Candle dipping in the canton of Zug 2026
Earlier than 14 of the 16 other cantons: things kick off on Tuesday, 3 November.
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026 · 1 date still to come
Candle dipping in the canton of Zug
3 places, each with dates and a checked source
📅 3 runs 2026 with start and end
Oberägeri opens the season in the canton of Zug, on Tuesday, 3 November 2026; Zug is the last to close, on 6 December 2026. 2 of the 3 offerings have fixed dates.
The organiser has published this 2026 date themselves.
- 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: To the organiser's page · checked on 13 September 2026
The tourist office has published this 2026 date.
- 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: To the organiser's page · checked on 5 October 2026
The event usually takes place, but the 2026 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: To the organiser's page · checked on 5 October 2026
🕐 1 opening hour and last admission
«14 November to 12 December» helps nobody who has to take an afternoon off. Here are the days it actually opens and the hour you are still let in — several venues close admission a full hour before the door.
Tuesday to Friday 15:00–20:00 · Wednesday from 14:15 · Saturday and Sunday 10:00–18:00
🏘️ 3 municipalities with organiser and run
3 places across 3 municipalities of the canton of Zug. For 3 of them we keep a page of their own: prices, minimum age and the gaps in the middle of the run.
- Oberägeri — Kerzenziehen im Foyer der Hofmatt, Jufrii Oberägeri, 3 November 2026.
- Zug — Kerzenziehen am Wintermarkt im Freiruum, Freiruum Zug, 5 December 2026.
- Menzingen — Kerzenziehen im Sprützehüsli, Frauen Menzingen, not published yet.
📍 Address and access of the venues
Candle dipping rarely happens where you would guess: the parish hall behind the church, a tent on the school grounds, a workshop in a back yard. Hence every published location separately.
- Meeting point
- Foyer der Hofmatt, 6315 Oberägeri
- Meeting point
- Freiruum, Aabachstrasse 16, 6300 Zug
- Meeting point
- Sprützehüsli, Neudorfstrasse 14, 6313 Menzingen
🎒 Age and price — the minimum the organiser asks
Below age five some venues take nobody at all; elsewhere you pay by weight and only learn that at the scales. These details sit on no aggregator page — they sit here, as published.
- 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.
📊 Season comparison of the runs in this canton
The offering in Oberägeri runs 6 days, the one in Zug just 2 — same canton, a season of 34 calendar days. The bar shows where each offering sits in the window, and who has closed before others open.
📭 1 date open — and why they stay listed
1 offering in the canton of Zug has no published 2026 run yet — and stays listed anyway, marked open instead of filled in from last year. We write no date we have not read at the source; the gap is information in itself.
- Menzingen — not published yet — 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.. Source
🗺️ 5 cantons compared
5% of all offerings we verified across Switzerland fall in the canton of Zug: 3 of 58. The table sets it beside the other 4 cantons with a page of their own — and shows where the survey grows next.
In the canton of Zug we hold 3 candle-dipping offerings in 3 places, 2 of them with a confirmed run. Every entry was read individually at its source; where nothing is published, that is shown as open and not as an estimate.
| Canton | Events | date set | First date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | 24 | 20 | 2 November 2026 |
| Bern | 6 | 5 | 11 November 2026 |
| Basel-Stadt | 5 | 3 | 23 November 2026 |
| Aargau | 3 | 3 | 18 November 2026 |
| Zug | 3 | 2 | 3 November 2026 |
❓ Common questions about the canton
Short and sourced: every answer is calculated from the 3 checked entries for the canton of Zug, not estimated.
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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