Thun Christmas market: when the stalls have gone, the food and drink stays
✓ Checked at the source · as of 20 October 2026
Most Christmas markets end, and the square is empty. In Thun the market ends on 23 December – and the food and drink carries on for two more days after Christmas.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Thuner Weihnachtsmarkt
✓Friday, 27 November 2026 – Wednesday, 23 December 2026 · 27 days
- Organiser
- Kommission Thuner Weihnachtsmarkt
Source: thuner-weihnachtsmarkt.ch · checked on 20 October 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Where stalls, food and bars close at different times, each window is listed separately.
Market Mon–Sat 11:00–20:00 · Sun 11:00–18:00 · food and drink until 28 Dec: Mon–Sat 11:00–22:00 · Sun 11:00–20:00
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.
- ThunThuner Weihnachtsmarkt
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⚖️ Sunday shopping — market and shops
On 29 November, 13 December and 20 December, Thun also has Sunday shopping – market and shops open on the same Sunday.
Sunday shopping: all dates🚋 Transport & access
- Meeting point
- Rund um das Waisenhaus und den Mühleplatz, Thun
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
The Thun Christmas market committee puts it in large letters on its own site: 2026 is new.
And third: on three Advent Sundays the shops in Thun are open too. To combine the market with Christmas shopping, pick one of those Sundays. We read the organiser's site on 20 October 2026.
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🗺️ Nearby markets
In the canton of Bern the ConvivaPlus overview of Bernese Christmas markets also lists the three markets in the city of Bern, including the Waisenhausplatz in Bern, where markets of their own open after Christmas. The Sunday-shopping days in Thun are in the Bern Sunday-shopping overview.
Nationwide the overview lists 77 markets with documented dates. The densest day is 5 December 2026, with 45 markets open at the same time.
More Christmas markets in the canton of Bern
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The list checked at the sources, with dates and times, is in the cantonal overview.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
Thun is a market for two occasions. The first is an Advent Sunday when market and shops are open together.
When we last checked: Dates and times from the Thun Christmas market committee (thuner-weihnachtsmarkt.ch), read on 20 October 2026. No exhibitor list is published there.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Thun →
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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.
Something missing or changed? A note below is enough; we check it at the source.
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The dates are in our Sunday-shopping overview for the canton of Bern.
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✨ Christmas markets · 20 October 2026