Einsiedeln Christmas market: over before the others really begin
✓ Checked at the source · as of 8 September 2026
The Einsiedeln Christmas market combines two traits found nowhere else together: it lasts only ten days and is over in early December – and it is at the same time the only market in this overview whose dates are already fixed for 2027 and 2028. You can plan it two years ahead, but you cannot drop in on it.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
10 days in a row, 2 weekends included.
Einsiedler Weihnachtsmarkt
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Sunday, 6 December 2026 · 10 days
- Organiser
- Einsiedler Weihnachtsmarkt
The only organiser on this list who publishes not just 2026 but through to 2028: 26 November to 5 December 2027 and 1 to 10 December 2028 are already fixed.
Source: einsiedler-weihnacht.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
It starts at 17:00 – later than 29 of the 32 events with a published start time.
Opening Friday 27 November from 17:00 · thereafter 11:00–19:30, on some days until 21:00
🗓️ Open today?
10 days with something on, 4 of them on a Saturday or Sunday – enter your day and the check tells you what is open.
📅 Visit-day check
Pick the day you are free — the answer comes from the verified ConvivaPlus dataset, not from a run you have to work out in your head.
| Session | Run | Opening hours | Date set? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Einsiedler Weihnachtsmarkt | Fri 27 Nov – Sun 6 Dec10 days | Opening Friday 27 November from 17:00 · thereafter 11:00–19:30, on some days until 21:00 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
The nearest stop is 61 metres away as the crow flies.
- Meeting point
- Klosterplatz Einsiedeln
- Nearest stop
- Einsiedeln, Klosterplatz (BUS) — 61 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
📋 Good to know before you go
- It runs for just ten days – the market is over on 6 December, while elsewhere the season is only getting going.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
Ten days. That is this market's entire season – and the reason it is misplaced in almost every overview. By the time the Advent weekends really get going in Zurich, Bern and Basel, Einsiedeln has already been dismantled. Put your market visit on the classic second or third Advent weekend and you arrive reliably too late, without ever learning there had been a run at all.
And this is precisely the market that supplies the antidote: the organiser publishes not only 2026 but the two years after it – 26 November to 5 December 2027 and 1 to 10 December 2028. No other organiser on this list does that. Miss Einsiedeln once and you can plan the next visit with a certainty that exists nowhere else in the field.
What you get in those ten days is the setting: Klosterplatz in front of Einsiedeln Abbey, after dark, with the market in front of it. That is a different scale from a town square – and the reason the brevity does not make this market smaller but more concentrated.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
At Einsiedeln the date decides everything – and it falls earlier than almost everyone assumes.
- 1Late November or early December, or neverThe market lasts only 10 days and is over on 6 December 2026. The second and third Advent weekends, for many the obvious slot, fall entirely outside it.
- 2On the first day, not before 17:00The opening is in the evening: on day one it starts at 17:00; after that the hours are 11:00–19:30, on some days until 21:00. Turn up at midday on opening day and you are too early.
- 3Diarise next year now26 November to 5 December 2027 and 1 to 10 December 2028 are already published. Einsiedeln is the only market in the overview where that is possible.
- 4Come at dusk for the settingKlosterplatz in front of the abbey is the actual reason for the journey. In daylight it is a large square; after dark it is the setting you came for.
📊 Season comparison with nearby markets
Where this market sits in the season — and which neighbour has already closed when it opens.
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.
- EinsiedelnEinsiedler Weihnachtsmarkt
🗺️ Nearby markets
The bar above shows Einsiedeln as one of the earliest and shortest segments of the whole season. If you are touring Central Switzerland in Advent, know the order: Einsiedeln first, Lucerne last – weeks apart, and the two never overlap.
Nationally: the densest day of the 2026 season is 5 December 2026, when 41 of the 69 confirmed markets are open at once. The season spans 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
Markets nearby
❓ FAQ — answered
Answers from the verified dataset – nothing carried over from last year.
People also ask
Related questions from our magazine
The Christkindli Märt in Willisau, on 4 December 2026 – one day after the Lozärner Wiehnachtsmärt on Franziskanerplatz (3 December). Both start while the Einsiedeln season is already running: it ends on 6 December.
The Chlausemäret in Solothurn: always the first Wednesday and Thursday in December, with more than 70 stalls in the old town.
In the ConvivaPlus calendar: 69 confirmed markets with run, opening hours and closed days, filterable by canton and weekday.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For early planners: 44 of the season's 69 events start later than this one. The period spans 2 weekends – miss one and there is still a second.
Freshness note: Organisers change hours and special days at short notice. We read them on 8 September 2026 directly at the source – check again on the day before you travel.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Einsiedeln →
- ◆From the Einsiedeln, Klosterplatz stop it is 61 metres as the crow flies.
- ◆Can't make the date? The nearest place with this event is Lachen, 10 km away.
How we check
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