Fribourg, 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 Fribourg, one fewer than in 2025.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days: a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday. Fribourg has one list for mainly Catholic municipalities and another for mainly Reformed ones; only the five days on both, 1 August included, are counted, and the days of either list alone are shown but not counted.

Public holidays in 2026

5 dates are counted as non-working in Fribourg 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 Fribourg

Fribourg is a bilingual canton on the language border, and its holiday law reflects a second border, the one between Catholic and Reformed communes. The canton publishes two lists. Which one applies to a worker depends on the commune in which the workplace is situated, not on the worker's own religion. The cantonal administration states that these holidays are assimilated to Sundays and cites Article 20a of the Federal Labour Act as the basis; the Sunday-work rules themselves sit in the cantonal employment law.

In communes with a Catholic majority, which covers most of the territory, the holidays are New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption on 15 August, All Saints on 1 November, the Immaculate Conception on 8 December and Christmas Day. In the Reformed communes, the list is New Year's Day, 2 January, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 1 August, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. The cantonal website names the Reformed communes: Courgevaux, Fräschels, Greng, Kerzers, Meyriez, Muntelier, Murten, Ried bei Kerzers, Ulmiz and Mont-Vully, plus the localities of Flamatt and Sensebrügg in Wünnewil-Flamatt.

Easter Monday, Whit Monday, 2 January and 26 December need a careful reading. In the Catholic part they are not holidays. The canton calls them days that are customarily off, where the employer decides whether to give time off, and says expressly that they are not assimilated to Sundays.

A single page for a canton with two calendars has to choose, and the choice here is the overlap. Five days apply in both parts: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day, 1 August and Christmas Day. Those are counted, which gives 257 working days from Monday to Friday in 2026 and 258 in 2027. The four Reformed-only dates (2 January, Easter Monday, Whit Monday and 26 December) appear in the list with a note that only the Reformed municipalities observe them, and they are not counted.

The four Catholic feasts, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints and the Immaculate Conception, appear in the list of days observed by some, marked as Catholic municipalities only. They are real holidays in the Catholic communes, but they are not part of any total here, so a worker in such a commune has more days off than the figure shown.

Compared with Bern, which has one list across the canton, Fribourg's dual calendar is unusual. A holiday that lands on a weekend is not replaced by a weekday, and communal festivals 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.fr.ch/travail-et-entreprises/employes/jours-feries
• 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