Aarburg leuchtet: a market on two levels and floating lights on the Aare
✓ Checked at the source · as of 20 October 2026
People know the Lichterschwimmen of floating lights from Zurich, just before Christmas on the Limmat. Aarburg has one as early as late November – as the highlight of a Christmas market that lasts a single day.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
A single Saturday – miss it and you wait a year.
Aarburg leuchtet
✓Saturday, 28 November 2026 · 1 day
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- Aarburg leuchtet
Source: aarburg-leuchtet.ch · checked on 20 October 2026
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- Altstadt Aarburg und Festung Aarburg
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this market apart from every other one is not in its run dates.
'Lichterschwimmen' makes people think of Zurich: in mid-December school classes send hundreds of little candle boats from the Stadthausquai onto the Limmat.
Aarburg spreads its market over two levels: down in the little town and up at the fortress. To see both, allow for the climb. This is not a market you walk through in half an hour.
And it lasts one day. Miss the Saturday before the first Advent and you wait a year. The 2026 times are not on the organiser's site yet; we do not carry last year's forward.
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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
In the canton of Aargau the ConvivaPlus overview of Aargau Christmas markets lists Aarburg together with Aarau, Baden and Bremgarten. The season's second Lichterschwimmen is on the Zurich Lichterschwimmen page.
On the same Saturday many markets are open across Switzerland; the densest day of the season is 5 December 2026, with 45 markets open at the same time. 17 of the 77 documented markets last, like Aarburg, exactly one day.
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Among others Aarau, Baden, Bremgarten and Aarburg; the checked list is in the cantonal overview.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
If you only want stalls, Aargau has longer markets, for example Aarau. For the floating lights, Aarburg is the early chance and Zurich the late one.
When we last checked: Date, locations and Lichterschwimmen from the organiser (aarburg-leuchtet.ch), read on 20 October 2026. 2026 times not published.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Christmas market dataset 2026 – Aarburg →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Aargau
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 30 of the 77 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 35 later.
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Two Lichterschwimmen, three weeks apart: Aarburg on the Saturday before the first Advent on the Aare's Woog, Zurich on 17 December on the Limmat.
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✨ Christmas markets · 20 October 2026