Christmas markets in the canton of Fribourg 2026
Here it only starts at 12:00 — across Switzerland, 11:00 is usual.
✓ Checked at the source · as of 14 September 2026
Christmas markets in the canton of Fribourg
Tap a place: every time slot and what to know before you go, on one page.
📅 3 markets 2026 with run and closure days
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Opening hours
- Friday 14:00–20:00, Saturday 10:00–20:00, Sunday 10:00–18:00 · on four weekends: 27–29 November, 4–6, 11–13 and 18–20 December · closed in between
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Gruyères, Rue du Bourg
- Organiser
- Office du Tourisme de Gruyères
The market runs along a car-free medieval lane between the town gate and the castle – over 40 craftspeople exhibit, and the hours follow the daylight: Fridays only from the afternoon, Sundays closing earlier.
Good to know- The dates come from the Fribourg tourism organisation. As of 14 September the organiser itself had not yet published a 2026 calendar on noel-gruyeres.ch – it read "Pas d'événements pour le moment".
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Start
- 12:00
- Opening hours
- Wednesday to Friday 12:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00
- Meeting point
- Place du Marché, 1630 Bulle
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël Bulle
Around a hundred chalets on a single square, five days running – and it starts on a Wednesday, ahead of the weekend when most other Fribourg markets first open.
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
This date comes from an events portal, not from the organiser itself.
- Start
- 16:00
- Opening hours
- Friday 16:00–22:00, Saturday 10:00–22:00, Sunday 10:00–17:00
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Murten
- Organiser
- Region Murtensee / Région Lac de Morat
Around 25 craft stalls under the arcades of the old town – small enough to see in one evening, and open until 22:00 on Saturday. Murten is bilingual: here the market is also called Marché de Noël.
Source: fribourg.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours closure days included
A market running «28 November to 24 December» still has days when nothing happens — and at the weekend it often stays open two hours longer. That is exactly what stands here, in the organiser's own words.
Friday 14:00–20:00, Saturday 10:00–20:00, Sunday 10:00–18:00 · on four weekends: 27–29 November, 4–6, 11–13 and 18–20 December · closed in between
Wednesday to Friday 12:00–21:00, Saturday 10:00–21:00, Sunday 10:00–19:00
Friday 16:00–22:00, Saturday 10:00–22:00, Sunday 10:00–17:00
🏘️ 3 municipalities with organiser and run
No two of the 3 municipalities in the canton of Fribourg share the same run — each keeps its own calendar. For 3 of them we keep a page of their own: stall count, closure days and what the organiser actually published.
- Gruyères — Marché de Noël de Gruyères, Office du Tourisme de Gruyères, 27 November 2026.
- Bulle — Marché de Noël de Bulle, Marché de Noël Bulle, 2 December 2026.
- Murten — Weihnachtsmarkt Murten, Region Murtensee / Région Lac de Morat, 11 December 2026.
📍 Location and access of the markets
Two markets in the same town rarely stand in the same place, and «old town» is not a route. Hence every published location separately — the square, the station, the lane.
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Gruyères, Rue du Bourg
- Meeting point
- Place du Marché, 1630 Bulle
- Meeting point
- Mittelalterliche Altstadt Murten
🎒 Entry and weather — what the organiser announces
Is there an entry fee, is there a programme, and what happens in a storm? These are the details an aggregator drops because they differ from market to market — which is exactly why they stand here.
- Good to know
- The dates come from the Fribourg tourism organisation. As of 14 September the organiser itself had not yet published a 2026 calendar on noel-gruyeres.ch – it read "Pas d'événements pour le moment".
📊 Season comparison of the markets in this canton
From the first to the last documented day in the canton of Fribourg, 24 calendar days pass. The bar shows where each market sits in the window, and who has closed before others open.
🗺️ 19 cantons compared
4% of all markets we verified across Switzerland fall in the canton of Fribourg: 3 of 81. The table sets it beside the other 18 cantons with a page of their own — and shows where the calendar grows next.
In the canton of Fribourg we list 3 Christmas markets across 3 towns, 3 of them with a confirmed date range. Every entry is checked individually at its source; where nothing is published, it says open rather than showing an estimate.
| Canton | Events | date set | First date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich | 9 | 9 | 18 November 2026 |
| Bern | 7 | 7 | 19 November 2026 |
| Aargau | 4 | 4 | 28 November 2026 |
| Basel-Landschaft | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| Basel-Stadt | 3 | 3 | 26 November 2026 |
| Fribourg | 3 | 3 | 27 November 2026 |
| Geneva | 3 | 3 | 19 November 2026 |
| Grisons | 3 | 3 | 27 November 2026 |
| Lucerne | 3 | 3 | 20 November 2026 |
| Nidwalden | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| Schaffhausen | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| Schwyz | 3 | 3 | 27 November 2026 |
| Solothurn | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| St. Gallen | 3 | 3 | 26 November 2026 |
| Ticino | 3 | 3 | 19 November 2026 |
| Thurgau | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| Vaud | 3 | 3 | 20 November 2026 |
| Valais | 3 | 3 | 4 December 2026 |
| Zug | 3 | 3 | 19 November 2026 |
❓ Common questions about the canton
Short and sourced: every answer is calculated from the 3 checked entries for the canton of Fribourg, not estimated.
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Fribourg
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.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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