Marché de Noël de Monthey: the market whose opening hours change almost daily
✓ Checked at the source · as of 14 September 2026
Monthey publishes its own hours for every single day — for twelve out of thirteen. One day is missing, and the organiser does not write “closed”. It says nothing. Anyone reading this page knows in advance which day.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Open on 12 of the 13 calendar days – in between, the door stays shut.
Marché de Noël de Monthey
✓Friday, 11 December 2026 – Wednesday, 23 December 2026 · open 12 of 13 days
- Organiser
- Ville de Monthey, Service Culture, Tourisme & Jumelage
Source: noelmonthey.ch · checked on 14 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Where stalls, food and bars close at different times, each window is listed separately.
11/12 December 11:00–22:00 · 13 December 11:00–21:00 · 14/15 December 15:00–21:00 · 17/18 December 15:00–22:00 · 19 December 11:00–22:00 · 20 December 11:00–21:00 · 21–23 December 15:00–21:00
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.
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🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Centre-ville Monthey
📋 Good to know before you go
- For Wednesday 16 December the organiser publishes no opening hours – every other day is listed individually. It does not say "closed", it stays silent: anyone planning to come on that particular day should check first.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
Most Christmas markets publish a rule: “daily from X to Y”. Monthey publishes a timetable instead — day by day, with seven different windows across two weeks. 11/12 December 11:00–22:00, 13 December 11:00–21:00, 14/15 December 15:00–21:00, 17/18 December 15:00–22:00, 19 December 11:00–22:00, 20 December 11:00–21:00 and 21–23 December 15:00–21:00.
Turn that into “daily from 11:00” — as every overview forced to average must — and on a weekday you stand four hours early in front of closed chalets. That is no trifle but the commonest way to lose an afternoon. It is precisely why we list the windows individually instead of folding them into a convenient span.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
In Monthey the clock is the real information — and it is given separately for every single day.
- 1The municipality is the sourceThe organiser is the Ville de Monthey; our details come from noelmonthey.ch, source read on 14 September 2026. That is an official first-hand source, not a tourism portal.
🗺️ Nearby markets
Monthey belongs to the later half — it starts on the third Advent weekend and runs to the eve of Christmas Eve. The ConvivaPlus Christmas market overview lists 78 markets with a documented run; the season goes from 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
In the canton of Valais the overview lists two markets, and both are long: Sion starts earlier and runs to the same day, Monthey joins a week later. They are about half an hour apart and overlap for almost two weeks — which leaves the Lower Valais covered continuously in December. The same weekend as Monthey also sees Murten and Schaffhausen begin.
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Exactly that — and no more. It does not mean “closed” and it does not mean “open”.
Because they follow their audience: at weekends families come during the day, on weekdays workers come in the evening. Monthey applies that consistently — and thereby makes every averaged figure in third-party listings wrong.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For the Lower Valais, Monthey is the second long market alongside Sion — twelve days, a town-centre setting, and almost two weeks running in parallel with its neighbour. If you want to do both in one day, you can: half an hour separates them.
The caveat is the clock, and it is a serious one.
When we last checked: Run, the seven time windows, venue and organiser come from noelmonthey.ch, the Ville de Monthey's site, source read on 14 September 2026. For Wednesday 16 December no hours were published there; we record that day as unknown and NOT as closed — the source says nothing about it. The organiser gives no chalet count; we therefore quote none.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Monthey →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Valais
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 67 of the 78 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 8 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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The comfortable solution would be to enter it as “closed” and deliver a tidy table.
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