Holiday Calendar in Switzerland

Friday 1 November - All Saints' Day a holy day of obligation (a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries. And its related observance: Day of the Innocents, The first day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration. - Mexico, Haiti)

Saturday 9 November - Inventors' Day in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Saturday 16 November - Zurich Insurance Group Day (Founded as a Marine Reinsurer)

Monday 25 November - Berner Zibelemärit (A festival of tradition and onions)

Sunday 8 December - Immaculate Conception (public holiday in several countries, a holy day of obligation in others)

Thursday 12 December - The Escalade Festival in Geneva, Switzerland (in honor of the victory of the Protestant Republic over the troops of the Duke)

Tuesday 24 December - Christmas Eve

Wednesday 25 December - Christmas Day

Thursday 26 December - St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace, Austria, Andorra, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland)

Monday 30 December - International Indian Film Day

Tuesday 31 December - Restoration Day in Geneva, Switzerland (Known in French as 'fête de la Restauration de la République', the holiday commemorates the re-establishment of Geneva as a republic on this day in 1813); New Year’s Eve

Wednesday 1 January - New Year’s Day

Thursday 2 January - Berchtold's Day or Berchtoldstag (Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the Alsace); The second day of New Year (a holiday in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Mauritius, Montenegro, New Zealand, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine. New Year Holiday [Albania, Scotland], if it is a Sunday, the day moves to January 3)

Monday 6 January - Three Kings’ Day or Epiphany

Monday 13 January - Hilari Day in Solothurn and surroundings, Switzerland (The Hilari is a fasnachtähnlicher custom. It is celebrated exclusively in the four villages Feuerthalen-Langwiesen, Flurlingen and Laufen-Uhwiesen along the Cholfirst in the north of the canton of Zurich. The Hilari is considered one of the oldest Carnival customs of the canton)

Tuesday 21 January - Anniversary of the founding of the first Baptist church in Switzerland (1525)

Friday 24 January - Vaud Independence Day (Switzerland. The canton of Vaud is the third largest of the Swiss cantons by population and fourth by size)

Friday 14 February - Valentine’s Day

Saturday 1 March - Chalandamarz in Switzerland (is a traditional spring festival in Latin-speaking parts of the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is celebrated on, and named for, the First of March - Calendae Martis - and marks the end of winter); Republic Day in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (It is a day off for the general population. In 1848, Neuchâtel which had been a principality, declared itself a republic and part of Switzerland)

Friday 7 March - World Day of Prayer

Saturday 8 March - Novartis Day

Monday 10 March - Basel Carnival (A festival of color and tradition)

Wednesday 19 March - Saint Joseph's Day or Father's Day (in Andorra, Angola, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Honduras, and Bolivia)

Tuesday 1 April - Poisson d'avril (France, Switzerland, French Community of Belgium)

Thursday 3 April - Näfelser Fahrt in Glarus, Switzerland (The Battle of Näfels was fought on 9 April 1388 between Glarus with its allies the Old Swiss Confederation, and the Habsburgs. It was a decisive Glarner victory)

Friday 18 April - Good Friday

Sunday 20 April - Easter in Western Christianity (Første påskedag in Norway); Easter

Monday 21 April - Sechseläuten in Zurich (the third Monday in April)

Saturday 26 April - International Sculpture Day (Held on the last Saturday of April)

Thursday 1 May - The official spring festival in Switzerland; International Workers’ Day (May Day)

Sunday 11 May - Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Mamertus, the first of the Ice Saints

Tuesday 13 May - Switzerland’s Overshoot Day (date for 2022)

Tuesday 20 May - International HR Day

Thursday 29 May - Christ's Ascension (or Kristi Himmelfartsdag in Norway); Ascension of Jesus

Saturday 31 May - European Siblings' Day

Monday 2 June - Nestlé Day

Friday 6 June - World Transplant Day

Sunday 8 June - Day of the Holy Trinity. Pentecost

Monday 9 June - Whit Monday (celebrated on the day after Pentecost)

Thursday 19 June - Corpus Christi (Held on the Thursday after the Trinity. Monaco, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Venezuela)

Saturday 21 June - Summer Solstice (International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice)

Monday 23 June - Jura Independence Day in Switzerland (canton in northwestern Switzerland, the youngest canton in the Swiss Confederation. Administrative Center - Delemont City)

Sunday 29 June - The festival of insight or the Day of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Malta, Switzerland...); UBS Group AG Day

Thursday 31 July - Swiss National Day celebrations on the Rhine in Basel

Friday 1 August - Switzerland National Day or Swiss National Day (commemorates Switzerland becoming a single unit in 1291)

Saturday 9 August - Street Parade (Held on the second Saturday of August)

Friday 15 August - Feast day of the Assumption of Mary (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu)

Sunday 24 August - St. Bartholomew's Day in the Catholic and Protestant churches

Thursday 11 September - Jeûne genevois in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland (Genfer Bettag. The Thursday following the first Sunday of September)

Saturday 13 September - Knabenschiessen in Zürich City (second Weekend in September + half Monday after)

Sunday 21 September - The Federal Day of Thanksgiving, Repentance and Prayer or Swiss Federal Fast in Switzerland (It is celebrated on the third Sunday in September. The subsequent Monday - Lundi du Jeûne - is a public holiday in the canton of Vaud and unofficial holiday in the canton of Neuchâtel)

Monday 22 September - St. Mauritius Day or Mauritiustag in Appenzell Innerrhoden and Solothurn (Switzerland. According to legend, Mauritius came from Syria. He commanded a Roman legion, which consisted mainly of Christians.); Autumnal Equinox Day

Thursday 25 September - Saint Nicholas of Flüe Day in Obwalden, Switzerland (Saint Nicholas of Flüe was a Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland. He is sometimes invoked as Brother Klaus)

Sunday 28 September - National Coffee Day in Switzerland

Wednesday 1 October - Roche Holding Day

Thursday 2 October - St. Leodegarius Day in Lucerne, Switzerland (the role of Leodegar as patron saint of Lucerne. The festival of St. Leodegar is also considered a guardian angel festival, although there is no direct connection between the saint and the faith in guardian angels)