Obwalden, 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 Obwalden, 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 Obwalden 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.

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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 Obwalden

Obwalden keeps a holiday that no other canton in this group has: Bruder Klaus, on 25 September, in honour of Nicholas of Flüe, the hermit who is the patron saint of Switzerland and who lived in the Ranft gorge above Sachseln. The canton's Holiday Ordinance (Kantonale Feiertagsverordnung, systematic number 975.21) names it as a general holiday for the whole canton, and the day is a Friday in 2026.

For the count on this page, though, the ordinance is only half the story. Federal law lets a canton place a limited number of days besides 1 August on the same footing as Sundays, and the federal labour authority (SECO) records which days Obwalden has put there. Nine days are counted: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November), the Immaculate Conception (8 December) and Christmas Day. In 2026 three of those nine dates fall on a weekend (1 August and 15 August are Saturdays, 1 November a Sunday), which leaves six weekday holidays and 255 working days from Monday to Friday; 2027 also has 255.

Bruder Klaus is shown in the list below the count, labelled as a cantonal holiday that is not equal to a Sunday. It is a real day off for the canton's offices and many firms, but it is not counted, because the SECO table does not give it Sunday status. A reader who works for the public sector may therefore have one more day off than the figure on this page suggests.

Easter Monday, Whit Monday, 2 January and 26 December are also not in the count. They are listed as commonly a day off: the cantonal text does not name them, yet many employers close anyway, as they do in much of German-speaking Switzerland. Municipal patronal feasts differ from village to village and are left out.

Obwalden's counted list is the same as that of its neighbour Nidwalden. The two cantons differ in the day listed below the line: Nidwalden has St Joseph's Day on 19 March, Obwalden has its September feast. Lucerne, to the north, counts a rest day for St Stephen's Day, which Obwalden does not.

Switzerland has no substitute days. A holiday that falls on a Saturday or a Sunday is not moved to a weekday, so a year with several weekend holidays, like 2026, simply has fewer days off.

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