Schwyz, Switzerland public holidays 2028

2028 at a glance

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January and is not moved; Saint Joseph's Day falls on Sunday 19 March 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 Schwyz, one 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

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

• provisional calculated from the rule
• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

5 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. 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 21 working days in February
• Mar 23 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
• May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 21 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August, 2 holidays
• Sep 21 working days in September
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 21 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 20 working days in December, 1 holiday

Compare with the rest of Switzerland

Long weekends in 2028

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

• 3 days Friday 14 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028
• 3 days Saturday 23 December 2028 to Monday 25 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 Schwyz

Schwyz, the canton that gave Switzerland its name, has a long calendar of days off, and it is also the page where the gap between custom and law is widest. The canton's personnel office publishes an annual list for its own staff, and the one for 2026 gives fourteen full days: New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), St Joseph's Day (19 March), Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November), the Immaculate Conception (8 December), Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day.

This page does not count all fourteen. It counts 1 August plus the days that the cantonal rest-day rules put on the same footing as a Sunday, as recorded in the federal labour authority's table (SECO), which gives nine in all: New Year's Day, St Joseph's Day, Good Friday, Ascension, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption, All Saints' Day and Christmas Day. In 2026 three of them fall on a weekend, 1 August and 15 August on a Saturday and All Saints' Day on a Sunday, which leaves six weekday holidays and 255 working days from Monday to Friday. The figure is 255 again in 2027.

The other five days on the staff list are Epiphany, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, the Immaculate Conception and St Stephen's Day. They are shown on the page but labelled as commonly a day off, and they are not in the count. State employees do get them, and many private employers follow, but nothing in the table makes them equal to a Sunday for the purposes of the Federal Labour Act.

The 2026 list also marks half days: Schmutziger Donnerstag, the Thursday before Lent in the carnival season, and the afternoons of 24 December and 31 December. A further half day applies only to staff working in the town of Schwyz, for its patronal feast on 11 November. Because that depends on the place of work, it is not counted for the canton as a whole, and none of the half days is added to the holiday total.

St Joseph's Day is the entry that separates Schwyz from its neighbours. Nidwalden lists it as a cantonal holiday without counting it, and Lucerne leaves it to the municipalities. Uri lists Epiphany and St Joseph the same way. At the other end of the scale, Grisons counts eight days and no Catholic feast at all.

Switzerland has no statutory substitute days. When the Assumption or All Saints' Day lands on a weekend, as both do in 2026, it stays there and no weekday is added.

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.sz.ch/public/upload/assets/86157/Feiertage_im_Kanton_Schwyz_fuer_das_Jahr_2026.pdf?fp=1
• 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