Candle dipping Gossau: nine evenings, midweek included
✓ Checked at the source · as of 8 September 2026
In a small municipality a candle-dipping session is usually a weekend. Gossau turns it into nine days straight – and stays open until 8pm on every weekday in between. For the first week of November that is the densest evening coverage in the entire survey.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
9 days in a row, 2 weekends included.
Gossauer Kerzenziehen
✓Saturday, 7 November 2026 – Sunday, 15 November 2026 · 9 days
- Organiser
- Viva Kirche Gossau
Nine days in a row until 20:00, including all the weekdays in between — Gossau has the densest evening coverage of the early November week.
Source: vivakirche-gossau.ch · checked on 8 September 2026
🕐 Opening hours 2026
Usually open until 20:00 – longer than 21 of the 32 events with a published closing time.
Sat 07.11 and Sun 08.11 11:00–20:00 · Mon–Fri 09.–13.11 13:30–20:00 · Sat 14.11 11:00–20:00 · Sun 15.11 11:00–17:00
🗓️ Open today?
9 days with something on, 4 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? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gossauer Kerzenziehen | Sat 7 Nov – Sun 15 Nov9 days | Sat 07.11 and Sun 08.11 11:00–20:00 · Mon–Fri 09.–13.11 13:30–20:00 · Sat 14.11 11:00–20:00 · Sun 15.11 11:00–17:00 | confirmed |
Calculated from the ConvivaPlus dataset — every row with its own source above.
🚋 Transport & access with stop
The nearest stop is 146 metres away as the crow flies.
- Meeting point
- Bertschikerstrasse 6, 8625 Gossau ZH
- Nearest stop
- Gossau ZH, Mitteldorf (BUS) — 146 m as the crow flies
Coordinates © swisstopo · Stops: opentransportdata.swiss (FOT)
📋 Good to know before you go
- According to the organiser, the proceeds go entirely to charitable projects.
- Prices are not published on the organiser's website.
✨ Highlights on site
What sets this candle-dipping session apart is not in its run dates.
The weekday evenings are the point. Most small offerings in the survey open in the afternoon and close at 5.30pm – anyone in work effectively has only the weekend. Gossau stays open until 8pm on all five weekdays, continuously across nine days. In the first week of November no other offering in the survey matches this evening coverage.
The second point is the timing. Gossau sits right at the start of the season – by the time it packs up, most Zurich offerings have not begun. Anyone wanting to be early without driving as far as Winterthur has the chance here; anyone thinking of it in December is four weeks late.
And the third is an omission we do not fill: the Viva Kirche publishes no prices. So we list none – not even a «typical» one. For context: published wax prices in our survey range from CHF 3.– to CHF 5.50 per 100 grams; where Gossau falls within that range only the organiser can say.
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🎯 Practical tips for your visit
Gossau is a village session with unusually long evenings. Three points before visiting.
- 1The weekday evening is a real option hereMonday to Friday 1.30pm to 8pm – at most comparable offerings it is over at 5.30pm. Come after work and you have more than two hours.
- 2The last day is three hours shorterThe closing Sunday only runs to 5pm instead of 8pm. Anyone holding it in reserve should set off earlier.
- 3Ask about prices in advanceNone are listed on the organiser's site. Anyone coming with several children who wants to budget should ask first – the proceeds go entirely to charitable projects according to the organiser.
📊 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. Gossau is among the earliest – only Winterthur-Veltheim and the Kerzenwerk in Zurich's Binz open earlier still.
Anyone who misses the Gossau week will not find another chance in the Zurich Oberland until Wetzikon in December. Nationally the densest day of the season is 2 December 2026, with 26 sessions running at once – by then Gossau is long over.
More candle dipping in the canton of Zurich
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Related questions from our magazine
In Gossau ZH on weekdays until 8pm, in Uster on two Fridays until 10pm and on Zurich's Hechtplatz daily until 8pm or 9pm.
The earliest documented session in the survey starts on 23 September 2026 in Stans.
You pay by weight. Published prices range from CHF 3.– to CHF 5.50 per 100 grams.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
What is missing is the price and the time.
In the canton of Zurich, 15 of the 20 events start later than this one.
Freshness note: The organiser publishes no prices; we enter none. Opening hours were read on 8 September 2026 directly from the Viva Kirche. 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 – Gossau →
- ◆The closing Sunday is three hours shorter: 5pm instead of 8pm. Hold it in reserve and you lose an evening.
- ◆No prices, so no invented ones: the organiser publishes none – instead of a plausible figure we give the range across the whole survey.
- ◆From the Gossau ZH, Mitteldorf stop it is 146 metres as the crow flies.
How we check
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🕯️ Candle dipping · 8 September 2026