Sunday shopping in Solothurn: in 2026 the town opens on different Sundays from the canton
✓ Checked at the source · as of 5 October 2026
Anyone following the cantonal calendar to shop in the town of Solothurn in 2026 finds closed shops twice: the canton put its seasonal Sundays on 29 March and 25 October — everywhere except the cantonal capital. There they were 17 May and 27 September. Only in Advent does everyone meet again.
📅 Dates 2026 — when and where
Two events back to back: miss the first and the next one starts on 20 December 2026.
Adventsverkauf Solothurn
✓Sunday, 13 December 2026 · 1 day
- Organiser
- Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung Solothurn
Source: stadtgewerbevereinigung.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
Adventsverkauf Solothurn
✓Sunday, 20 December 2026 · 1 day
- Organiser
- Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung Solothurn
Source: stadtgewerbevereinigung.ch · checked on 5 October 2026
Each bar is a documented trading day. Dark = this city, light = the nearest ones. Sunday trading clusters in Advent — but not all of it does, and two cities on the same date need not share the same hours.
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The rule in 12 cantons — read at the legal source
⚖️ Cantonal rule verbatim
Who designates, how many Sundays are permitted and what hours the act sets — that is the canton's business, not the city's. Hence it sits here rather than beside a single date.
- Counted per
- canton
- At most
- 4
- Authorised by
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- Hours in the law
- 09:00–18:00
§ 7 Abs. 2 WAG: «Sämtliche Geschäfte dürfen an folgenden, maximal vier Sonntagen geöffnet werden: a) an den zwei dem 24. Dezember jeweils vorangehenden Sonntagen (Adventsverkäufe); und b) an maximal zwei vom Regierungsrat zu bezeichnenden Sonntagen, die dem Saisonverkauf dienen (Saisonverkäufe).» (Original German wording — cantonal law is not translated here)
Solothurn · § 7 Abs. 2–4 und § 47 WAG SO (BGS 940.11), § 2 VWAG (BGS 940.12) · Source
🛍️ Shopping on Sunday — what differs here
The canton of Solothurn designates its shopping Sundays for its whole territory — Olten, Grenchen, Balsthal all have the same days. In 2026, for the first time, that is no longer entirely true.
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🗺️ Nearby — other cities
The documented season runs from 25 January 2026 to 27 December 2026; the densest day is 20 December 2026, with 54 entries. On Solothurn's Advent days, 55 other municipalities in our calendar open too. Nationally, the ConvivaPlus Sunday-shopping calendar lists 218 entries from 70 municipalities, 216 of them with a confirmed date.
Of 26 cantons we have read 12 at the legal source; 14 remain open and are named in the radar. All cantonal rules side by side are in the Swiss overview, the Solothurn entries on the canton of Solothurn page.
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❓ Frequent questions — answered
Answers taken from the statutory text and the official publication – no date is carried over from last year.
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On Solothurn's Advent days, 55 other municipalities in our calendar open too.
The Chlausemäret on Friedhofplatz on 2 and 3 December — a market without a single weekend day.
The ConvivaPlus verdict
For Advent, on the other hand, it is simpler than anywhere: the rule is in the law, the year is published and the hours are uniform.
When we last checked: Advent dates and hours from the Stadt- und Gewerbevereinigung Solothurn, the canton's and town's seasonal Sundays from the KMU- und Gewerbeverband Kanton Solothurn, both read on 5 October 2026. The rule in § 7 para. 2 WAG is the legal basis; the law allows 9:00–18:00 (§ 2 para. 1 VWAG), the 11:00–17:00 are a recommendation from the trade.
Check the latest: ConvivaPlus Sunday trading dataset 2026 – Solothurn →
🗓️ At the same time in the canton of Solothurn
How we check
According to the ConvivaPlus calendar, 130 of the 216 confirmed events this season start earlier than this one and 64 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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