Noël des Montagnes: nine days, nine opening times – and four of them do not start until five
✓ Checked at the source · as of 15 September 2026
Plan the Wednesday like the Saturday and you are seven hours early on an empty square. This market does not have an opening time. It has nine.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Noël des Montagnes
✓Saturday, 12 December 2026 – Sunday, 20 December 2026 · 9 days
- Organiser
- Noël des Montagnes
Source: noeldesmontagnes.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Where stalls, food and bars close at different times, each window is listed separately.
Sat 12.12 10:00–21:00 · Sun 13.12 11:00–18:00 · Mon 14.12 17:00–21:00 · Tue 15.12 17:00–21:00 · Wed 16.12 14:00–21:00 · Thu 17.12 17:00–21:00 · Fri 18.12 17:00–21:00 · Sat 19.12 10:00–21:00 · Sun 20.12 11:00–18:00
Each bar is a documented run. Dark = this market, pale = the nearest ones. Read only a single date and you miss that a neighbouring market has already closed when this one opens.
- La Chaux-de-Fonds · Place du MarchéNoël des Montagnes
- MurtenFR
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📅 Visit-Day Check by ConvivaPlus
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Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every date with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
18 metres as the crow flies to the stop – closer than 20 of the 21 events with a stop on record.
- Meeting point
- Place du Marché, La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Nearest stop
- La Chaux-de-Fonds, Marché (BUS) — 18 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
Most Christmas markets have one opening time and one exception.
The reason is a daily rhythm a market plan knows nothing about. On weekdays nobody comes before the end of work; on Wednesday afternoon the children have no school and the market opens at 14:00; at weekends it runs from the morning. The organiser does not smooth this over — every day is written out separately. We reproduce it exactly, instead of turning it into one convenient average: with four different start times, any simplification would be wrong on at least five of the nine days.
In practice: Saturday is the only day with a morning. With small children exactly two of the nine days are usable. In the evening you have all nine — but four of them only begin when elsewhere half the evening is already over.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
- 1Sunday: 11:00–18:00, early finishBoth Sundays end at 18:00 rather than 21:00 — three hours earlier than any other day. Sunday evening does not exist here.
🗺️ Nearby markets
The Noël des Montagnes takes nine days in December and is the only entry from the canton of Neuchâtel. The ConvivaPlus Christmas market overview lists 78 markets with a documented run; the season goes from 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
In French-speaking Switzerland the large neighbours sit on the lake: Bô Noël in Lausanne and Montreux Noël run for weeks, as does Noël au Quai in Geneva. In the Jura we record two markets, both still without a published date for 2026.
Markets nearby
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – nothing carried over from last year.
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The town's central market square, which gives the Christmas market its location. La Chaux-de-Fonds is laid out on a grid — so the square is equally reachable from every side.
In this overview: Lausanne, Montreux, Geneva, Monthey, Sion and La Chaux-de-Fonds; Delémont and Bure in the Jura are added, both still without a published date for 2026.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
With small children the market shrinks to two usable days: the two Saturdays with a morning. If you are aiming for a weekday afternoon, take the Wednesday — on the other weekdays you will face an empty square.
When we last checked: Run and the nine daily times come from noeldesmontagnes.ch, read on 15 September 2026. The organiser publishes neither a street address nor a postcode; both are absent here. The claim «only market in the calendar in the canton of Neuchâtel» is counted in our own calendar and says nothing about every market in the canton.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – La Chaux-de-Fonds · Place du Marché →
- ◆The Wednesday gives away the calendar behind it: it opens at 14:00, three hours earlier than the other weekdays. That is not chance, it is the region's school-free afternoon. Read opening hours like a timetable and you miss that they are a statement about the audience — and about which days this market exists for families at all.
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 70 of the 78 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 3 later.
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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