Carnival in the canton of Solothurn 2027
Just a single day, and it's over fast: Olten on Sunday, 7 February.
✓ Checked at the source · as of 7 October 2026
Carnival events in the canton of Solothurn
1 place, with dates and a checked source
📅 3 carnival events with date and source
In the canton of Solothurn, Olten opens on Wednesday, 3 February 2027 and Solothurn (Altstadt) celebrates last, until 10 February 2027. 3 of the 3 events carry a date we read at the committee or society.
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- 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: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 October 2026
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- Organiser
- Vereinigte Fasnachtsgesellschaft Solothurn (UNO)
Solothurn celebrates for seven days — from Dirty Thursday up to and including Ash Wednesday, one day longer than Lucerne.
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 October 2026
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- 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: To the organiser's page · checked on 7 October 2026
🎭 Carnival calendar — which year, which day?
Pick a year and the calendar works out every carnival in the canton of Solothurn from the Easter rule the committee publishes itself — up to 2035. Or pick a date and see what's on that day.
🎭 ConvivaPlus Carnival Calendar
Calculated dates follow the Easter rule: Ash Wednesday = Easter Sunday minus 46 days. Cross-checked against the date tables of the committees in Lucerne, Basel, Bern and Solothurn.
- Dirty Thursday
- Thursday, 4 February 2027
- Ash Wednesday
- Wednesday, 10 February 2027
- Basel Morgestraich
- Monday, 15 February 2027, 04:00
Pick a date — the calendar shows every carnival running that day.
3 events 2027, by date
🏘️ 2 municipalities with committee and date
2 of the 3 events in the canton of Solothurn take place in Olten alone. For 1 of them we keep a page of their own.
- Olten — Oltner Fasnacht, FUKO Olten, Wednesday, 3 February 2027 and Sunday, 7 February 2027.
- Solothurn · Altstadt — Solothurner Fasnacht, Vereinigte Fasnachtsgesellschaft Solothurn (UNO), 4 February 2027.
📊 Carnival window in the canton
Every documented event in the canton of Solothurn fits into 8 days: from Olten on Wednesday, 3 February 2027 to Solothurn (Altstadt) on 10 February 2027.
- Solothurn · Altstadt
🗺️ 5 cantons compared
10% of all carnival events we verified across Switzerland fall in the canton of Solothurn: 3 of 30.
For the canton of Solothurn we list 3 events in 2 municipalities, 3 of them with a 2027 date confirmed by the committee. We write no date we have not read at the source.
| Canton | Events | date set | First date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucerne | 5 | 5 | 4 February 2027 |
| Zurich | 5 | 5 | 12 February 2027 |
| Bern | 4 | 4 | 11 February 2027 |
| Basel-Landschaft | 3 | 3 | 14 February 2027 |
| Solothurn | 3 | 3 | 3 February 2027 |
❓ Common questions about the canton
What visitors want to know before heading to the canton of Solothurn — answered from the 3 entries above.
How we check
Every date comes from the organiser's, the municipality's or the canton's own site — never from an aggregator, never copied over from last year. Next to each source is the date we last read it.
Where only a fixed rule is published, such as the eve of St Nicholas' Day, we work out the date and label it “calculated from the fixed rule”. Anything not yet published stays open — we don't guess.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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