Appenzell Innerrhoden, 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 7 weekdays in Appenzell Innerrhoden, 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 Appenzell Innerrhoden St Stephen's Day is a holiday only when it does not make three rest days in a row; the Assumption, All Saints' Day and the Immaculate Conception are cantonal rest days that are listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

8 dates are counted as non-working in Appenzell Innerrhoden in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

3 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 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 19 working days in May, 2 holidays
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• 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

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Long weekends in 2026

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

• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Saturday 23 May 2026 to Monday 25 May 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Sunday 27 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

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Leave plans for the whole year

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Countdown

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Calendar and data downloads

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About public holidays in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Innerrhoden is Switzerland's smallest canton by population and a predominantly Catholic one. For the working calendar, the SECO annex to the Labour Act is the reference: it lists New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day as the days the canton has equated with a Sunday. With the federal holiday on 1 August that makes nine days in a year in which 26 December is observed.

Corpus Christi is the day that separates Innerrhoden from Ausserrhoden, which has no such holiday. The more striking point is the middle group. The Assumption on 15 August, All Saints on 1 November and the Immaculate Conception on 8 December are named as cantonal holidays in the canton's rest-day law (Article 2, letter c), yet they are not among the days it has equated with a Sunday. Federal law lets a canton equate only a limited number of days besides 1 August, and these three fall outside that choice. This page therefore shows them in the list as cantonal holidays that are not equal to a Sunday and leaves them out of every total, even though many employers close on those dates.

St Stephen's Day comes with a restriction. In the wording of the annex, it is celebrated only if doing so does not leave three rest days in a row. The count of holidays can therefore change by one from year to year, depending on the weekday of Christmas. In 2026 Christmas Day is a Friday and 26 December a Saturday, so it would make three rest days in a row and is not counted; the year has eight counted dates and 254 working days. In 2027 the day falls on a Sunday and is counted, leaving 255 working days.

One more local detail stays outside the data: St Maurice's Day is a rest day in the inner district only, so it appears neither in the list nor in the totals. A reader planning a long weekend near the district of Appenzell itself should check it with the municipality.

On weekends the rule is the same as elsewhere in Switzerland: a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday stays there and no weekday is added. Church processions and village customs are not counted, and neither are the many half days some employers grant on the afternoon before a feast.

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

How the counts are made