HolidayTallySwitzerland · Canton
Solothurn, Switzerland public holidays 2028
- 5 dates counted
- 4 on weekdays
- 256 working days
- 3 long weekends
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2028 at a glance
- New Year's Day falls on Saturday 1 January 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 4 weekdays in Solothurn, one more than in 2027.
Switzerland has no statutory substitute days: a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday is not moved to a weekday. Corpus Christi, the Assumption and All Saints' Day are holidays in Solothurn except in the Bucheggberg district, so they are not counted; 1 May is a holiday from noon and is shown as a shorter working day.
Public holidays in 2028
5 dates are counted as non-working in Solothurn in 2028; 4 of them fall on a weekday.
| Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 1 January 2028 | New Year's Day | provisional – calculated from the rule Falls on a weekend and is not moved. |
| Friday 14 April 2028 | Good Friday | provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Thursday 25 May 2028 | Ascension Day | provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Tuesday 1 August 2028 | National Day | provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Monday 25 December 2028 | Christmas Day | provisional – calculated from the rule |
- provisional calculated from the rule
- not counted some employers only
Also observed by some
4 more days are holidays only for some employers, sectors or areas in 2028. They are not counted as non-working days here.
| Date | Holiday | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday 2 January 2028 | Saint Berchtold's Day (commonly a day off) | not counted provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Thursday 15 June 2028 | Corpus Christi (not in the Bucheggberg district) | not counted provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Tuesday 15 August 2028 | Assumption Day (not in the Bucheggberg district) | not counted provisional – calculated from the rule |
| Wednesday 1 November 2028 | All Saints' Day (not in the Bucheggberg district) | not counted provisional – calculated from the rule |
Shorter working days
1 day is a shorter working day in 2028. It counts as a full working day here.
- Monday 1 May 2028: Labour Day provisional – calculated from the rule
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
- Apr 19 working days in April, 1 holiday
- May 22 working days in May, 1 holiday
- Jun 22 working days in June
- Jul 21 working days in July
- Aug 22 working days in August, 1 holiday
- Sep 21 working days in September
- Oct 22 working days in October
- Nov 22 working days in November
- Dec 20 working days in December, 1 holiday
| Month | Working days | Hours at 7.5 h | Hours at 8 h | Holidays |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21 | 157.5 | 168 | 1 |
| February | 21 | 157.5 | 168 | 0 |
| March | 23 | 172.5 | 184 | 0 |
| April | 19 | 142.5 | 152 | 1 |
| May | 22 | 165 | 176 | 1 |
| June | 22 | 165 | 176 | 0 |
| July | 21 | 157.5 | 168 | 0 |
| August | 22 | 165 | 176 | 1 |
| September | 21 | 157.5 | 168 | 0 |
| October | 22 | 165 | 176 | 0 |
| November | 22 | 165 | 176 | 0 |
| December | 20 | 150 | 160 | 1 |
| 2028 | 256 | 1920 | 2048 | 5 |
Compare with the rest of Switzerland
| Jurisdiction | Working days in 2028 | Holidays on weekdays |
|---|---|---|
| Aargau | 256 | 4 |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | 254 | 6 |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | 253 | 7 |
| Basel-Landschaft | 252 | 8 |
| Basel-Stadt | 252 | 8 |
| Bern | 253 | 7 |
| Fribourg | 256 | 4 |
| Geneva | 253 | 7 |
| Glarus | 251 | 9 |
| Grisons | 253 | 7 |
| Jura | 252 | 8 |
| Lucerne | 252 | 8 |
| Neuchâtel | 254 | 6 |
| Nidwalden | 252 | 8 |
| Obwalden | 252 | 8 |
| Schaffhausen | 252 | 8 |
| Schwyz | 253 | 7 |
| Solothurn | 256 | 4 |
| St. Gallen | 252 | 8 |
| Thurgau | 253 | 7 |
| Ticino | 252 | 8 |
| Uri | 252 | 8 |
| Valais | 253 | 7 |
| Vaud | 253 | 7 |
| Zug | 252 | 8 |
| Zurich | 252 | 8 |
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 days | Break | Days off | Take leave on |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thu 13 Apr to Sun 16 Apr 2028 | 4 | Thu 13 Apr |
| 2 | Wed 12 Apr to Sun 16 Apr 2028 | 5 | Wed 12 Apr, Thu 13 Apr |
| 3 | Tue 11 Apr to Sun 16 Apr 2028 | 6 | Tue 11 Apr, Wed 12 Apr, Thu 13 Apr |
| 4 | Sat 23 Dec to Mon 1 Jan 2029 | 10 | Tue 26 Dec, Wed 27 Dec, Thu 28 Dec, Fri 29 Dec |
| 5 | Fri 22 Dec to Mon 1 Jan 2029 | 11 | Fri 22 Dec, Tue 26 Dec, Wed 27 Dec, Thu 28 Dec, Fri 29 Dec |
Leave plans for the whole year
Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.
10 days of leave: 27 days off in 5 breaks (uses 10)
- Thursday 6 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028: 11 days off for 6 days of leave
- Thursday 25 May 2028 to Sunday 28 May 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Saturday 29 July 2028 to Tuesday 1 August 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Friday 22 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Friday 29 December 2028 to Monday 1 January 2029: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
15 days of leave: 36 days off in 5 breaks (uses 15)
- Friday 7 April 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028: 10 days off for 5 days of leave
- Saturday 20 May 2028 to Sunday 28 May 2028: 9 days off for 4 days of leave
- Saturday 29 July 2028 to Tuesday 1 August 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Friday 22 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Saturday 30 December 2028 to Sunday 7 January 2029: 9 days off for 4 days of leave
20 days of leave: 43 days off in 5 breaks (uses 20)
- Friday 31 March 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028: 17 days off for 10 days of leave
- Saturday 20 May 2028 to Sunday 28 May 2028: 9 days off for 4 days of leave
- Saturday 29 July 2028 to Tuesday 1 August 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Friday 22 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Saturday 30 December 2028 to Sunday 7 January 2029: 9 days off for 4 days of leave
25 days of leave: 50 days off in 5 breaks (uses 25)
- Friday 31 March 2028 to Sunday 16 April 2028: 17 days off for 10 days of leave
- Saturday 13 May 2028 to Sunday 28 May 2028: 16 days off for 9 days of leave
- Saturday 29 July 2028 to Tuesday 1 August 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Friday 22 December 2028 to Monday 25 December 2028: 4 days off for 1 day of leave
- Saturday 30 December 2028 to Sunday 7 January 2029: 9 days off for 4 days of leave
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.
Calendar and data downloads
Every public holiday for Solothurn, 2026 to 2028, in your calendar app. A subscription updates by itself.
The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.
About public holidays in Solothurn
Solothurn is a canton of two religious traditions, and the count on this page is deliberately small because of it. The federal labour authority (SECO) records, in its table of cantonal holidays that rank as Sundays under the Federal Labour Act, one list for the whole canton and a shorter one for the district of Bucheggberg. Only the days common to both are counted here: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension, Christmas Day and, as the national holiday, 1 August. That makes five.
The longer list covers everywhere except Bucheggberg and adds Corpus Christi, the Assumption on 15 August and All Saints' Day on 1 November. A worker in a Bucheggberg village has three fewer holidays than a worker elsewhere in the canton. Because a page for the canton as a whole cannot say which of the two a given reader belongs to, those three Catholic feasts are listed with the label "not in the Bucheggberg district" but not counted. Anyone working outside Bucheggberg should take them off the figures below.
The May Day entry is the unusual one. In Solothurn only the afternoon of 1 May is a rest period, and the holiday starts at noon. The site shows it as a shorter working day, not as a full day off, and it does not reduce the count of working days. In 2026 the count leaves 257 working days from Monday to Friday, and 2027 has 258.
The table does not name 2 January, Easter Monday, Whit Monday or St Stephen's Day. Of these, 2 January is listed as commonly a day off, since many employers give it. The holiday library that supplies part of this site's raw data differs on several points, and where it and the SECO table disagree this page follows the table.
Against its neighbours, Solothurn sits at the low end. Lucerne counts nine days, with the full set of Catholic feasts, and Schaffhausen counts nine with Easter Monday, Whit Monday and 1 May. Jura, to the west, also counts nine and lists four more cantonal holidays without counting them. Solothurn has no Immaculate Conception, no St Stephen's Day and no Whit Monday in its list at all.
Switzerland has no substitute days. A holiday that lands on a Saturday or a Sunday is not moved: 1 August is a Saturday in 2026 and a Sunday in 2027, and nothing replaces it. Local municipal holidays and customary closing days are outside the count.
Source and last check
Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: .