Glarus, Switzerland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day falls on Saturday 1 August and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November 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 Glarus, 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

10 dates are counted as non-working in Glarus in 2026; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

1 more day is a holiday only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2026. It is not counted as a non-working day 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 19 working days in April, 3 holidays
• May 19 working days in May, 2 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, 1 holiday
• 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 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 Glarus

Glarus, a mountain canton governed for centuries by an open-air assembly, has a holiday calendar shaped by a single local anniversary. Its rest-day law (Ruhetagsgesetz, systematic number IX B/21/1) sorts the days into two groups in Article 2. The general holidays are New Year's Day, the Näfelser Fahrt, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 1 August, All Saints' Day and St Stephen's Day. The high holidays are Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, the Federal Day of Prayer and Christmas Day. Paragraph 5 of the same article treats every one of them that does not fall on a Sunday as equal to a Sunday under the federal Labour Act.

That is why Glarus counts ten holidays on this page: the law names thirteen days, and three of them (Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday and the Federal Day of Prayer) are Sundays by nature and add nothing. In 2026 the counted days are New Year's Day, the Näfelser Fahrt, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 1 August, All Saints' Day, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. Three of those (1 August, All Saints' Day and St Stephen's Day) fall on a weekend that year, so the other seven take a weekday each and the working-day total is 254 in 2026. For 2027 it is also 254.

The Näfelser Fahrt is the day that sets Glarus apart. It commemorates the battle of Näfels, fought in 1388, when the Glarners defeated the Habsburg army, and it is held on the first Thursday of April, moved one week later when that Thursday falls in Holy Week. In 2026 Holy Week begins on 29 March, so the Fahrt is on 9 April.

Whit Monday needs a remark. The SECO table leaves it out for Glarus, but the cantonal law names it among the general holidays, so this page follows the law. 2 January, Berchtold's Day, is shown as commonly a day off: the law does not name it, though many employers grant it by custom, and it is therefore listed without being counted.

As in the rest of Switzerland, a holiday on a weekend is simply lost and no weekday replaces it. Municipal festivals and half days 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://gl.lexwork.naz.ch/de/dta/IX-B.21.1.pdf
• 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