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Candle dipping in Pfäffikon SZ: the organiser who knows 2027 better than 2026

✓ Checked at the source · as of 20 October 2026

There is an anomaly in this calendar, and it sits in Pfäffikon: for 2026 exactly one evening is published, for 2027 already eight days in a row. If you want to plan next year, you have a date. If you want to go this year with the children, you have a rule.

Key takeaway
For 2026 a single evening is documented: the «Kerzenziehen Deluxe» on 3 December 2026 from 19:00 at the Reformed parish house in Pfäffikon (Hofstrasse 2a, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ), run by the Evangelical Reformed parish of Höfe. That puts Pfäffikon at rank 49 of 51 sessions with a documented start and end — counting from the bottom. The regular 2026 dipping days are not published; for those the parish gives only its rule, «as a rule in the first week of Advent».
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Candle dipping in Pfäffikon SZ: the organiser who knows 2027 better than 2026

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Kerzenziehen Deluxe im Ref. Kirchgemeindehaus Pfäffikon

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Thursday, 3 December 2026 · 1 day · 19:00

Organiser
Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde Höfe

Source: refkirchehoefe.ch · checked on 20 October 2026

Season in Freienbach · Pfäffikon next to Stäfa, Gossau and Oberägeri

Each bar is a documented run. Dark = this session, pale = the nearest ones. Read a single date and you miss that the neighbouring village has already packed up when the wax here is only just warming.

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✅ Yes — one session runs here on that day.Kerzenziehen Deluxe im Ref. Kirchgemeindehaus Pfäffikon

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🚋 Transport & access with stop

136 metres as the crow flies from the stop, about 2 minutes on foot.

Meeting point
Ref. Kirchgemeindehaus Pfäffikon, Hofstrasse 2a, 8808 Pfäffikon SZ
Nearest stop
Pfäffikon SZ, Hofmatt (BUS) — 136 m as the crow flies
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📋 Good to know before you go

  • «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.

✨ Highlights on site

What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.

Building this calendar quickly teaches you how organisers publish: this year's date sits at the top, next year is an empty field. In Pfäffikon it is the other way round. On the same page, read on the same day, 2026 holds a single evening — and 2027 already eight days in a row, from 28 November to 5 December. This is not a forgotten subpage: it is the same page.

And then there is the door that appears on no date list: according to the organiser the parish's dipping setup is available outside opening hours too for schools and clubs, by arrangement. If you come with a group, you do not depend on the published calendar at all. That is exactly the kind of information an aggregator never carries, because it does not fit into a date column.

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🗺️ Nearby sessions

Pfäffikon is the first and so far only entry for the canton of Schwyz in our dataset — the canton entered the calendar with this page. The first documented day in the canton is therefore this one: 3 December 2026.

Nationwide, 52 of 58 entries carry a documented date, spread over 19 cantons. On the evening of 3 December 2026, 23 other sessions are running outside the municipality — the densest day of the season is 2 December 2026 with 28 wax pots open at once. If you need a plannable afternoon, you will find one around Lake Zurich in Stäfa or in the city of Zurich at Hechtplatz.

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🏆 The ConvivaPlus verdict

The ConvivaPlus verdict

📅 2027 better published than 2026

It only starts at 19:00 – an evening outing.

When we last checked: Only the evening of 3 December 2026 from 19:00 is documented. The regular 2026 dipping days 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». No date from last year is carried forward.

Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Freienbach · Pfäffikon →

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How we check

According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 48 of the 52 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 3 later.

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.

Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.

Written by
Jana Meier
Jana Meier

ConvivaPlus Editor · Family & Day Trips

Writes about day trips, family and local life – honestly assessing what's worth it.

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Researched & sourced · for Switzerland
Sources & methodology3
Researched & source-checked · for Switzerland
As of: 19 October 2026
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Official directory of building addresses — © swisstopo →Coordinates of the venue address, calculated by us
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Service points — opentransportdata.swiss (FOT) →Nearest stop as the crow flies, calculated by us

All information without guarantee. Found an error? → support@conviva-plus.ch

💡Did you know?

An empty field was never proof of empty terrain — only of a search that had never happened there.

Source: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Freienbach · Pfäffikon
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🕯️ Candle dipping · 19 October 2026