Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day falls on Saturday 1 August and is not moved; Saint Stephen's Day falls on Saturday 26 December and is not moved, because Switzerland has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Basel-Landschaft, two fewer than in 2025.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days: a public holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday. Only 1 August is a federal holiday; each canton's law makes some other days equal to a Sunday, and these counts include exactly those. Further cantonal rest days, days kept only in some areas and days that many employers give off by custom are listed but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

9 dates are counted as non-working in Basel-Landschaft in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

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 18 working days in May, 3 holidays
• 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, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Switzerland

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 Friday 1 May 2026 to Sunday 3 May 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

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 Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft is the rural canton that surrounds the city of Basel. The SECO annex to the Labour Act lists the days the canton has equated with a Sunday, and the list is conventional for northern Switzerland: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 1 August, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. Nine days are therefore non-working in a year in which none of them falls on a weekend, and this site counts them all as public holidays.

The inclusion of 1 May is the feature most likely to catch a visitor out. Labour Day is not a federal holiday, and most cantons give it no legal status. Basel-Landschaft and its city neighbour recognise it in full. Solothurn, to the south, recognises it only from noon, and the Aargau authorities say explicitly that 1 May is not a statutory holiday there.

Equally relevant is what Basel-Landschaft leaves out. There is no 2 January, which Bern keeps and which several Aargau districts observe too, and none of the Catholic feasts that fill the calendars of the Aargau districts of Laufenburg and Muri. This page therefore has only one group of days: the nine above are counted, and no further date is listed beside them as a day named but not treated as a Sunday.

The Basel Carnival, or Fasnacht, is a major regional event in the first week of Lent, but it is a custom and not a statutory holiday, so it is not counted. Local pay arrangements for such days are a matter for the employer.

Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Monday move with Easter; the other five days are fixed. In 2026 two of the nine dates, 1 August and 26 December, fall on a Saturday, which leaves 254 working days from Monday to Friday; in 2027 four fall on a weekend and the figure is 256. When a holiday falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the canton does not give a weekday in lieu, and this page follows suit. Whether a holiday on a working day is paid depends on the contract.

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