Zug, 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 Zug, 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 Zug in 2028; 8 of them fall on a weekday.

• 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.

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.

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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 Zug

The canton of Zug publishes a short list of cantonal holidays on its page about working and rest hours: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints' Day, the Immaculate Conception and Christmas Day. The page adds that the federal holiday on 1 August is paid in full whatever the pay arrangement, and that cantonal holidays are equated with Sundays. This list of eight, plus 1 August, is what the page counts, and it matches the SECO table of Swiss holidays in its state of December 2024.

Zug is a Catholic-leaning canton in central Switzerland, and the calendar shows it in two ways. First, Corpus Christi, the Assumption, All Saints' Day and the Immaculate Conception are counted holidays, which they are not in Zurich, Thurgau or Vaud. Secondly, Zug does not take the Protestant days that Zurich takes: Easter Monday, Whit Monday and St Stephen's Day are absent from the cantonal page.

Four days are shown in the lists with the label "commonly a day off": 2 January, Easter Monday, Whit Monday and 26 December. The cantonal page does not mention them as holidays, but many employers in the canton give them anyway. They are not counted, so they do not lower the working-day figure, which is 255 days in 2026 and 255 again in 2027. If your contract grants one of the four, subtract it yourself.

Zug differs from Uri in what is merely listed: Uri adds Epiphany, St Joseph, Easter Monday and Whit Monday as cantonal holidays, while Zug has no such tier. It differs from Zurich in the other direction, because Zurich counts 1 May, Easter Monday, Whit Monday and 26 December, while Zug counts none of the four. Lucerne, Schwyz and Aargau each take a different mixture, which is why the figure for Zug cannot be inferred from a neighbour.

Zug also has local customs, most visibly the carnival days before Lent, that are not public holidays. Half days before holidays, such as Christmas Eve, are left to employers.

Holidays that land on a Saturday or a Sunday are not moved to another day. The Assumption falls on a Saturday in 2026 and on a Sunday in 2027, All Saints' Day on a Sunday in 2026, and Christmas Day on a Saturday in 2027. Corpus Christi is on Thursday 4 June 2026 and Thursday 27 May 2027, both weekdays.

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://zg.ch/de/wirtschaft-arbeit/arbeitsbedingungen/arbeits-und-ruhezeiten
• 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