Jura, 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 8 weekdays in Jura, one 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 Jura in 2026; 8 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

4 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 18 working days in May, 3 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

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 Jura

Jura is the newest Swiss canton, created in 1979, and its holiday law is correspondingly recent. The Law on official holidays and Sunday rest (Loi sur les jours fériés officiels et le repos dominical, RSJU 555.1) was passed on 31 August 2022 and sets out the list that this page follows.

The law works in two layers. Article 3 lists the official holidays: New Year's Day, 2 January, Good Friday, Easter, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension, Pentecost, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, 23 June, 1 August, the Assumption (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November) and Christmas. Article 4 then picks out the ones assimilated to Sunday for the purposes of the federal Labour Act: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, 1 August and Christmas. Those nine are the holidays totalled on this page.

The other days on the official list, namely 2 January, 23 June, the Assumption and All Saints' Day, are holidays in the cantonal sense only. They are shown in the table so that nobody is surprised by them, but they are listed without being counted, since article 4 does not put them on a par with Sunday. In 2026 the Assumption falls on a Saturday and All Saints' Day on a Sunday.

The 23 June date is the one that sets Jura apart from every neighbour. It is the canton's independence day, commemorating the plebiscite of 1974, and a fixed calendar date, so its weekday changes from year to year; in 2026 it is a Tuesday.

With eight of the nine counted days landing on weekdays in 2026, the canton has 253 working days that year, and 255 in 2027. Compared with Neuchâtel next door, Jura counts more: Neuchâtel adds 1 March for the founding of its republic, whereas Jura adds Easter Monday, Whit Monday and Corpus Christi. Compared with Schaffhausen, which keeps 1 May and the Easter and Whit Mondays but no Catholic feast days, Jura combines both traditions.

Boxing Day is not on the list in article 3, so 26 December is an ordinary working day in the canton even though many firms close. Half days and municipal holidays are not counted here.

Switzerland has no substitute days. A holiday on a Saturday or Sunday simply disappears from the working calendar, and the figures on this page count only holidays that fall on a weekday.

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