Albisrieden turnip lantern parade: the date that renews itself
Most turnip lantern dates are good for one year. You read them in October, note them down, and next autumn the search starts over. Not Albisrieden: the neighbourhood association parades «always on the first Saturday in November». That is not a listing, it is a rule — and rules do not expire.
📅 Start time, meeting point — and what the organiser actually published
Räbeliechtliumzug Albisrieden
confirmedSaturday, 7 November 2026 · 1 day
- 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.
Source: To the organiser's page · checked on 6 September 2026
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Pick the day you are free — the answer comes from the verified ConvivaPlus dataset, not from a run you have to work out in your head.
| Session | Run | Opening hours | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Räbeliechtliumzug Albisrieden | Sat 7 Nov | 18:00 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
Each bar is a documented evening. Dark = this parade, light = the nearest ones. A parade lasts an hour and often falls on the same evening as another — read only a date and you miss that the next village sets off at the same minute.
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🔎 What sets this parade apart from every other one
In this survey, eight of 22 organisers give a rule instead of — or alongside — a date: «first Saturday in November», «second Wednesday», «the Tuesday after St Othmar». For most of them the rule stands in place of a date, because none is fixed for 2026. Albisrieden is one of two places where both appear: the rule and the documented evening.
That sounds like bookkeeping and is in fact the practical difference between a date and a tradition. A date has to be looked up every year. A rule you note down once — and in January 2028 you still know which Saturday evening to keep free.
The price is on the same page: where to meet, the association does not say. Albisrieden is one of three entries in this survey with neither a published meeting point nor a published destination. A first-time visitor has the date but not the address — and that belongs in an honest answer just as much as the rule does.
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🎯 How not to end up in the dark at the wrong meeting point
In Albisrieden the date is the certain part and the place the open one.
- 1Remember the rule, not the date«Always the first Saturday in November.» 2026: 7 November. 2027: 6 November. 2028: 4 November. Set it as a recurring calendar entry once and the search is over for good.
- 2Ask for the meeting point in advanceThe association publishes neither a starting place nor a destination. A look at zuerich-albisrieden.ch or an email in the week before saves you hunting for lights on the night.
- 318:00 — the standard time of this eveningSeveral Zurich neighbourhoods set off at the same hour that evening. If you are choosing between them, decide by distance, not by programme.
- 4Nothing is published about refreshmentsPunch, soup or nothing at all at the finish: the association's site does not say. Do not set out assuming something is waiting.
🗺️ Where this parade sits in the season
Because Zurich has no city-wide parade, the question of the date comes up again every year here — except where a neighbourhood association commits to a rule, as Albisrieden does. In the canton of Zurich, the ConvivaPlus survey lists 12 parades; nationwide 22 entries, 16 of them with a documented date.
7 November 2026 is one of the densest evenings of the season: besides Albisrieden, 3 further recorded parades set off. The densest evening of all is 6 November 2026 with 5 simultaneous parades — a figure from the ConvivaPlus analysisthat exists only because every date was read at the organiser's own source.
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Frequently asked questions about this parade
Answers from the verified dataset – no date is carried over from last year.
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Related questions from our magazine
Eight of the 22 recorded organisers state a rule — from «the first Saturday in November» to «the Tuesday after St Othmar», by way of «the second Wednesday». For most of them the rule stands in place of a 2026 date; for only two do both appear.
All verified turnip lantern parades →Ask the association, and preferably in the week before — many neighbourhoods put the details online only at the last minute. The survey refuses to write down what is not published: an invented meeting point would be worse than none. In the canton of Zurich, 12 parades are recorded.
All parades in the canton of Zurich →Because the turnip has a season, and the Saturday evening in early November is one of the few slots where children can stay out late without school calling the next morning. That is precisely why the neighbourhoods compete on the same evening instead of taking turns.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
Albisrieden offers the most reliable date in this entire survey — and at the same time one of its thinnest place descriptions. Both have the same cause: the association states what holds for years and stays silent on what it settles at short notice.
The recommendation therefore splits in two. For planning: the best calendar entry there is, because it renews itself. For the evening itself:check the association's page in the week before, or you will be standing in the neighbourhood with a turnip, looking for lights.
Freshness note: Date, time and rule come from the Quartierverein Zürich-Albisrieden (as of 10 September 2026). Meeting point, destination, refreshments and any weather proviso are not published — the 2027 and 2028 dates are calculated from the published rule, not confirmed by the association.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Turnip Lantern Dataset 2026 – Zürich · Albisrieden →
- ◆A rule is worth more than a date. A date expires in twelve months; «always the first Saturday in November» holds until the association decides otherwise. For an occasion you repeat with children every year, that is the difference between searching and knowing — and it costs the organiser nothing at all.
- ◆What is not there, we do not write down. It would be easy to name a plausible meeting point here — every neighbourhood has a school. That is exactly where event listings fail by the dozen: they fill the gap with something likely instead of with a warning. A missing detail is information, not a weakness.
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Albisrieden parades «always on the first Saturday in November» — one of only two recorded parades that publish both the rule and the documented date.
Discussion
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«Immer am erste Samstig im November» — das isch bi üs so sicher wie s Sächsilüüte im April. Mir schrybed de Termin scho im Januar i de Familiekalender, ohni irgendwo nochzluege.
Was mir fehlt: wo genau me sich trifft. Uf de Sitte staht s Datum, aber kein Treffpunkt. Letscht Jahr hemmer eifach de Liechter noglost.
Am glyche Abig laufed no drei anderi Quartier. Wer d Wahl het, sött nöd noch em Ruf goh, sondern noch de Distanz — mit chline Chind isch de Heiweg s Entscheidendi.
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