Marché de Noël de Sion: the market that knows about 8 December
✓ Checked at the source · as of 15 September 2026
In most calendars 8 December is a Tuesday. In Valais it is a statutory holiday — and the Sion Christmas market gives it its own opening hours rather than letting it vanish under “weekday”.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Marché de Noël de Sion
✓Saturday, 5 December 2026 – Wednesday, 23 December 2026 · 19 days
- Organiser
- Marché de Noël de Sion
Source: mdnsion.ch · checked on 15 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Where stalls, food and bars close at different times, each window is listed separately.
Monday to Thursday 14:00–19:00, Friday 14:00–21:00, Saturday 11:00–21:00, Sunday 11:00–19:00 · opening on 5 December 11:00–21:00 · 8 December (Immaculate Conception) 11:00–19:00
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 with stop
75 metres as the crow flies to the stop – closer than 13 of the 21 events with a stop on record.
- Meeting point
- Place du Midi, 1950 Sion · Espace des Remparts, 1950 Sion
- Nearest stop
- Sion, Les Cèdres (BUS) — 75 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.
It sounds like a trifle and it is the difference between an event that knows its canton and one that copies an opening rule. On 15 September 2026 we counted: two of 76 pages in this calendar list 8 December separately — Sion and the Zug market on the Alpenquai. Both are in cantons where the day is a holiday. The remaining 30 do not, and in most cases they have no need to.
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🗺️ Nearby markets
Sion starts on 5 December 2026 and is therefore already open on the densest day of the season. The ConvivaPlus Christmas market overview lists 78 markets with a documented run; the season goes from 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027, and the densest day is 5 December 2026 with 46 markets open at once.
In the canton of Valais the overview lists two markets, and they end on the same day: Sion starts a week earlier, Monthey joins on the third Advent weekend. Both are in the Lower Valais, about half an hour apart, and overlap for almost two weeks. This calendar's other holiday-aware market is in Zug on the Alpenquai.
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By the exceptions. A market that publishes a rule and never mentions a cantonal holiday either has none — or has overlooked it. Listing it separately means it has been considered.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For Valais, Sion is the long market of the season: nineteen days, two squares, and hours that take the cantonal holiday into account.
Midweek the margin is narrow: Monday to Thursday only five hours, ending at 19:00. If you want a long evening, come on Friday or Saturday.
When we last checked: Run, all time windows, both venues and the special hours for 5 and 8 December come from mdnsion.ch, source read on 15 September 2026. “The Immaculate Conception is a statutory holiday in Valais” is a statement about the law taken from the dataset which we have not verified here against the cantonal statute. The claim “two of 76 pages” was counted in the dataset on 14.09.2026. The organiser publishes no stall count.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Sion →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Valais
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 58 of the 78 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 14 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.
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