Uri, Switzerland public holidays 2028

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 8 weekdays in Uri, two 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 Uri in 2028; 8 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
• 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 19 working days in December, 2 holidays

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 Friday 8 December 2028 to Sunday 10 December 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 Uri

Uri's holidays are named in the cantonal Ladenschluss- und Sonntagsruhegesetz (LSG, systematic number 70.1421), the law on shop closing and Sunday rest. Article 9 defines the public rest days as Sundays, a list of fourteen holidays, and any holiday that a municipality designates for its own territory. The fourteen are New Year's Day, Epiphany, St Joseph's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption, All Saints' Day, the Immaculate Conception, Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day. The text read for this page is the version of the law from January 2007.

A public rest day in that sense is not automatically a day that the federal Labour Act treats like a Sunday. Article 10 leaves that second question to a separate cantonal ordinance, and the two lists need not match. This page therefore counts nine dates: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, 1 August, the Assumption, All Saints' Day, the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day. They follow the SECO table of Swiss holidays (December 2024). In 2026 that leaves 255 working days, and 255 again in 2027.

Four further days appear in the law and are shown in the list with the label "cantonal holiday, not equal to a Sunday": Epiphany, St Joseph's Day, Easter Monday and Whit Monday. They are days off for public offices and many employers, but they do not count towards the working-day figure. St Stephen's Day on 26 December is a rest day under article 9 as well, with the same standing, so it carries the same label every year and is not counted.

Uri sits next to Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Ticino, Valais and Graubünden, and its calendar is the typical one of the inner-Swiss Catholic cantons. Compared with Zurich, it adds Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints' Day and the Immaculate Conception to the counted days, and it has no holiday on 1 May or 2 January. Compared with Zug, the counted list is the same.

Municipalities may add holidays of their own under article 9, letter c. These communal holidays cover one municipality only, so they are not in the canton-wide figures.

No holiday moves when it falls on a weekend. The Assumption is on a Saturday in 2026 and All Saints' Day on a Sunday. In 2027 the Assumption and 1 August both fall on a Sunday, while Christmas Day is a Saturday. None of those years provides a replacement weekday.

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/88851/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