Ticino, 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; 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 5 weekdays in Ticino, three 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 Ticino in 2026; 5 of them fall on a weekday.

• not counted some employers only

Also observed by some

6 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 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• 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 22 working days in June
• 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 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.

• 3 days Saturday 4 April 2026 to Monday 6 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

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Countdown

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Calendar and data downloads

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About public holidays in Ticino

Ticino has the longest list of official holidays in Switzerland. The Legge concernente i giorni festivi ufficiali nel Cantone Ticino (number 843.200), passed by the Grand Council on 15 December 2009 and in force from 9 February 2010, replaced a legislative decree of 1934. Article 1 designates, besides Sundays, fifteen days: New Year's Day, Epiphany (6 January), St Joseph's Day (19 March), Easter Monday, 1 May, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Saints Peter and Paul (29 June), 1 August, the Assumption (15 August), All Saints' Day (1 November), the Immaculate Conception (8 December), Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day.

Not all fifteen are counted on this page, and the reason is federal. A canton may put at most eight days besides 1 August on the same footing as a Sunday for the purposes of the Labour Act, and the Ticino law names more than that. For the count we follow the state of the SECO table of Swiss holidays (December 2024). It gives eight cantonal days as Sunday-equivalent in the whole canton, New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, the Assumption, All Saints' Day, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day, and the page adds the federal holiday of 1 August to make nine. Those are the days that reduce the working-day total, which comes to 256 days in both 2026 and 2027.

The other six remain official holidays under article 1 but are listed apart, each with the label "cantonal holiday, not equal to a Sunday": St Joseph's Day, 1 May, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, Saints Peter and Paul and the Immaculate Conception. A bank clerk or a civil servant may well be free on those days, while a factory covered by the Labour Act is not necessarily obliged to close. Check the contract before assuming either way.

Good Friday is not a holiday in Ticino. In much of German-speaking Switzerland it is the most important Christian holiday, while the Ticino law of 2009 leaves it out, so a worker in Lugano has Easter Monday but not the Friday before.

The list is Catholic in shape. Epiphany, St Joseph, Peter and Paul, the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception are not public holidays in Zurich, Thurgau or St Gallen. Valais shares St Joseph and the Marian feasts, yet has no holiday on 6 January or 1 May.

Ticino has no provision that moves a holiday falling on a weekend. In 2026 the Assumption, 1 August and St Stephen's Day are Saturdays and All Saints' Day is a Sunday, so four counted dates take nothing from the working week; only five of the nine remove a weekday. Epiphany is on Wednesday 6 January 2027 and St Joseph's Day on Friday 19 March 2027.

Carnival, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and the patron saint days of individual municipalities are not statutory holidays under the law and are not counted.

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://m3.ti.ch/CAN/RLeggi/public/index.php/raccolta-leggi/pdfatto/atto/568
• 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