Aargau, Switzerland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day falls on Saturday 1 August and is not moved, because Switzerland has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 4 weekdays in Aargau, two fewer than in 2025.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days: a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday. In Aargau the Government sets the holidays district by district, so only New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day, 1 August and Christmas Day hold everywhere and are counted; the district days are listed but not counted, and 1 May is not a holiday in the canton.

Public holidays in 2026

5 dates are counted as non-working in Aargau in 2026; 4 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

8 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. They are not counted as non-working days here.

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 21 working days in January, 1 holiday
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 21 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 20 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 22 working days in June
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November
• Dec 22 working days in December, 1 holiday

Compare with the rest of Switzerland

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 3 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Sunday 5 April 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

Try any budget from 1 to 30 days in the leave planner

Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Aargau

Aargau has no single list of public holidays. Its cantonal act introducing federal employment law (EG ArR, collection number 961.200) leaves the cantonal government to fix the holidays for each district and, in one district, for each municipality. The Office for Economy and Labour summarises the outcome in a leaflet, which says that the listed days are treated like Sundays and that the allocation is binding.

The leaflet and the SECO annex to the Labour Act show several patterns. Aarau, Brugg, Kulm, Lenzburg and Zofingen, together with the municipality of Bergdietikon, keep New Year's Day, 2 January, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and 26 December. The rest of the district of Baden drops 2 January and adds Corpus Christi. Bremgarten, Laufenburg and Muri follow a Catholic calendar built around the Assumption on 15 August and All Saints on 1 November; Laufenburg and Muri add the Immaculate Conception on 8 December and omit St Stephen's Day, which Bremgarten keeps. Zurzach combines 2 January, Corpus Christi and All Saints. In the district of Rheinfelden, six named municipalities follow the Catholic pattern and eight others a mixed one.

What this page counts is the overlap. Four days appear in every pattern: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day and Christmas Day. Add the federal holiday on 1 August and you reach five counted days for 2026, which leaves 257 working days from Monday to Friday, and 258 in 2027. These are the only days that bind every employee in the canton.

The remaining dates are shown in the list, each marked as valid in some districts only, and they do not enter the totals: 2 January, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints, the Immaculate Conception and 26 December. Someone who works in Baden or Laufenburg will therefore have more days off than the total shown here, and should look up the district.

One day is absent from the whole canton. The labour office states that days it does not list, 1 May for instance, are not statutory holidays anywhere in Aargau, so 1 May is neither counted nor listed here.

Compare the neighbours: Basel-Landschaft keeps 1 May and has no 2 January, while Bern marks 2 January and 26 December in every municipality. Aargau does not move a holiday that falls on a weekend, and municipal events are not counted.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.seco.admin.ch/dam/de/sd-web/x5LtHPJdNis5/Anhang-Feiertage-Schweiz-Auszug-ArG-ArGV1-5-SECO-SB-2024-DE.pdf
• https://www.ag.ch/media/kanton-aargau/dvi/dokumente/awa/awa/arbeitnehmerschutz-im-betrieb/feiertage.pdf

How the counts are made