Nidwalden, Switzerland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day falls on Saturday 1 August and is not moved; Assumption Day falls on Saturday 15 August and is not moved; All Saints' Day falls on Sunday 1 November and is not moved, because Switzerland has no statutory substitute days.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 6 weekdays in Nidwalden, 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 Nidwalden in 2026; 6 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

5 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 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 2 holidays
• Sep 22 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 21 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.

• 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 Nidwalden

In Nidwalden, a small Catholic canton on Lake Lucerne, public holidays are set by the Rest Days Act (Ruhetagsgesetz, systematic number 921.1). Article 2 divides the rest days into several kinds, and it is worth reading them in order because only some are counted as holidays on this site.

Sundays come first. Next are the high holidays: Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, the Federal Day of Prayer and Christmas Day. Third come the ordinary feast days, which the act names one by one: New Year's Day, St Joseph's Day on 19 March, Ascension, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption on 15 August, All Saints' Day on 1 November and the Immaculate Conception on 8 December. A municipality may add a further feast day in its own regulation.

For the federal Labour Act, paragraph 2 of that article equates only eight of these with Sundays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints' Day, the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day. Together with 1 August they form the nine holidays totalled on this page. St Joseph's Day is a public rest day in the whole canton, but it is not among the eight, so it is listed as a cantonal holiday and left out of the count.

Four days that readers often expect are not named in the act: Easter Monday, Whit Monday, 2 January and 26 December. They are shown as commonly a day off, since many employers close on them by custom, yet they are not counted. Whether a firm does so is a question of habit or contract.

In 2026 six of the counted days fall on a weekday, because 1 August and the Assumption land on a Saturday and All Saints' Day on a Sunday. That gives 255 working days, and 2027 has 255 as well.

Neighbouring Obwalden shares the same counted days and lists Bruder Klaus in September on top. Schwyz counts St Joseph's Day and shows Epiphany as a customary day off. Lucerne has no St Joseph's Day unless a municipality declares one.

Because municipalities may add feast days by regulation, a local day is possible in any Nidwalden village. These cannot be listed centrally and are not counted.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days: a holiday that falls on a Saturday or Sunday stays there. This applies to the federal holiday of 1 August as well.

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.lexfind.ch/tolv/63042/de
• 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