Chlausemäret Solothurn: the market that pays no attention to the weekend
✓ Checked at the source · as of 8 September 2026
Most Christmas markets put their best days on the weekend. Solothurn's Chlausemäret does not: it always falls on the first Wednesday and Thursday in December – and lasts exactly those two days. Plan it by weekend logic and you do not miss it by accident, you miss it systematically, year after year.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Chlausemäret Solothurn
✓Wednesday, 2 December 2026 – Thursday, 3 December 2026 · 2 days
- Organiser
- Chlausemäret Solothurn
Source: solothurn-city.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
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
- Meeting point
- Altstadt Solothurn
📋 Good to know before you go
- More than 70 market stalls.
- The Samichlaus comes to the square with his donkey and hands out mandarins and peanuts.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
This market's calendar rule is its defining feature – and the reason people from the region miss it for years without understanding why. It does not happen at the weekend. It happens on the first Wednesday and Thursday in December, because that is how it has always been. Reserve your Advent Saturdays for market visits out of habit and you delete Solothurn from your own calendar every year without noticing.
The second difference is the length. The Chlausemäret runs two days, not four weeks. That changes the whole planning logic: with a month-long market a missed evening is a postponement; here it is a missed year. Which is exactly why this market usually appears wrong in overviews – in a list of date ranges, a two-day event looks like a rounding error.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
- 1Diarise the Wednesday, not the SaturdayThe organiser's rule is: first Wednesday and Thursday in December. If you put market visits on weekends on principle, you will never see Solothurn.
🗺️ Nearby markets
The bar above makes the difference visible at a glance: next to its multi-week neighbours the Chlausemäret is a narrow stripe. That is precisely the information a date list does not carry – for markets, length is a property, not an aside.
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.
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❓ FAQ — answered
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The Lozärner Wiehnachtsmärt on Franziskanerplatz only begins on 3 December – two weeks after Zurich, Bern and Zug.
The Einsiedeln Christmas market: it runs for just ten days and is over on 6 December, while elsewhere the season is only getting going.
In the ConvivaPlus Christmas market calendar: 77 confirmed markets with run, opening hours and closed days, filterable by canton and weekday.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For anyone travelling in from further away it is the riskiest market in the overview: two working days, no fallback date, no second chance. If you need flexibility, take one of the multi-week markets – say Basel or Winterthur, open every day for weeks.
When we last checked: The dates follow a rule published by the organiser. We read it on 8 September 2026 – check again shortly before, precisely because it is only two days.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Solothurn →
- ◆The rule beats the date: «first Wednesday and Thursday in December» holds every year – know it and you never have to look it up again.
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Solothurn
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 43 of the 77 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 30 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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Solothurn's Chlausemäret always falls on the first Wednesday and Thursday in December – the only multi-day market in the ConvivaPlus overview that does without a weekend day entirely. Baden also falls on a Wednesday, but lasts only one day.
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