Grisons, Switzerland public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved, because Switzerland has no statutory substitute days.
• All 2028 dates are provisional – calculated from the rule, because official dates are published only through 2027.
• In 2028, public holidays fall on 7 weekdays in Grisons, two more than in 2027.

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 2028

8 dates are counted as non-working in Grisons in 2028; 7 of them fall on a weekday.

• provisional calculated from the rule

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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March
• Apr 18 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 22 working days in November
• Dec 19 working days in December, 2 holidays

Compare with the rest of Switzerland

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 4 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Monday 17 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 3 June 2028 to Monday 5 June 2028
• 4 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Tuesday 26 December 2028
• 3 days Saturday 30 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029

Best days to take leave in 2028

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 Grisons

Grisons (Graubünden in German) is a trilingual canton in the south-east of Switzerland, and its working calendar is one of the shortest among the cantons covered on this site. For the days that Grisons treats like Sundays under Article 20a of the federal Labour Act, the SECO table lists eight: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, 1 August, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day (26 December). Those eight are what this page counts. The canton's labour inspectorate points to the cantonal collection of laws, reference 520.100, for the underlying rules on rest days.

Anything beyond those eight is left to the municipalities. The inspectorate tells employers that work on local rest days is regulated by the municipality, so a firm that wants to know whether a particular village keeps an extra day has to ask its own council. No central list of such days exists, and this site does not count them. A worker in a municipality with a local feast day may therefore have one working day fewer than the figures shown.

Compared with its neighbours the canton is marked by what it leaves out. Lucerne, Nidwalden, Obwalden and Schwyz all count Corpus Christi, the Assumption and All Saints' Day; Grisons counts none of them. On the other hand it counts Easter Monday, Whit Monday and St Stephen's Day, which the Nidwalden and Obwalden pages do not. Jura's list of Catholic feasts is longer again.

Good Friday needs a note. SECO places it among the days equated with Sunday for Grisons, and it is one of the high holidays, the handful of days on which quiet is required most strictly. Some data sets, including the holiday library behind part of this site's source data, classify it as optional in Grisons. This page follows the SECO table and counts it.

In 2026, six of the eight counted days fall on a weekday, because 1 August and St Stephen's Day land on a Saturday, which leaves 255 working days; 2027 has 256. Switzerland has no statutory substitute days, so a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday, and 1 August, the only federal holiday, behaves the same way.

Half days are not counted, and neither are customary days off that employers grant without a legal basis. An afternoon off on 24 December or 31 December, where it exists, is a matter for the employment 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.gr.ch/DE/institutionen/verwaltung/dvs/kiga/Documents/Bewilligungspflicht_Nacht_Sonntag.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