterswildate still openOpen page
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Organiser
- Sauna i de Badi
A round sauna yurt heated with local wood, right in the lido — and two women's days a week.
Good to know- The website says the sauna will open on 30/31 October «if all goes to plan» — so the start is listed as open. Season ends Sunday 21 March 2027.
- Monday 2.30–10 pm and Thursday 1.30–10 pm women's day; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1.30–10 pm, Saturday noon–10 pm, Sunday 11 am–8.30 pm. Card or Twint only, no cash.
Source: saunaidebadi.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- Reformierte Kirche Sarnen, Ennetriederweg 2, 6060 Sarnen
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Obwalden
Dipping happens inside the church itself, and the guidance comes from the confirmation class — parents may expressly hand their children over into the team's care. In Sarnen a parish and a secular leisure centre each run their own candle dipping, independently of one another — in the same village, a few minutes apart on foot.
Good to know- As of 12 September 2026 the parish has published no 2026 date; its own candle-dipping page still carries the 2021 edition. The 2021, 2022 and 2025 editions are documented — the 2025 one across three days in early December. We carry none of it forward.
- Published structure without a year: price by weight; the Antenne team serves coffee, tea and cake. Everyone is welcome, young and old.
Source: refow.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. Art. 11(b) of the Schaffhausen Rest Day Act (official text in German only; paraphrased): the municipal authority may approve two Sunday openings a year without preconditions (except on major holidays); further ones only where an urgent need is shown (lit. c).
- Set by
- Stadt Schaffhausen
Source: rechtsbuch.sh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. Art. 12(1)(b) RLG SG (official text in German only; paraphrased): at most four Sunday openings per shop per year, approved by the municipality. Para. 3: in Advent from 12:00 to 17:00.
- Set by
- Stadt St. Gallen
St. Gallen counts the four Sunday openings per shop, not per municipality — every business has its own four. A single city-wide date does not legally exist here.
Source: gesetzessammlung.sg.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. The family association has not yet named a date for 2026.
- Organiser
- Familienverein Stein am Rhein
The parade winds through the lanes of the medieval old town – visually one of the finest in the country.
Source: familienverein-steinamrhein.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. every year on the first or second Wednesday in November
- Start
- 18:00
- Meeting point
- Drei Standorte in der Gemeinde
- Destination
- Hinterstädtli Wiedlisbach
- Food and drink
- Tee und Züpfe im Hinterstädtli
- Organiser
- Spielgruppe und Kindergärten Wiedlisbach
Recorded in the canton of Bern's inventory of «living traditions».
Source: lt.bkd.be.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking. The neighbourhood association writes, verbatim, «Der Räbeliechtliumzug 2026 findet am Anfang November 2026 statt» (early November 2026) – without a specific date.
- Assembly
- 17:45
- Start
- 18:00–18:45
- Meeting point
- Schulhaus Entlisberg (Moosstrasse)
- Destination
- Schulhaus Entlisberg (Rückkehr ca. 18:45)
- Food and drink
- Bretzeli und Tee für jedes Kind auf dem Pausenplatz
- Organiser
- Quartierverein Wollishofen
Route: Moosstrasse – Paradiesstrasse – Entlisbergstrasse – Lettenholzstrasse – back to the Entlisberg schoolhouse.
Everything on Zurich · Wollishofen→
Source: wollishofen-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- GZ Leimbach, 8041 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Leimbach
Good to know- As of 05.10.2026 the centre publishes its hours (Tuesday to Friday 14:00–17:30, Saturday 10:00–16:00, Sunday 13:00–17:00) and special evenings such as the «Open Friday» on Friday 27 November (18:00–20:00) — but neither a first nor a last day. Date therefore open; we do not derive it from the special evenings.
Everything on Zurich · Leimbach→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- GZ Riesbach, 8008 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Riesbach
Good to know- As of 05.10.2026 the centre is recruiting volunteers for «Kerzenziehen 2026» and outlines the frame: November and December, Wednesday to Saturday (morning), open to the public afternoons and evenings, school classes on weekday mornings. No first or last day published — date open.
Everything on Zurich · Riesbach→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- GZ Witikon, 8053 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Witikon
Good to know- As of 05.10.2026 still no published candle-dipping offering for 2026 on the community centre's page. Date open.
Everything on Zurich · Witikon→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Meeting point
- GZ Hottingen, 8032 Zürich
- Organiser
- GZ Hottingen
Good to know- As of 05.10.2026 the centre announces the dipping in the tent in Kluspark (Asylstrasse 130, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00) and refers to kerzenziehen-hottingen.ch for dates — which so far only offers sign-up for helpers and school classes. Date open.
Everything on Zurich · Hottingen→
Source: gz-zh.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Start
- 11:00–14:00
- Organiser
- Verein Winterschwimmen Utoquai
Winter swimming under constant lifeguard supervision — run by the club's volunteers at the Seebad Utoquai, which the city sports office entrusts to them.
Good to know- The website gives the season start as 31 October at 11 am, without a year; the season line still reads 2025/26. Open Saturday and Sunday, 11 am–2 pm.
- Introductory winter-swimming courses every Saturday and Sunday at 11.30 am and 12.30 pm, with registration.
Source: winterschwimmen-utoquai.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the date has not been published yet. We keep checking.
- Organiser
- Seebad Enge
A sauna with mountain views and a non-swimmers' pool in the lake — and if you only want to swim, it costs six francs an hour.
Good to know- As of 7 October 2026 the website says the Seebad Enge remains closed until further notice by order of the authorities because of low water levels. No 2026/27 season start is shown.
- Hours per the website: Monday 10 am–11 pm women only, Tuesday to Saturday 10 am–11 pm mixed or women, Sunday 10 am–11 pm mixed. Winter swimming without sauna Monday to Thursday until dusk, unless a waiting list is active.
Source: seebadenge.ch · checked on 7 October 2026
📅 Dates today and over the next seven days
This list is recomputed on every request — it shows what runs today and over the coming seven days.
Confirmed dates from every fixture, in chronological order. Multi-day ones stay listed while they run.
- Sun 20 Sep – Sun 23 May🏊 winter swimmingGenfGEconfirmed
- Wed 7 Oct🏊 winter swimmingLausanneVDconfirmed
- Fri 9 Oct🏊 winter swimmingKüsnachtZHconfirmed
- Sat 17 Oct – Sun 21 Mar🏊 winter swimmingBaselBS
- Sat 17 Oct🏊 winter swimmingStäfaZH
- Sat 17 Oct – Wed 31 Mar🏊 winter swimmingUsterZH
🎯 Densest day: 20 Dec 2026
On 20 Dec 2026, 97 recorded events run at the same time — more than on any other day of the season.
This number can only be computed if you know the start and end date of every single entry: a Christmas market counts on each of its market days, a parade only on one evening. No official register and no search engine keeps that count — we can, because each of the 427 entries is recorded and sourced individually.
⚔️ Overlaps — 235 days when two fixtures meet
On 235 days more than one fixture runs in the same municipality at the same time.
We deliberately do not write «these clash». A Christmas market is open all day, a lantern parade lasts an hour in the evening — whether they really collide is a question of times, and those are far from published everywhere. For 189 of these 235 days at least one time is missing. What we can prove is: on that day both run in the same place.
| First date | Canton | Fixture |
|---|---|---|
| Fri 6 Nov | WinterthurZH | 🏮 turnip lantern parade🕯️ candle dippingtimes published |
| Sat 7 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Sat 7 Nov | ZürichZH | 🏮 turnip lantern parade🕯️ candle dippingtimes published |
| Sun 8 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Mon 9 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Tue 10 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Wed 11 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Thu 12 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Fri 13 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Sat 14 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Sun 15 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Mon 16 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Tue 17 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Wed 18 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Thu 19 Nov | GenfGE | ✨ Christmas market🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Thu 19 Nov | UsterZH | 🕯️ candle dipping🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Thu 19 Nov | ZürichZH | 🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas markettime missing |
| Fri 20 Nov | BernBE | 🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas markettime missing |
| Fri 20 Nov | GenfGE | ✨ Christmas market🏊 winter swimmingtime missing |
| Fri 20 Nov | LuzernLU | 🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas markettimes published |
🗓️ Season calendar — 267 days with something on
Across 267 calendar days the offering is spread very unevenly: the densest week carries a multiple of the quietest.
Each row is a week, each bar a seasonal fixture. Weeks with nothing on do not appear.
- Week of Mon 19 Jan3
- Week of Mon 16 Feb1
- Week of Mon 2 Mar2
- Week of Mon 9 Mar1
- Week of Mon 16 Mar7
- Week of Mon 23 Mar13
- Week of Mon 6 Apr6
- Week of Mon 13 Apr2
- Week of Mon 20 Apr6
- Week of Mon 27 Apr4
- Week of Mon 4 May6
- Week of Mon 25 May1
- Week of Mon 1 Jun1
- Week of Mon 8 Jun1
- Week of Mon 22 Jun1
- Week of Mon 27 Jul1
- Week of Mon 24 Aug1
- Week of Mon 31 Aug2
- Week of Mon 7 Sep3
- Week of Mon 14 Sep1
- Week of Mon 21 Sep13
- Week of Mon 28 Sep7
- Week of Mon 5 Oct9
- Week of Mon 12 Oct12
- Week of Mon 19 Oct30
- Week of Mon 26 Oct23
- Week of Mon 2 Nov54
- Week of Mon 9 Nov88
- Week of Mon 16 Nov193
- Week of Mon 23 Nov340
- Week of Mon 30 Nov420
- Week of Mon 7 Dec392
- Week of Mon 14 Dec344
- Week of Mon 21 Dec144
- Week of Mon 28 Dec53
- Week of Mon 4 Jan31
- Week of Mon 11 Jan21
- Week of Mon 18 Jan26
- Week of Mon 25 Jan21
- Week of Mon 1 Feb49
- Week of Mon 8 Feb51
- Week of Mon 15 Feb27
- Week of Mon 22 Feb25
- Week of Mon 1 Mar21
- Week of Mon 8 Mar21
- Week of Mon 15 Mar21
- Week of Mon 22 Mar14
- Week of Mon 29 Mar10
- Week of Mon 5 Apr7
- Week of Mon 12 Apr7
- Week of Mon 19 Apr7
- Week of Mon 26 Apr7
- Week of Mon 3 May7
- Week of Mon 10 May7
- Week of Mon 17 May7
🗺️ Cantons — 26 with entries, 26 with several fixtures
26 cantons carry at least one entry, 26 of them at least two different seasonal fixtures.
Darker means more entries. The 37 cantons with enough substance of their own have a page per fixture — the rest live in the hub table. How big a canton actually is and where it stands among the others is in our comparison of the Swiss cantons.
Where the traditions live across the country
Source: Swiss season calendar 2026: 395 dates, 97 on one day
📍 Several fixtures — 40 municipalities host more than one
40 municipalities host more than one of the 7 seasonal fixtures; Zürich hosts 7.
The list for anyone who wants to bundle a trip: one place, several fixtures, one weekend. What such a day may cost without hurting is in the 50+ trips under 20 francs.
- ZürichZH35 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🕯️ candle dipping🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival🏊 winter swimming
- BernBE12 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival🏊 winter swimming
- WinterthurZH12 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival
- BaselBS11 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival🏊 winter swimming
- LuzernLU10 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival
- SolothurnSO7 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival
- St. GallenSG5 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day🎭 carnival
- BadenAG4 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🎭 carnival
- RichterswilZH6 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🛍️ Sunday shopping day🏊 winter swimming
- StäfaZH6 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day🏊 winter swimming
- UsterZH6 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day🏊 winter swimming
- SchaffhausenSH3 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- StansNW3 entries🕯️ candle dipping🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market
- BülachZH5 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- DietikonZH5 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- HorgenZH5 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- WallisellenZH5 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- WetzikonZH5 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- GenfGE4 entries✨ Christmas market🏊 winter swimming
- KlotenZH4 entries🕯️ candle dipping🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- LiestalBL4 entries✨ Christmas market🎭 carnival
- AppenzellAI3 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- ChurGR3 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- Glarus NordGL3 entries🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market
- OltenSO3 entries✨ Christmas market🎭 carnival
- SarnenOW3 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- AarauAG2 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- AltdorfUR2 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- BellinzonaTI2 entries🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market
- EinsiedelnSZ2 entries✨ Christmas market🎭 carnival
- FrauenfeldTG2 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- FribourgFR2 entries🎅 St Nicholas🎭 carnival
- GlarusGL2 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
- HergiswilNW2 entries🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market
- Illnau-EffretikonZH2 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade🛍️ Sunday shopping day
- LausanneVD2 entries✨ Christmas market🏊 winter swimming
- MontheyVS2 entries✨ Christmas market🎭 carnival
- Rapperswil-JonaSG2 entries🎅 St Nicholas✨ Christmas market
- Stein am RheinSH2 entries🏮 turnip lantern parade✨ Christmas market
- ZugZG2 entries🕯️ candle dipping✨ Christmas market
🔎 Open dates — 32 entries without a confirmed date
32 of the 427 entries have no date verified at the source yet.
We show them rather than hide them. An entry without a published date is not a flaw in the dataset but the state of play at the organiser — and the honest answer to «when is it this year?» is then «not published yet». This page counts 395 confirmed against 32 open entries and names both figures.
Each of the 427 entries carries its own source with a read date — organiser, municipality or cantonal office. Municipality and canton assignment follows the official municipality register of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO); cantonal and municipal publications are reached via opendata.swiss and the federal authorities via admin.ch. The compilation itself — which fixture runs when and where, and where two of them meet — is an own ConvivaPlus analysis and appears in none of those registers.
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Frequent questions about the Swiss season calendar
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