Sunday shopping in the canton of Solothurn 2026
2 documented trading days in the canton of Solothurn – with the cantonal rule, the statutory hours and an official source per date.
📅 2 dates 2026 with municipality and evidence
Every trading Sunday we read in the official publication for the canton of Solothurn — 0 of them with a confirmed date. Filter by municipality, weekday and evidence status.
The first documented Sunday opening in the canton of Solothurn falls on Sunday, 13 December 2026 (rule, not confirmed).
⚖️ The cantonal rule in the words of the act
Who designates the Sundays, how many are permitted, what hours the act itself fixes — and is there a second ceiling per shop? The canton of Solothurn decides that, not the town, which is why it does not sit with the individual date.
- Counted per
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- At most
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- Authorised by
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- Hours in the law
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The law prescribes no opening hours of its own — the shop's usual hours apply.
Einfuehrungsgesetz zum Arbeitsgesetz, § 13: «Der Regierungsrat bezeichnet maximal vier Sonntage ... Zwei der bewilligungsfreien Sonntage dienen dem Saisonverkauf und zwei dem Adventsverkauf.» § 15: die zwei Saison-Sonntage werden zwei Jahre im Voraus festgelegt und vor Jahresbeginn im Amtsblatt publiziert; Gewerbeverband und Gewerkschaftsbund haben ein gemeinsames Vorschlagsrecht bis zum 31. Oktober. § 16 stellt die Adventsdaten als Regel ins Gesetz — sie sind damit rechenbar.
Solothurn · §§ 13, 15 und 16 EG ArG SO (BGS 822.13), vom 13.06.2010 · Source
🔎 Sunday Radar — is this Sunday open?
The Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus, set here to the canton of Solothurn: type a date and out comes the verdict with hours, statutory rule and source — instead of four municipal sites side by side.
Sunday Radar by Conviva Plus
Pick a canton and a date — and see what actually applies that day.
The law prescribes no opening hours of its own — the shop's usual hours apply.
What the law says: §§ 13, 15 und 16 EG ArG SO (BGS 822.13), vom 13.06.2010 · Source
Next documented date: For this year our dataset documents no further date.
The rule in 12 cantons — read at the legal source
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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🏘️ 1 municipality and their dates
The municipalities of the canton of Solothurn with a documented trading Sunday in 2026. For 1 towns we keep a page of their own with the legal detail.
- Solothurn — Adventsverkauf Solothurn, Regierungsrat des Kantons Solothurn, not published yet.
📭 2 dates open — computed, not published
For these days the competent authority has published nothing. Where the act fixes the date itself we compute it and say expressly that it is a rule and not evidence. Passing a calculation off as proof would be worse than the gap.
- Solothurn — Sunday, 13 December 2026 · rule, not confirmed — § 16 EG ArG SO: «An den zwei dem 24. Dezember vorangehenden Sonntagen dürfen Arbeitnehmende in Verkaufsgeschäften bewilligungsfrei beschäftigt werden.». Source
- Solothurn — Sunday, 20 December 2026 · rule, not confirmed — § 16 EG ArG SO: «An den zwei dem 24. Dezember vorangehenden Sonntagen dürfen Arbeitnehmende in Verkaufsgeschäften bewilligungsfrei beschäftigt werden.». Source
🗺️ 4 cantons compared
The canton of Solothurn carries 2 of the 217 trading days documented across Switzerland. No canton regulates it the same way — and none exhausts the federal ceiling in the same manner.
In the canton of Solothurn we hold 2 trading days across 1 municipalities, 0 of them with a confirmed date. Every entry was read individually in the official publication; where nothing is published for 2026, that is shown as open and not as an estimate.
| Canton | Events | of which confirmed | First date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | 202 | 202 | 25 January 2026 |
| Bern | 8 | 8 | 6 April 2026 |
| Basel-Stadt | 2 | 2 | 13 December 2026 |
| Solothurn | 2 | 0 | 13 December 2026 · rule, not confirmed |
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