Chur Christmas market: two markets, one opening day – and 25 days apart
✓ Checked at the source · as of 8 September 2026
Chur does not have one Christmas market, it has two. They are run by two different associations, they open on the same day – and then their paths diverge completely: one is over after two days, the other runs almost to Christmas. Read «Chur Christmas market from 27 November» and arrive on the second Advent weekend, and you find only half of it.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Two events across 27 days – on 2 of them you can choose between two.
Christkindlimarkt Chur
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Wednesday, 23 December 2026 · 27 days
- Organiser
- IG Christkindlimarkt Chur
Source: christkindlimarkt.info · checked on 8 September 2026
Churer Weihnachtsmarkt
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Saturday, 28 November 2026 · 2 days
- Organiser
- Verein Churer Weihnachtsmarkt
Source: weihnachtsmarkt-chur.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Where stalls, food and bars close at different times, each window is listed separately.
Friday 27.11.2026 14:00–21:00 · Saturday 28.11.2026 11:00–19:00
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🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Bahnhofstrasse, Chur
- Nearest stop
- Chur, Bahnhofplatz (BUS) — 60 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.
The shared opening day is the most misleading fact in the whole Grisons season. Two associations, two markets, one launch day – then 25 days of difference. Read the shared start and conclude «Chur has a Christmas market until Christmas» and you are right about one and completely wrong about the other. This is not an insider detail: it decides whether the trip up from the lowlands is worth it.
In practice: the opening weekend is the only moment in the whole season when both markets run at once. If you visit the Grisons capital once in Advent and want to see both, you have exactly those two days – after that, Bahnhofstrasse remains and the old town is an old town again.
And there is a second consequence worth knowing before you are disappointed: the market that runs long is the one on Bahnhofstrasse – not the one in the medieval lanes. Come for the old-town setting and you must aim for the opening weekend. Come simply for a market and you have time almost until Christmas.
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📊 Season comparison with nearby markets
None of the 3 neighbours in the chart starts earlier.
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.
🗺️ Nearby markets
The bar above shows both Chur markets as separate lanes – same start, completely different length. That is exactly why this page carries both: the aged page we replaced here meant the Chur Christmas market as a whole, and splitting it into two thin pages would carry the confusion forward instead of resolving it.
Nationally: the densest day of the 2026 season is 5 December 2026, when 45 of the 77 confirmed markets are open at once. The season spans 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
More Christmas markets in the canton of Grisons
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❓ FAQ — answered
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In the ConvivaPlus calendar: 77 confirmed markets with run, opening hours and closed days, filterable by canton and weekday.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
Chur is strong for an Advent day out if you pick the date deliberately: the medieval old town is the finer setting, Bahnhofstrasse the more reliable address. If you are travelling up from the lowlands and want the lanes, put the visit on the opening weekend – then you get both in one day.
If you have to stay flexible, you only get one of the two here. If you want a long continuous run, Winterthur or Basel serve you better – there the market is open every day for weeks.
When we last checked: Both runs come from the respective organisers and were read there on 8 September 2026. For the two-day market in particular, check again shortly before the date.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Chur →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Grisons
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 22 of the 77 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 47 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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The finer one is the shorter one: the medieval old town carries the two-day market, Bahnhofstrasse the long one.
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✨ Christmas markets · 8 September 2026