Schaffhausen, Switzerland public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• National Day falls on Saturday 1 August 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 Schaffhausen, 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 Schaffhausen 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 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 18 working days in May, 3 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
• 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 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.

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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 Schaffhausen

Schaffhausen, the canton on the northern side of the Rhine, has one of the plainest holiday lists in German-speaking Switzerland. Its Rest Days and Shop Closing Act (Ruhetagsgesetz) names the public rest days as Sundays and nine named holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension, Whit Monday, 1 August, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. All nine are counted on this page, and the federal labour authority (SECO) lists the same set among the days that the canton treats like a Sunday.

Two features follow from that list. First, 1 May is a full public holiday, which many cantons do not offer. Second, no saint's day appears at all. There is no Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints' Day or Immaculate Conception. The act also names the high holidays, which are Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Whit Sunday, the Federal Day of Prayer and Christmas Day; they carry extra limits on sport and public events rather than extra days off.

The reasoning for the count is simple here: every day the canton names as a rest day is also a day it equates with a Sunday, so nothing needs to be left in a second list. The only extra entry is 2 January. The statute does not name it, and it is shown as commonly a day off, not counted. Many employers give it away anyway, as they do elsewhere in German-speaking Switzerland, so the real working year may be one day shorter than the figures here.

In 2026 the count removes seven weekdays from the calendar, because 1 August and 26 December fall on a Saturday, and the year keeps 254 working days from Monday to Friday. In 2027 the figure is 256: 1 May and Christmas Day fall on a Saturday, and 1 August and St Stephen's Day on a Sunday, so only five weekdays are lost. Easter Monday is 6 April 2026 and 29 March 2027.

Set beside Lucerne, Nidwalden or Schwyz, the contrast is stark: those cantons keep their Catholic feasts, while Schaffhausen keeps three days that they do not count, namely Easter Monday, Whit Monday and 1 May.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days. A holiday falling on a Saturday or Sunday stays where it is; no weekday is added in its place. The act names no municipal holidays, so none are shown.

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/74361/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