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Sunday shopping in Switzerland 2026: 12 cantonal rules in plain language, 212 documented dates — and the second ceiling no aggregator mentions

The federal government keeps no list. SECO points to 26 cantonal acts, and each says something different: 4 different counting units, between 2 and 4 permitted Sundays, 5 cantons whose law prescribes the opening hours itself. We read 12 of those acts ourselves — article by article, with the date — and checked 217 concrete trading days in 70 municipalities alongside.

Key takeaway
There is no nationwide Swiss Sunday shopping day. Art. 19 para. 6 of the Labour Act lets every canton designate up to four Sundays a year — what becomes of that is cantonal law, and it diverges sharply: in 4 of the 12 cantons we read, the canton designates the days, in 4 the municipality, in 3 even the individual shop — there, no common date exists in law at all. 5 cantons do not use up the federal ceiling of four. Our 212 documented dates for 2026 run from 25 January 2026 to 27 December 2026; on 20 December 2026, 52 of the recorded municipalities open simultaneously.
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Sunday shopping in Switzerland 2026: 12 cantonal rules in plain language, 212 documented dates — and the second ceiling no aggregator mentions
12
cantonal acts read
14 still open, not zero
2–4
permitted Sundays
5 cantons below the federal ceiling
4
counting units
canton · municipality · shop · both
212
documented dates 2026
in 70 municipalities, 7 cantons
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🛍️ Sunday shopping 2026: what actually applies, canton by canton

No nationwide date exists. In 4 of the 12 cantons examined the canton designates the Sundays, in 4 the municipality, in 3 the individual shop — and in 1 both levels sit on top of each other.

The most common mistake is assuming there is «the» Swiss Sunday shopping day. There is not, and for a structural reason: the federal government regulates only the ceiling. Art. 19 para. 6 of the Labour Act allows each canton to designate at most four Sundays a year on which shops may employ staff without a permit; Art. 20 para. 1 additionally forbids more than two consecutive Sundays. Everything else sits in 26 cantonal rest-day acts — and there it diverges, down to the question of who is even counting. The second misconception is the season: the earliest documented trading Sunday in this survey falls on 25 January 2026, a good eight months before Advent. Several cantons explicitly split their four Sundays into two seasonal and two Advent openings — Basel-Landschaft in § 7 para. 2 of its rest-day act, Solothurn in § 13 para. 2 of its implementing act. Between the first and the last documented date lie 337 calendar days.

The number no aggregator carries

For each of the 12 cantons we read, we counted not only how many Sundays are permitted but also who designates them and what second ceiling sits underneath. The result is the ConvivaPlus rest-day index: 4 different counting units, a range from 2 to 4 Sundays, 5 cantons below the federal ceiling, 2 cantons whose Advent dates appear as a rule in the act and can therefore be computed, 5 with hours prescribed by law and 2 that attach a legal condition to one of the days. This analysis can only be built by laying the acts side by side — no list of dates replaces it, and SECO does not compile it.

📅 Every date in 2026 in the verified calendar

212 documented trading Sundays across 70 municipalities, filterable by canton, weekday and evidence status — with the official source for each date.

Every entry names the authorising body and the publication in which we read the date. Where nothing is published for 2026, it says open rather than estimated — an invented trading Sunday costs a car journey and the trust along with it.

Evidence status
217 of 217 events
verified · ConvivaPlus

🕐 Open today? The Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus

Pick canton and date — the Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus answers with open, likely, not designated, or «act not yet read», together with the published hours and the cantonal rule verbatim.

It distinguishes four states, and none of them is guessed: a documented date from an official publication, a date computed from the statutory rule, a Sunday that was not designated — and a canton whose law we have not yet read at source. The last state is not a flaw; it is the most honest answer there is.

Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus

Pick a canton and a date — and see what actually applies that day.

The rule in 12 cantons — read at the legal source

CantonCounted perAt mostHours in the lawAuthorised byLegal basis
AGcanton + municipality3–canton§ 7 Einführungsgesetz zum Arbeitsrecht AG (SAR 961.200)
BLcanton4–canton§§ 7–9 Ruhetagsgesetz BL (SGS 547), Stand 01.12.2019
BScanton213:00–18:00canton§ 4a Abs. 1 RLG BS (SG 811.100) i.V.m. Art. 19 Abs. 6 ArG
BEcanton4 (2)10:00–18:00cantonArt. 19 Abs. 6 ArG i.V.m. Art. 11 Abs. 2 HGG (BSG 935.11)
LUmunicipality2–municipality§ 9 Abs. 4 Ruhetags- und Ladenschlussgesetz LU (SRL 855)
SHmunicipality2–municipalityArt. 11 lit. b Ruhetagsgesetz SH (SHR 900.200), Stand 01.01.2007
SZshop4–canton§ 5 Abs. 3 Ruhetagsgesetz SZ (SRSZ 545.110), vom 21.11.2001
SOcanton4–canton§§ 13, 15 und 16 EG ArG SO (BGS 822.13), vom 13.06.2010
SGshop412:00–17:00municipalityArt. 12 Abs. 1 lit. b und Abs. 3 RLG SG (sGS 552.1)
TGshop408:00–20:00municipality§ 6 Abs. 3 und 4 Gesetz über die Ladenöffnungszeiten TG (LöG, RB 554.11), vom 27.02.2002
VSmunicipality2––18:30municipalityArt. 6 Abs. 2 und 3 Gesetz betreffend die Ladenöffnung VS (SGS 822.20), Stand 01.12.2018
ZHmunicipality4–municipality§ 5 Abs. 3 RLG ZH i.V.m. Art. 19 Abs. 6 ArG
14 cantons we have not read yet

They are deliberately absent from the table. An unread canton is an open question, not a zero — and while even one is missing, none of our pages claims «all cantons».

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🗺️ By canton: where how many Sundays are permitted

We hold dates from 7 cantons; we have read the legal position for 12. The map shows the dates, the table below the cantons with their own page.

A pale canton here does not mean «no Sunday shopping». It means: we hold no individual trading day from there yet. The legal position may well be verified — those are two separate questions, and we do not blend them.

Where the turnips burn across the country

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Source: ConvivaPlus Sunday trading register Switzerland 2026

CantonEventsof which confirmedFirst date
ZurichZH202202Sun 25 Jan
BernBE88Mon 6 Apr
Basel-StadtBS22Sun 13 Dec
SolothurnSO20–
LucerneLU10–
SchaffhausenSH10–
St. GallenSG10–

⚖️ Permitted Sundays — and the five traps beneath them

The date is not the problem; the conditions beside it are. Five patterns recur throughout the acts we examined, and none of them appears in a list of dates.

  1. 1
    The canton releases four — your shop may open on twoThe canton of Bern designates four Sundays. But Art. 11 para. 2 of its Trade and Industry Act permits the individual retail shop only 2 of them, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The cantonal economics office quotes that sentence in the reasoning of its own general ruling. A list of the four dates is therefore a half-truth: on none of the four is everything reliably open.
  2. 2
    Basel opens only in the afternoonIn Basel-Stadt, shops open on the two Advent Sundays from 13:00 to 18:00 — not from nine, not from ten. Anyone standing there at eleven finds a closed door. The hours are set in § 4a of the rest-day act and the labour inspectorate republishes them verbatim every year.
  3. 3
    In three cantons no common date exists at allSt. Gallen, Thurgau and Schwyz count per SHOP, not per town: «at most four per shop and year» (Art. 12 para. 1 lit. b of the St. Gallen act), «to every retail business, opening on at most four Sundays» (§ 6 para. 3 of the Thurgau act). Any page rendering a St. Gallen city date is inventing a fact. Schwyz is the special case within the special case: the canton authorises, counting is per shop — and the act speaks of public REST DAYS, not Sundays, so the four days may equally be public holidays.
  4. 4
    Two cantons wrote their Advent dates into the actSolothurn names «the two Sundays preceding 24 December» in § 16, Basel-Landschaft «the 2nd and 4th Sundays of Advent» in § 9. Nobody republishes those dates each year — they are computed, which is what we do. From 2028 the two rules diverge. A caveat for Basel-Landschaft: § 9 para. 2 expressly allows municipalities to pick one or two OTHER Advent Sundays, so the computed date is an assumption there, not a certainty.
  5. 5
    Valais and Aargau attach conditions to the dayIn Valais one of the two openings must be «connected with a special event such as a public festival, Christmas market, cultural or sporting occasion» (Art. 6 para. 3 of the shop opening act) — that is why your town opens on precisely that day. Aargau does the opposite: its third day, set by the municipality, must expressly NOT fall within Advent (§ 7 para. 2).

🚫 Swiss Sunday rest: why the shop is closed in the first place

Sunday shopping is not a tradition but an exception to a prohibition. The principle sits in the federal Labour Act: nobody may be employed on a Sunday. Everything that opens on a Sunday rests on an exception — and the cantons administer that exception with differing strictness.

This is where most explanations stop too early: Sunday shopping is not a right of the shop, it is a worker-protection matter. What is regulated is not whether a business may unlock its door, but whether it may employ staff. Hence the acts are called «rest-day acts» rather than «shop opening acts», hence the competence sits with labour inspectorates and economics offices — and hence four is a ceiling, not an entitlement. 5 of the 12 cantons we read do not use it up. Basel-Stadt stays at 2, Lucerne likewise — and Lucerne additionally prescribes that one of the two must fall in December (§ 9 para. 4). Schaffhausen authorises two «without preconditions»; beyond that, you must prove an urgent need. To see the same logic outside Sundays, look at the opening hours of Zurich's Sihlpost and those of the post office at Albisriederplatz — same question, different weekday.

🔍 Official sources — and the 14 cantons still missing

The ConvivaPlus-Erhebung has read 12 of the 26 cantonal acts itself. The remaining 14 are not zero but unread — and therefore stand as an open question, not an empty row.

Filling the table would be easy. For every canton, some aggregator quoting numbers could be found within minutes. That is precisely what we do not do: an aggregator is not a legal source, and whoever copies from one inherits its errors along with its confidence. Every row of our legal table carries the article, the reference and the date on which we read it. While even one canton is missing, none of our pages claims «all cantons» — the Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus prints the 14 open cantons by name instead of letting them stay silent. The same holds for dates: 5 of our 217 entries still have no confirmed date for 2026. They appear anyway — as open or as a rule, never as a firm date. And one number we deliberately refuse to turn into a claim about Switzerland: the Zurich labour inspectorate maintains a public 2026 register of 202 notified trading dates across 63 municipalities — in a single canton. All 202 have been in our calendar and radar since 14 September; two of them carry a page of their own. If you know a date, send us the link to the publication, not the date.

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❓ Frequent questions about Sunday shopping in Switzerland 2026

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The places in detail

For 9 places we keep a page of their own: with the full period, the prices, the gaps in the calendar and what the organiser has actually published.

BS
Basel →2 events
BE
Bern →4 events
LU
Luzern →1 event
SH
Schaffhausen →1 event
SO
Solothurn →2 events
SG
St. Gallen →1 event
BE
Thun →4 events
ZH
Winterthur →4 events
ZH
Zürich →4 events

Sunday shopping by canton

A cantonal page appears when the canton can answer the question completely: either because enough verified dates accumulate, or because the act designates the Sundays cantonally, so the date holds for every municipality.

ZH
Sunday shopping in the canton of Zurich 2026 →202 · Sun 25 Jan
BE
Sunday shopping in the canton of Bern 2026 →8 · Mon 6 Apr
BS
Sunday shopping in the canton of Basel-Stadt 2026 →2 · Sun 13 Dec
SO
Sunday shopping in the canton of Solothurn 2026 →2 · –

Cantons without their own page designate either per municipality or per shop — a cantonal page there would be a directory without entries. As soon as the municipal layer exists, the page appears automatically.

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🏆 The ConvivaPlus verdict

The ConvivaPlus verdict on Sunday shopping 2026

12 acts read4 counting unitsRange 2–4212 dates documented

Sunday shopping looks like a question of dates and is in truth a question of law. Three quantities decide whether you find an open door, and the town's name is none of them: who designates — canton, municipality or the individual shop; what second ceiling sits underneath — in the canton of Bern a shop may use only 2 of the four released Sundays; and from what hour the doors open — in Basel-Stadt only from 13:00. Plan by the date alone and you have answered a third of the question. Those three quantities appear on no aggregator, because they do not live in lists of dates but in 26 cantonal acts.

Freshness note: This analysis rests on the 12 cantonal acts we read ourselves in the legal compilations up to 13 September 2026, and on 217 date entries from 70 municipalities. It is expressly not a complete survey of Switzerland: 14 cantons are unread, and the Zurich register alone lists 63 municipalities, of which we have worked up two. Where a municipality may deviate from the cantonal date, our entry is an assumption and marked as one.

Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Sunday trading register Switzerland 2026 →

💎 Golden nuggets
The non-obvious — researched, not copied
  • ◆The canton of Bern releases four Sundays — your shop may open on two. Art. 11 para. 2 limits the individual retail business to 2 of the four designated dates. The economics office quotes the sentence in the reasoning of its own ruling — and yet every aggregator lists the four dates as though everything were open everywhere.
  • ◆Basel-Stadt opens only at 13:00. Not from nine, not from ten: § 4a of the rest-day act fixes 13:00 to 18:00, and the labour inspectorate republishes the hours verbatim every year. Anyone standing there at eleven has lost half the day.
  • ◆In 3 cantons no common date exists. St. Gallen, Thurgau and Schwyz count per SHOP, not per town — «at most four per shop and year». Any page rendering a city date there invents a fact. Schwyz goes further: the canton authorises, counting is per shop, and the act speaks of REST DAYS rather than Sundays — so the four days may be public holidays too.
  • ◆Two cantons wrote their Advent dates into the statute. Solothurn «the two Sundays preceding 24 December», Basel-Landschaft «the 2nd and 4th Sundays of Advent». Nobody has to republish them each year — they are computed. From 2028 the two rules diverge.
  • ◆In Valais a Sunday opening must have an occasion. Art. 6 para. 3 of the shop opening act requires one of the two openings to be «connected with a special event such as a public festival, Christmas market, cultural or sporting occasion». Aargau does the reverse: its third day must expressly NOT fall within Advent.
  • ◆The federal government keeps no list. SECO cites the ceiling of four Sundays and refers everything else to 26 cantonal acts. No official Swiss body compiles these dates — which is exactly why one exists here.
  • ◆A Bernese trading Sunday is sometimes a Monday. Thun lists Easter Monday for 2026, because Bernese law puts public holidays on a par with Sundays (Art. 11 para. 2 speaks of «public holidays»). A guard checking «every date must be a Sunday» would fire here and still be wrong.
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Miriam Frei
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As of: As at 13 September 2026 — 12 cantonal acts and every date publication read individually at the official source.
Zurich (202)
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Sonntagsverkauf Regensdorf — Gemeinde Regensdorf →Regensdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rüschlikon — Gemeinde Rüschlikon →Rüschlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wetzikon — Gemeinde Wetzikon →Wetzikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kappel am Albis — Gemeinde Kappel am Albis →Kappel am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Embrach — Gemeinde Embrach →Embrach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wetzikon — Gemeinde Wetzikon →Wetzikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Affoltern am Albis — Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis →Affoltern am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Fällanden — Gemeinde Fällanden →Fällanden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mönchaltorf — Gemeinde Mönchaltorf →Mönchaltorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Ottenbach — Gemeinde Ottenbach →Ottenbach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Regensdorf — Gemeinde Regensdorf →Regensdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seuzach — Gemeinde Seuzach →Seuzach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Stäfa — Gemeinde Stäfa →Stäfa · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Winterthur — Stadt Winterthur →Winterthur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietikon — Gemeinde Dietikon →Dietikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietlikon — Gemeinde Dietlikon →Dietlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Feuerthalen — Gemeinde Feuerthalen →Feuerthalen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kleinandelfingen — Gemeinde Kleinandelfingen →Kleinandelfingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mettmenstetten — Gemeinde Mettmenstetten →Mettmenstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Pfäffikon ZH — Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH →Pfäffikon ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rafz — Gemeinde Rafz →Rafz · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seegräben — Gemeinde Seegräben →Seegräben · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Turbenthal — Gemeinde Turbenthal →Turbenthal · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uster — Gemeinde Uster →Uster · checked on 14 September 2026
25
Sonntagsverkauf Volketswil — Gemeinde Volketswil →Volketswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wädenswil — Gemeinde Wädenswil →Wädenswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zell ZH — Gemeinde Zell ZH →Zell ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bauma — Gemeinde Bauma →Bauma · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Eglisau — Gemeinde Eglisau →Eglisau · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Geroldswil — Gemeinde Geroldswil →Geroldswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hinwil — Gemeinde Hinwil →Hinwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rümlang — Gemeinde Rümlang →Rümlang · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mönchaltorf — Gemeinde Mönchaltorf →Mönchaltorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Richterswil — Gemeinde Richterswil →Richterswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Fällanden — Gemeinde Fällanden →Fällanden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hedingen — Gemeinde Hedingen →Hedingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Horgen — Gemeinde Horgen →Horgen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Langnau am Albis — Gemeinde Langnau am Albis →Langnau am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rümlang — Gemeinde Rümlang →Rümlang · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Schlieren — Gemeinde Schlieren →Schlieren · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bonstetten — Gemeinde Bonstetten →Bonstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Lufingen — Gemeinde Lufingen →Lufingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rafz — Gemeinde Rafz →Rafz · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wädenswil — Gemeinde Wädenswil →Wädenswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bachenbülach — Gemeinde Bachenbülach →Bachenbülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Buchs ZH — Gemeinde Buchs ZH →Buchs ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dielsdorf — Gemeinde Dielsdorf →Dielsdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Erlenbach ZH — Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH →Erlenbach ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Obfelden — Gemeinde Obfelden →Obfelden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Steinmaur — Gemeinde Steinmaur →Steinmaur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zürich — Stadt Zürich →Zürich · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rüschlikon — Gemeinde Rüschlikon →Rüschlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seuzach — Gemeinde Seuzach →Seuzach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Eglisau — Gemeinde Eglisau →Eglisau · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Illnau-Effretikon — Gemeinde Illnau-Effretikon →Illnau-Effretikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wald ZH — Gemeinde Wald ZH →Wald ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Erlenbach ZH — Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH →Erlenbach ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Feuerthalen — Gemeinde Feuerthalen →Feuerthalen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Fällanden — Gemeinde Fällanden →Fällanden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Steinmaur — Gemeinde Steinmaur →Steinmaur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zell ZH — Gemeinde Zell ZH →Zell ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bachenbülach — Gemeinde Bachenbülach →Bachenbülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietlikon — Gemeinde Dietlikon →Dietlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mettmenstetten — Gemeinde Mettmenstetten →Mettmenstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Richterswil — Gemeinde Richterswil →Richterswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seuzach — Gemeinde Seuzach →Seuzach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Affoltern am Albis — Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis →Affoltern am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Fällanden — Gemeinde Fällanden →Fällanden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hinwil — Gemeinde Hinwil →Hinwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kappel am Albis — Gemeinde Kappel am Albis →Kappel am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Obfelden — Gemeinde Obfelden →Obfelden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Pfäffikon ZH — Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH →Pfäffikon ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Volketswil — Gemeinde Volketswil →Volketswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wädenswil — Gemeinde Wädenswil →Wädenswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bonstetten — Gemeinde Bonstetten →Bonstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Langnau am Albis — Gemeinde Langnau am Albis →Langnau am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rafz — Gemeinde Rafz →Rafz · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bonstetten — Gemeinde Bonstetten →Bonstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Buchs ZH — Gemeinde Buchs ZH →Buchs ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietikon — Gemeinde Dietikon →Dietikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Eglisau — Gemeinde Eglisau →Eglisau · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Embrach — Gemeinde Embrach →Embrach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Freienstein-Teufen — Gemeinde Freienstein-Teufen →Freienstein-Teufen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Langnau am Albis — Gemeinde Langnau am Albis →Langnau am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Lufingen — Gemeinde Lufingen →Lufingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Otelfingen — Gemeinde Otelfingen →Otelfingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rorbas — Gemeinde Rorbas →Rorbas · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seegräben — Gemeinde Seegräben →Seegräben · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Steinmaur — Gemeinde Steinmaur →Steinmaur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Stäfa — Gemeinde Stäfa →Stäfa · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wallisellen — Gemeinde Wallisellen →Wallisellen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Adliswil — Gemeinde Adliswil →Adliswil · checked on 14 September 2026
93
Sonntagsverkauf Bachenbülach — Gemeinde Bachenbülach →Bachenbülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bülach — Gemeinde Bülach →Bülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dielsdorf — Gemeinde Dielsdorf →Dielsdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietikon — Gemeinde Dietikon →Dietikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietlikon — Gemeinde Dietlikon →Dietlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Horgen — Gemeinde Horgen →Horgen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kloten — Gemeinde Kloten →Kloten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Meilen — Gemeinde Meilen →Meilen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Neftenbach — Gemeinde Neftenbach →Neftenbach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Opfikon-Glattbrugg — Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg →Opfikon-Glattbrugg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Otelfingen — Gemeinde Otelfingen →Otelfingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Regensdorf — Gemeinde Regensdorf →Regensdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Schlieren — Gemeinde Schlieren →Schlieren · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seuzach — Gemeinde Seuzach →Seuzach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Turbenthal — Gemeinde Turbenthal →Turbenthal · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uitikon — Gemeinde Uitikon →Uitikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wallisellen — Gemeinde Wallisellen →Wallisellen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wetzikon — Gemeinde Wetzikon →Wetzikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Winterthur — Stadt Winterthur →Winterthur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zürich — Stadt Zürich →Zürich · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Affoltern am Albis — Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis →Affoltern am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bülach — Gemeinde Bülach →Bülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Egg — Gemeinde Egg →Egg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Erlenbach ZH — Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH →Erlenbach ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Feuerthalen — Gemeinde Feuerthalen →Feuerthalen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mettmenstetten — Gemeinde Mettmenstetten →Mettmenstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Niederhasli — Gemeinde Niederhasli →Niederhasli · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Obfelden — Gemeinde Obfelden →Obfelden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Opfikon-Glattbrugg — Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg →Opfikon-Glattbrugg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Ottenbach — Gemeinde Ottenbach →Ottenbach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rümlang — Gemeinde Rümlang →Rümlang · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Schlieren — Gemeinde Schlieren →Schlieren · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Steinmaur — Gemeinde Steinmaur →Steinmaur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zürich — Stadt Zürich →Zürich · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dielsdorf — Gemeinde Dielsdorf →Dielsdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietlikon — Gemeinde Dietlikon →Dietlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hinwil — Gemeinde Hinwil →Hinwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Horgen — Gemeinde Horgen →Horgen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kappel am Albis — Gemeinde Kappel am Albis →Kappel am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kloten — Gemeinde Kloten →Kloten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mönchaltorf — Gemeinde Mönchaltorf →Mönchaltorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Pfäffikon ZH — Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH →Pfäffikon ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Richterswil — Gemeinde Richterswil →Richterswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seegräben — Gemeinde Seegräben →Seegräben · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Thalwil — Gemeinde Thalwil →Thalwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Turbenthal — Gemeinde Turbenthal →Turbenthal · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uitikon — Gemeinde Uitikon →Uitikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Volketswil — Gemeinde Volketswil →Volketswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wallisellen — Gemeinde Wallisellen →Wallisellen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Winterthur — Stadt Winterthur →Winterthur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zell ZH — Gemeinde Zell ZH →Zell ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Adliswil — Gemeinde Adliswil →Adliswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Affoltern am Albis — Gemeinde Affoltern am Albis →Affoltern am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bachenbülach — Gemeinde Bachenbülach →Bachenbülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bonstetten — Gemeinde Bonstetten →Bonstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Buchs ZH — Gemeinde Buchs ZH →Buchs ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bülach — Gemeinde Bülach →Bülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dielsdorf — Gemeinde Dielsdorf →Dielsdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dietikon — Gemeinde Dietikon →Dietikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Dällikon — Gemeinde Dällikon →Dällikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Egg — Gemeinde Egg →Egg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Eglisau — Gemeinde Eglisau →Eglisau · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Embrach — Gemeinde Embrach →Embrach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Erlenbach ZH — Gemeinde Erlenbach ZH →Erlenbach ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Feuerthalen — Gemeinde Feuerthalen →Feuerthalen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Geroldswil — Gemeinde Geroldswil →Geroldswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hinwil — Gemeinde Hinwil →Hinwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Hombrechtikon — Gemeinde Hombrechtikon →Hombrechtikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Horgen — Gemeinde Horgen →Horgen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Kloten — Gemeinde Kloten →Kloten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Langnau am Albis — Gemeinde Langnau am Albis →Langnau am Albis · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Meilen — Gemeinde Meilen →Meilen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mettmenstetten — Gemeinde Mettmenstetten →Mettmenstetten · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Mönchaltorf — Gemeinde Mönchaltorf →Mönchaltorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Neftenbach — Gemeinde Neftenbach →Neftenbach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Niederhasli — Gemeinde Niederhasli →Niederhasli · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Obfelden — Gemeinde Obfelden →Obfelden · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Opfikon-Glattbrugg — Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg →Opfikon-Glattbrugg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Otelfingen — Gemeinde Otelfingen →Otelfingen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Ottenbach — Gemeinde Ottenbach →Ottenbach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Pfäffikon ZH — Gemeinde Pfäffikon ZH →Pfäffikon ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Regensdorf — Gemeinde Regensdorf →Regensdorf · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Richterswil — Gemeinde Richterswil →Richterswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rümlang — Gemeinde Rümlang →Rümlang · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rüschlikon — Gemeinde Rüschlikon →Rüschlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Schlieren — Gemeinde Schlieren →Schlieren · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Seegräben — Gemeinde Seegräben →Seegräben · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Stäfa — Gemeinde Stäfa →Stäfa · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Thalwil — Gemeinde Thalwil →Thalwil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Turbenthal — Gemeinde Turbenthal →Turbenthal · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uitikon — Gemeinde Uitikon →Uitikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uster — Gemeinde Uster →Uster · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Volketswil — Gemeinde Volketswil →Volketswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wallisellen — Gemeinde Wallisellen →Wallisellen · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wetzikon — Gemeinde Wetzikon →Wetzikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Winterthur — Stadt Winterthur →Winterthur · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Wädenswil — Gemeinde Wädenswil →Wädenswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zell ZH — Gemeinde Zell ZH →Zell ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zumikon — Gemeinde Zumikon →Zumikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zürich — Stadt Zürich →Zürich · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Adliswil — Gemeinde Adliswil →Adliswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Buchs ZH — Gemeinde Buchs ZH →Buchs ZH · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Bülach — Gemeinde Bülach →Bülach · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Egg — Gemeinde Egg →Egg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Geroldswil — Gemeinde Geroldswil →Geroldswil · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Opfikon-Glattbrugg — Gemeinde Opfikon-Glattbrugg →Opfikon-Glattbrugg · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Rüschlikon — Gemeinde Rüschlikon →Rüschlikon · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Stäfa — Gemeinde Stäfa →Stäfa · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Uster — Gemeinde Uster →Uster · checked on 14 September 2026
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Sonntagsverkauf Zumikon — Gemeinde Zumikon →Zumikon · checked on 14 September 2026
Bern (8)
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Basel-Stadt (2)
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Solothurn (2)
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Lucerne (1)
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Schaffhausen (1)
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Sonntagsverkauf Schaffhausen — Stadt Schaffhausen →Schaffhausen · checked on 13 September 2026
St. Gallen (1)
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Sonntagsverkauf St. Gallen — Stadt St. Gallen →St. Gallen · checked on 13 September 2026
Context & tradition
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Labour Act (ArG, SR 822.11), Art. 19 para. 6 and Art. 20 para. 1 →The federal norm above it all: at most four Sundays per canton, at most two consecutive.
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Economics Office of the canton of Bern →General ruling 2026 with the four dates and the second ceiling from Art. 11 para. 2.
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Office for Economy and Labour Basel-Stadt →Publication of the two Advent Sundays 2026 including the 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. window.
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Economics Office of the canton of Zurich, labour inspectorate →The canton of Zurich's public municipal register — the notified trading dates, municipality by municipality.

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The canton of Bern releases four Sundays — an individual retail shop may use only 2 of them (Art. 11 para. 2). On none of the four dates is everything reliably open.

Source: ConvivaPlus Sunday trading register Switzerland 2026

Discussion

9 voices from the community

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Beatfrom Riehen

Mir sind letschts Johr am Adväntssunntig um halbi elfi in d Stadt gfahre und häns nöd begriffe – alles zue. Dass Basel erscht ab ein Uhr ufmacht, staht wirklich nirgends, ussert im Gsetz. Merci, dass ihr das grad zoberscht hinschribed.

CP
ConvivaPlus Editorial

Genau dafür gibt es die Rechtsschicht, Beat. § 4a des Basler Ruhetagsgesetzes legt die Zeit von 13.00 bis 18.00 Uhr fest – das Amt für Wirtschaft und Arbeit publiziert sie jedes Jahr wörtlich mit. Eine reine Datumsliste zeigt dir den Sonntag und verschweigt dir den Vormittag.

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Mariannefrom Burgdorf

Als Ladenbesitzerin muss ich das immer wieder erklären: Der Kanton Bern gibt vier Sonntage frei, aber mein Geschäft darf nur an zweien davon öffnen. Die Kundschaft steht dann vor der Tür und ärgert sich über mich, nicht über das Gesetz.

CP
ConvivaPlus Editorial

Das ist Art. 11 Abs. 2 HGG, und es ist der wichtigste Satz dieser ganzen Ader, Marianne. Das Amt für Wirtschaft schreibt ihn in der Begründung seiner eigenen Allgemeinverfügung mit hin – und trotzdem führt jede Sammelseite die vier Daten so, als hätte überall alles offen.

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Jean-Marcfrom Sion

Chez nous, l'un des deux dimanches doit être lié à un événement – fête, marché de Noël, manifestation sportive. Beaucoup de gens croient que la commune choisit librement. Ce n'est pas le cas, c'est écrit dans la loi cantonale.

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Resfrom Wil SG

In St. Gallen hani mal versuecht useztfinde, wänn de Sunntigsverchauf isch. Gits nöd. Jede Lade cha vier Tag im Johr sälber wähle. D Gmeind bewilligt, aber es gmeinsams Datum existiert eifach nöd – das hät mir sogar d Stadtverwaltig so gseit.

CP
ConvivaPlus Editorial

Und darum steht bei uns für St. Gallen kein Datum, sondern die Regel, Res. Art. 12 Abs. 1 lit. b RLG zählt «höchstens vier je Laden und Jahr». Ein Stadtdatum zu rendern hiesse, eine Tatsache zu erfinden – und die kostet dich am Ende eine Autofahrt.

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Chiarafrom Lugano

Sarebbe utile sapere anche per il Ticino. Ho cercato la legge cantonale e non l'ho trovata in dieci minuti — e non sono l'unica.

CP
ConvivaPlus Editorial

Das Tessin gehört zu den Kantonen, die wir noch nicht an der Quelle gelesen haben, Chiara – es steht deshalb ausdrücklich in der Liste der offenen Kantone und nicht als Null. Sobald wir das Gesetz selbst gelesen haben, steht es hier mit Artikel und Datum.

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