Lausanne Christmas market: the biggest in French-speaking Switzerland doesn't stop at Christmas
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
According to the organiser, Bô Noël counted over 450,000 visitors in its eleventh edition. In 2026 the market runs 20 Nov–31 Dec 2026, until New Year's Eve — making it one of the few still open between Christmas and New Year.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Bô Noël Lausanne
✓Friday, 20 November 2026 – Thursday, 31 December 2026 · 42 days
- Organiser
- Bô Noël Lausanne
Source: bo-noel.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
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🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Mehrere Plätze in der Innenstadt von Lausanne
📋 Good to know before you go
- The market is spread across several squares in the city centre; there is no single location.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
Most Christmas markets pack up on 24 December. Not Bô Noël: it runs until New Year's Eve. Of the 77 verified markets in this overview, only 5 are still open after Christmas — and Lausanne is the only one of them in French-speaking Switzerland. If you have guests over the holidays, this is where mulled wine and chalets are still to be found.
Until early October this page showed no date, because the organiser displayed only the previous year's results.
What you need to know now is the shape — and it sets Lausanne apart from almost all the others: Bô Noël is not a square.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
- 1Hours will follow with the programmeThe organiser has not yet published daily opening hours for 2026; the programme is announced for the coming weeks. We will add them as soon as they are out.
📊 Season comparison with nearby markets
None of the 3 neighbours in the chart ends later.
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
Lausanne belongs to the small group that runs beyond Christmas: 5 of the 77 verified markets are still open after 24 December. Its Vaud neighbours close earlier: Montreux Noël runs until Christmas Eve, as does Geneva.
Nationwide, the busiest day of the 2026 season is 5 December 2026, when 45 of the 77 verified markets are open at the same time. The season runs from 18 November 2026 to 10 January 2027.
More Christmas markets in the canton of Vaud
All of the canton of Vaud →Just across the canton border
❓ FAQ — answered
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Noël au Quai in Geneva: the chalets stay open until 23:00 in good weather – published exactly like that.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
And Lausanne has what Montreux and Geneva do not: the week after Christmas. If you prefer the lake during Advent, go to Montreux or Geneva — and keep Lausanne for the days between the holidays.
When we last checked: Run from bo-noel.ch, source read on 5 October 2026; chalets, squares and visitor numbers according to the organiser for the 2025 edition. Daily hours and the 2026 programme were not yet published. Until early October no date stood here, because the organiser showed only the previous year's results — we carried nothing forward.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Lausanne →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Vaud
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 11 of the 77 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 62 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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✨ Christmas markets · 5 October 2026