Christmas markets in the canton of Zurich 2026
Nowhere in Switzerland starts earlier: Winterthur (Teuschelweiherplatz) opens on Wednesday, 18 November.
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
Christmas markets in the canton of Zurich
6 places, each with dates and a checked source
📅 6 markets 2026 with run and closure days
- Opening hours
- Market: Mon–Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Teuschelweiherplatz, Winterthur
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Cheminée, Slalom-Bar, Kinderhütte
- Organiser
- Winterthurer Wintermarkt
It starts on 18 November, making it the earliest Christmas market on this list – more than two weeks before the first Sunday of Advent.
Good to know- More than 50 festively decorated huts.
Everything on Winterthur · Teuschelweiherplatz→
Source: winterthurerwintermarkt.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Market (non-food): Sun–Wed 11:00–21:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Food and takeaway: Sun–Wed 11:00–22:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–23:00 · Bars and mulled-wine stands: Thu–Sat until 23:30 at the latest · Opening on 19 November from 11:00 · Christmas Eve, 24 December, 11:00–16:00
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofshalle, Hauptbahnhof Zürich
- Organiser
- Polarzauber
A market entirely inside a hall: the station roof covers the stalls, so there is no weather caveat – rain changes nothing here.
Good to know- Free entry.
- It runs through Christmas Eve – unlike most on this list, which already close on 23 December.
- Anyone searching for «Christkindlimarkt Zürich HB» is searching for a name that no longer exists there: the old domain christkindlimarkt.ch now 301-redirects to a third-party event platform. The station hall is run as Polarzauber.
Everything on Zurich · Hauptbahnhof→
Source: polarzauber.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Meeting point
- Sechseläutenplatz, Zürich
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Reservation, auch für Gruppen
- Organiser
- Bellevue Noël
The market on Bellevue has a new name in 2026: after ten years, Schöne Bescherung AG's «Wienachtsdorf» has left the square, which is now run as Bellevue Noël.
Good to know- Anyone still searching for «Wienachtsdorf Zürich» lands on the predecessor's farewell page – the dates there no longer apply.
Everything on Zurich · Sechseläutenplatz / Bellevue→
Source: bellevuenoel.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Opening hours
- Mon–Thu 16:00–21:00 · Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 13:00–22:00 · Sun 13:00–21:00
- Meeting point
- Werdmühleplatz, Zürich
- Food and drink
- Käsefondue im Holzchalet, Reservation möglich
- Organiser
- The Singing Christmas Tree
The only market on the list whose main attraction is a timetable: on the tree-shaped scaffold, a different choir sings every day – on weekdays at 17:30 and 18:30, at weekends also at 14:30 and 15:30.
Good to know- Christmas Party every Saturday from 19:30 to 21:00.
Everything on Zurich · Werdmühleplatz→
Source: singingchristmastree.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
- Start
- 11:00–21:00
- Opening hours
- Monday to Thursday 11:00–21:00 · Friday and Saturday 11:00–22:00 · Sunday 11:00–20:00
- Meeting point
- Niederdorfstrasse · Hirschenplatz · Rosenhof
- Destination
- Grossmünster
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Dörfli im Niederdorf
The oldest Christmas market in the city of Zurich – and the only Zurich market that does not occupy a single square, but runs as a chain of stalls from Niederdorfstrasse via Hirschenplatz to the Grossmünster.
Good to know- In the Rosenhof, children skate for free on a small ice rink; skates can be hired on site for a fee.
Everything on Zurich · Niederdorf→
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-doerfli.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
- Start
- 11:00
- Opening hours
- Daily from 11:00 until late evening; the food stands stay open longer
- Meeting point
- Neumarkt, Winterthurer Altstadt
- Organiser
- Weihnachtsmarkt Winterthur
Held for the 29th time in 2026 and open all seven days of the week – which is not a given: in Rapperswil-Jona, five days fall out in the middle of the period.
Everything on Winterthur · Neumarkt→
Source: weihnachtinwinterthur.ch · checked on 8 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.
Market: Mon–Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–20:00
Market (non-food): Sun–Wed 11:00–21:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Food and takeaway: Sun–Wed 11:00–22:00, Thu–Sat 11:00–23:00 · Bars and mulled-wine stands: Thu–Sat until 23:30 at the latest · Opening on 19 November from 11:00 · Christmas Eve, 24 December, 11:00–16:00
Mon–Thu 16:00–21:00 · Fri 16:00–22:00 · Sat 13:00–22:00 · Sun 13:00–21:00
Monday to Thursday 11:00–21:00 · Friday and Saturday 11:00–22:00 · Sunday 11:00–20:00
Daily from 11:00 until late evening; the food stands stay open longer
🏘️ 2 municipalities with organiser and run
4 of the 6 markets in the canton of Zurich take place in Zürich alone — the rest spread across one other municipality. For 6 of them we keep a page of their own: stall count, closure days and what the organiser actually published.
- Winterthur · Teuschelweiherplatz — Winterthurer Wintermarkt, Winterthurer Wintermarkt, 18 November 2026.
- Zurich · Hauptbahnhof — Polarzauber – Weihnachtsmarkt im Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Polarzauber, 19 November 2026.
- Zurich · Sechseläutenplatz / Bellevue — Bellevue Noël, Bellevue Noël, 19 November 2026.
- Zurich · Werdmühleplatz — Wiehnachtsmärt am Singing Christmas Tree, The Singing Christmas Tree, 19 November 2026.
- Zurich · Niederdorf — Weihnachtsmarkt Dörfli im Niederdorf, Weihnachtsmarkt Dörfli im Niederdorf, 19 November 2026.
- Winterthur · Neumarkt — Winterthurer Weihnachtsmarkt, Weihnachtsmarkt Winterthur, 26 November 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
- Teuschelweiherplatz, Winterthur
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofshalle, Hauptbahnhof Zürich
- Meeting point
- Sechseläutenplatz, Zürich
- Meeting point
- Werdmühleplatz, Zürich
- Meeting point
- Niederdorfstrasse · Hirschenplatz · Rosenhof
- Destination
- Grossmünster
- Meeting point
- Neumarkt, Winterthurer Altstadt
🎒 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
- More than 50 festively decorated huts.
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Cheminée, Slalom-Bar, Kinderhütte
- Good to know
- Free entry. · It runs through Christmas Eve – unlike most on this list, which already close on 23 December. · Anyone searching for «Christkindlimarkt Zürich HB» is searching for a name that no longer exists there: the old domain christkindlimarkt.ch now 301-redirects to a third-party event platform. The station hall is run as Polarzauber.
- Good to know
- Anyone still searching for «Wienachtsdorf Zürich» lands on the predecessor's farewell page – the dates there no longer apply.
- Food and drink
- Fondue-Chalet mit Reservation, auch für Gruppen
- Good to know
- Christmas Party every Saturday from 19:30 to 21:00.
- Food and drink
- Käsefondue im Holzchalet, Reservation möglich
- Good to know
- In the Rosenhof, children skate for free on a small ice rink; skates can be hired on site for a fee.
📊 Season comparison of the markets in this canton
From the first to the last documented day in the canton of Zurich, 37 calendar days pass. The bar shows where each market sits in the window, and who has closed before others open.
🗺️ 19 cantons compared
8% of all markets we verified across Switzerland fall in the canton of Zurich: 6 of 73. The table sets it beside the other 18 cantons with a page of their own — and shows where the survey grows next.
In the canton of Zurich we list 6 Christmas markets across 2 towns, 6 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 | 6 | 6 | 18 November 2026 |
| Aargau | 3 | 3 | 3 December 2026 |
| Basel-Landschaft | 3 | 3 | 28 November 2026 |
| Basel-Stadt | 3 | 3 | 26 November 2026 |
| Bern | 3 | 3 | 19 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 | 2 | 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 6 checked entries for the canton of Zurich, not estimated.
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.
Where only a fixed rule is published, such as the eve of St Nicholas' Day, we work out the date and label it “calculated from the fixed rule”. Anything not yet published stays open — we don't guess.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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