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🇨🇭 Switzerland Long Weekends 2025

9 long weekends in Switzerland in 2025. Plan your trips around these dates.

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Epiphany
3 days
4 January 2025 — 6 January 2025
Näfels procession
3 days
4 April 2025 — 6 April 2025
Good Friday + Easter Monday
4 days
18 April 2025 — 21 April 2025
Whit Monday
3 days
7 June 2025 — 9 June 2025
Swiss National Day
3 days
1 August 2025 — 3 August 2025
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
3 days
15 August 2025 — 17 August 2025
Federal Day of Thanksgiving + Federal Fast Monday
3 days
20 September 2025 — 22 September 2025
Immaculate Conception
3 days
6 December 2025 — 8 December 2025
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day
4 days
25 December 2025 — 28 December 2025
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Long Weekends Summary — Switzerland 2025

Longest
Good Friday + Easter Monday — 4 days, no leave used
By length
2 × 4-day, 7 × 3-day

How long weekends are calculated

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend. It runs longer when holidays stack — Good Friday plus Easter Monday gives four days — and only statutory days off count, never days that are merely customary. All of these need no annual leave.
Source: SECO — Feiertage Schweiz (Anhang zum Arbeitsgesetz) ↗ · Dates verified annually. · Report an error
PDF. Only 1 August is a federal holiday — every other Swiss holiday is cantonal, and this annex is the official per-canton table under art. 20a ArG.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many long weekends does Switzerland have in 2025?+
Switzerland has 9 long weekends in 2025: 2 four-day weekends, and 7 three-day weekends.
What's the longest weekend in Switzerland in 2025?+
The longest is around Good Friday + Easter Monday, running from 18 April 2025 to 21 April 2025 — 4 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.
How are long weekends calculated?+
A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.
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