Thurgau, 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 Thurgau, 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 Thurgau 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 22 working days in March
• Apr 20 working days in April, 2 holidays
• May 19 working days in May, 2 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 Thursday 1 January 2026 to Sunday 4 January 2026
• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 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.

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 Thurgau

Thurgau has a new rest-day law, and 2026 is its first year. The Ruhetagsgesetz (systematic number 822.9), adopted in early 2025 and in force from 1 January 2026, replaces the older text, and it changes what a visitor to this page should expect from the Thurgau column. The most visible change concerns 1 May. Labour Day is now a public rest day in the canton, which means that public offices and schools close, but it is not one of the days that the federal labour authority (SECO) records as equal to a Sunday. This page therefore lists 1 May as a cantonal holiday that is not counted.

Nine days are counted: New Year's Day, Berchtold's Day (2 January), Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, the federal holiday on 1 August, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. Thurgau differs on 2 January from neighbouring St Gallen, whose rest-day law does not name the day and where it is shown only as commonly a day off.

The reason 1 May is separated is the Federal Labour Act. Employers that work under it must give the Sunday-equivalent days as rest, and that is a narrower list than the days when offices close. A bakery, a clinic or a factory in Thurgau is not bound by the 1 May closing the way a town hall is, though many firms follow it anyway. Anyone who needs certainty for a payroll or a contract should confirm the position with the canton.

The list contains no Catholic feast days. There is no Corpus Christi, Assumption, All Saints' Day or Immaculate Conception, which sets Thurgau apart from Uri, Ticino and Zug and puts it closer to Zurich. It differs from Zurich in one way: Zurich counts 1 May but not Berchtold's Day, while Thurgau counts the reverse. St Gallen, on the other side, has All Saints' Day but not 1 May.

In 2026 seven of the nine counted dates fall on a weekday, which leaves 254 working days from Monday to Friday. The federal holiday is on Saturday 1 August and St Stephen's Day on Saturday 26 December, and nobody gains a day off in lieu. In 2027 the count is 256, since 2 January is a Saturday, and so are Christmas Day and 1 May; 1 August and St Stephen's Day are Sundays, and 2027 is a lean year for the cantonal calendar.

Carnival days, church holidays of minority denominations and communal festivals are outside the count. Some employers give half a day on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve; those are choices of the employer, not entries in the law.

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.rechtsbuch.tg.ch/app/de/texts_of_law/822.9
• 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