Candle dipping Uster: the only place with two evenings until ten
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
Candle dipping is almost everywhere an afternoon activity: by 5.30pm the pots are cold, and anyone working until seven arrives too late. Uster is the exception – twice, on a Friday.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Two events that overlap on 8 days – on those days you can choose.
Kerzenziehen im Kirchgemeindehaus Zentralstrasse
✓Saturday, 7 November 2026 – Saturday, 21 November 2026 · 15 days
- Organiser
- Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche Uster
Uster has two independent candle-dipping offerings — the Neuwies church and this one. This one also dips for the market: the team makes beeswax candles for sale at the UsterMärt on 26 and 27 November 2026.
Source: refuster.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
Kerzenziehen in der Kirche Neuwies
✓Sunday, 8 November 2026 – Sunday, 22 November 2026 · 15 days
- Organiser
- Kirche Neuwies Uster
Two Friday evenings until 22:00 — the latest dipping time confirmed for 2026 in this survey, and the only place to offer it twice (the Guthirt youth centre in Zurich-Wipkingen reaches it on a single evening; the Schaffhausen dipping ran until 22:30 in 2025 but has not yet published its 2026 hours). Anyone who only has time after work finds a window here that barely exists anywhere else.
Source: kirche-neuwies.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Many workshops open on set weekdays only — so each window is listed separately rather than as one continuous run.
Monday to Friday 14:00–18:00 · Wednesday also 18:00–20:00 · Saturday and Sunday 13:00–18:00
Sun 08.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 11.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 13.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 14.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 15.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 18.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 20.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 21.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 22.11 12:00–15:30
🗓️ Open today?
16 days with something on, 6 of them on a Saturday or Sunday – enter your day and the check tells you what is open.
📅 Visit-day check
Pick the day you are free — the answer comes from the verified ConvivaPlus dataset, not from a run you have to work out in your head.
| Session | Run | Opening hours | Date set? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerzenziehen im Kirchgemeindehaus Zentralstrasse | Sat 7 Nov – Sat 21 Nov15 days | Monday to Friday 14:00–18:00 · Wednesday also 18:00–20:00 · Saturday and Sunday 13:00–18:00 | confirmed |
| Kerzenziehen in der Kirche Neuwies | Sun 8 Nov – Sun 22 Nov15 days | Sun 08.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 11.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 13.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 14.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 15.11 12:00–18:30 · Wed 18.11 14:00–18:30 · Fri 20.11 18:00–22:00 · Sat 21.11 12:00–18:30 · Sun 22.11 12:00–15:30 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
Both venues are at most 257 metres from a stop, as the crow flies.
- Meeting point
- Kirchgemeindehaus, Zentralstrasse 40, 8610 Uster
- Nearest stop
- Uster, Apothekerstrasse (BUS) — 84 m as the crow flies
- Meeting point
- Kirche Neuwies, Neuwiesenstrasse 10, 8610 Uster
- Nearest stop
- Uster (TRAIN) — 257 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
📋 Good to know before you go
- From 2 to 7 November 2026 the dipping is reserved for schools (fully booked). Open to the public from Saturday 7 November, every day until Saturday 21 November.
- Coloured candles and candles of 60 % beeswax are dipped; decorate on your own or with help. Next to it a story tent: Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons 14:00–17:00, stories at 15:00 and 16:00.
- Prices: paraffin wax CHF 3.60/100 g, beeswax CHF 4.60/100 g.
- Nine published opening days across two weekends — in between it is not open continuously.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
The Neuwies church's run looks like two weeks and isn't: Uster does not run continuously but on nine published days across two weekends – in between the pots are cold. And no day is like the next: Sundays from noon, Wednesdays only from 2pm, Fridays only in the evening, the last Sunday over by half past three. Read a run instead of a day calendar here and you will very likely find the door locked.
In return, Uster has two independent offerings, not one. Alongside the Neuwies church, the Reformed Church of Uster runs a second at the Zentralstrasse parish house. After a week reserved for schools it runs from 7 November 2026 to 21 November 2026 — unlike Neuwies, every single day, with Wednesdays until 8pm. And it does not only dip for visitors: the team makes the beeswax candles sold at the UsterMärt there.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
In Uster the individual day decides, not the run. Four points make the difference.
- 1After work: Fridays onlyBoth evening sessions at the Neuwies church fall on a Friday. If you work weekdays, note exactly these two dates – on every other day it closes at 6.30pm.
- 2Nine days, not two weeksThe run spans two weekends, but it is only open on nine published days. In between the pots are cold. The day list is in the dates block above.
- 3The final day ends three hours earlierThe closing Sunday only runs to 3.30pm instead of 6.30pm. Anyone keeping the last day in reserve loses half the afternoon.
- 4Early in the seasonFor early planners: 40 of the season's 47 events start later than this one.
📊 Season comparison with nearby places
Where this session sits in the season — and which neighbour has already closed when it opens.
Each bar is a documented run. Dark = this session, pale = the nearest ones. Read a single date and you miss that the neighbouring village has already packed up when the wax here is only just warming.
🗺️ Nearby sessions
The canton of Zurich has 24 sessions – more than any other canton. Uster falls early in the season: by the time its last day is over, most of the neighbourhood offerings in the city of Zurich have not even started.
Nationally the densest day is 2 December 2026, with 26 sessions running at once; the season spans 23 September 2026 to 3 January 2027. On that densest day Uster is already closed.
More candle dipping in the canton of Zurich
All of the canton of Zurich→❓ FAQ — answered
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In the city of Zurich: three adults' evenings at the GZ Heuried and one at the Lettenkirche with a glass of fizz and live music.
Among others the Zürcher Kerzenziehen on Hechtplatz: daily, Sunday to Thursday until 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays until 9pm. In Uster the Zentralstrasse parish house is open every day from 7 November 2026 to 21 November 2026.
The earliest documented session in the survey starts on 23 September 2026 in Stans.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For working people without free afternoons, Uster is the canton's best address: the two Friday evenings at the Neuwies church, with the paraffin price in the lower third of the national range.
For a spontaneous visit the Neuwies church is awkward. Nine separate days with four different time windows demand a look at the day calendar – and anyone keeping the closing Sunday in reserve loses three hours. If you want to drop in unplanned, go to Zentralstrasse.
Freshness note: The parish has since published the 2026 dates of Uster's second session at the Zentralstrasse parish house; we read them at the source on 5 October 2026. Until then it was flagged here as open rather than carrying last year forward. The basis is the ConvivaPlus-Kerzenzieh-Kalender 2026: every entry was read individually at its source for the ConvivaPlus survey — this ConvivaPlus verdikt rests on nothing else.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus candle-dipping dataset 2026 – Uster →
- ◆Schools first, then everyone: at Zentralstrasse the first week belongs to school classes and is fully booked; the public dips from 7 November 2026.
- ◆From the Uster, Apothekerstrasse stop it is 84 metres as the crow flies.
- ◆In 2026 the first day falls on a Saturday.
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