Frequently asked questions

Public holidays are a "public good". We have no copyright on the individual public holidays. However, the Feiertagskalender.ch data collection has been compiled and maintained over many years and is therefore protected by copyright. It is therefore not permitted to copy lists and data from Feiertagskalender.ch without being asked and incorporate them into your application or publish them on your website.

If you would like to use information from Feiertagskalender.ch, please contact us. We will draw up a simple user agreement and everyone will be happy.

Thank you for your understanding.

We once had an Android app. However, as we have been making our iCal calendars available free of charge for private use for some time now, we have discontinued further development of the app. Some calendar apps work with our data.

Feiertagskalender.ch can be called up with various parameters. Links to the portal should look like this:
https://www.feiertagskalender.ch/

When called up in this way, the country selection and a list of all public holidays for the current year are displayed.

Set the language to English:
hl=en
You can use the hl= parameter to select the language

Links to a specific year
Parameter: jahr=YYYY
You can use the jahr= parameter to select a specific year. If the parameter is missing, the current year is always displayed.

Links to a specific region
Parameter: geo=ID
The geo= parameter can be used to link to a specific region. If the geo parameter is missing, Feiertagskalender displays the country selection.

Further options for linking are:

Select type of holiday
Parameter: klasse=5 (= default)
Shows all public holidays in the database

Parameter: klasse=4
only shows legally recognised and non-recognised public holidays

Parameter: klasse=3
shows only the legally recognised public holidays

Combination examples
If you use several parameters, the first one must be connected with a question mark ? and all others with an "and" sign &.

Examples:

The legally recognised public holidays 2007 in the municipality of Lauterbrunnen:
https://www.feiertagskalender.ch/?geo=547&jahr=2007&klasse=3&hl=en

All public holidays of the city of Augsburg for the year 2028:
https://www.feiertagskalender.ch/?geo=3076&jahr=2028&hl=en

List of public and non-recognised holidays for Austria in 2026:
https://www.feiertagskalender.ch/?geo=3058&jahr=2026&klasse=4&hl=en

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• link Feiertagskalender.ch on your social media pages and/or mention us in a post or comment
• recommend Feiertagskalender.ch to your friends and colleagues when the opportunity arises
• suggest integrating our data into applications that use calendar functions and do not display exact public holidays.

and if you are a journalist

• write an article about Feiertagskalender.ch
• publish a link to Feiertagskalender.ch

If you develop software

• Integrate our data into your project

Public holidays that only apply regionally or locally are marked with a percentage at the higher level. This also always means that you can set Feiertagskalender.ch even more precisely geographically. Feiertagskalender.ch always lists all public holidays that apply anywhere in the currently selected region. By clicking on a public holiday, you can see where it actually applies and what significance it has where.

The indication "Christian public holiday" means that a public holiday has a church background. Christian public holidays are not necessarily non-working days!

As some public holidays always fall on a Sunday and every Sunday is a "public holiday and day of rest" anyway, days such as Easter Sunday and Whit Sunday are not recognised as public holidays in Switzerland. To ensure that these important days are still listed and exported, you can change the calendar to "Statutory + non-recognised public holidays".

If you cannot find a public holiday using the search function or in the "Public holidays from A to Z" list, it is possible that this public holiday has not yet been recorded by us.
In this case, please let us know so that we can rectify the problem. It is our declared aim to reflect reality as accurately as possible.

In the medium term, there are plans to include more countries in the calendar. Public holiday regulations are not as clearly defined everywhere as in Western Europe. In the Balkans, for example, religious holidays play a major role and the lists of public holidays vary considerably depending on the religious denomination. As a result, almost all public holidays only apply to part of the population and the more religions are represented in a country, the more confusing the situation becomes. In Arabia and Asia, we as a small team reach the limits of our language skills and are unable to check the reliability of the data ourselves. We would rather not depict a country than publish incorrect information.

We therefore ask for your understanding if a country is not represented. We are grateful for any comments and suggestions.

Yes, you are welcome to have a free key by contacting us by e-mail.
If you let us know which municipality you would like to receive data for, we will send you the e-mail with your personalised free key directly.

Alternatively, you can search for the municipality here and then click on the "iCal" tab,
to trigger the e-mail (also in case you need the data of several municipalities):
https://feiertagskalender.ch/suchen.php?hl=en

The free key appointment is entered in the old calendar subscription, which will become invalid and switched off in a few weeks.

To remove the appointment, you can delete the previous subscription.

1. Open Google Calendar in a browser on a computer or tablet (calendar.google.com).
2. On the left, click “Other calendars” → “Add by URL”.
3. Paste the calendar URL with your Free-Key.
4. Save – the calendar will sync to your Android device automatically.

1. Open your device's Settings.
2. Go to Calendar → Accounts.
3. Tap “Add Account” → “Other” → “Add Subscribed Calendar”.
4. Enter the calendar URL with your Free-Key.
5. Set a name and confirm.

1. Open the Calendar app on your Mac.
2. In the menu bar, click on „File“ ? „New Calendar Subscription…“.
3. Enter the iCal URL from the email and click on „Subscribe“.
4. Choose a name and color for the calendar.
5. Under „Auto-refresh“, select „Every day“.
6. Click „OK“.

1. Open Google Calendar on your computer.
2. In the left menu, click on „Other calendars“ and select „Add by URL“.
3. Copy the iCal URL from the email and paste it into the address field.
4. Disable the option „Make the calendar publicly accessible“.
5. Click on „Add calendar“.
6. Your calendar will now be added automatically.
7. Optional: Go to the calendar settings to give it a custom name.

Note: Google updates iCal subscriptions approximately every 24 hours. Immediate synchronization is not possible.

1. Open Microsoft Outlook.
2. Go to the Calendar section.
3. Click on „Add Calendar“ ? „From the Internet…“.
4. Copy the iCal URL from the email and paste it into the address field.
5. Click „Add“ and confirm with „OK“.
6. Your calendar will now be added and will synchronize automatically.

Note: Outlook synchronizes subscribed calendars at regular intervals, but not in real-time.

1. Open Mozilla Sunbird.
2. Click on „File“ ? „New Calendar“.
3. Select „On the network“ and click „Next“.
4. Enter the iCal URL from the email.
5. Click „Next“ and choose a color for the calendar.
6. Your calendar will now be added and will update automatically.

Unfortunately, this can happen for various reasons. We receive a number of error messages stating that mails could not be delivered because

• the address does not exist (typing error?)
• the mailbox is full
• there was another dispatch problem

Please try again.

We have noticed that more and more automated programs and AI assistants are extracting our calendar data. To limit abuse and data theft, we can no longer offer iCal subscriptions without protection.

Therefore, we kindly ask you to enter your email address.
You will receive a personal Free-Key, which allows you to reactivate your calendar subscription.

Privacy & Security:

• Your email address is used exclusively for the calendar subscription.
• Your data will never be sold or shared with third parties.
• Your subscription remains permanently free.

This measure is only intended to protect our free service from abuse, without restricting access for genuine users.
Thank you for your understanding and support!

How to activate your calendar subscription:

1. Find your municipality:
   Use the search function or visit the public holiday page for your municipality.
2. Select iCal export:
   Click on the iCal tab in the menu.
   (If the tab is not visible, please select your region at the top of the page.)
3. Enter your email address:
   Type in your address and click “Submit”.
4. Receive & Add your link:
   You will receive an email with your personal calendar link, which you can easily add to your calendar.

Yes.

• Catholic cantons:
  AI, FR, JU, LU, NW, OW, SG, SZ, TI, VS, ZG, UR

• German-speaking, religiously mixed cantons:
  AG, AR, BE, BL, BS, GL, GR, SH, SO, TG, ZH

• French-speaking, religiously mixed cantons:
  GE, NE, VD

Source: BADAC

Verordnung des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums des Inneren über den regionalen Feiertag Fronleichnam (Fronleichnams VO).
Vom 4. Mai 1993, rechtsbereinigt mit Stand vom 10. Juni 1995
Aufgrund von § 1 Abs. 1 des Gesetzes über Sonn- und Feiertage im Freistaat Sachsen (SächsSFG) vom 10. November 1992 (SächsGVB1. S. 536) wird verordnet:

§ 1
In den in der Anlage ausgeführten Gemeinden der Landkreise Bautzen, Hoyerswerda und Kamenz ist Fronleichnam ein gesetzlicher Feiertag. Dies gilt, wenn die aufgeführten Gemeinden nach einer Neugliederung als Gemeindeteil fortbestehen, nur für diesen Gemeindeteil.

§ 2
Diese Verordnung tritt am Tage nach ihrer Verkündung in Kraft.

Dresden, den 4. Mai 1993

Der Staatsminister des Innern
Heinz Eggert

Anlage

Gemeinden im Landkreis Bautzen
Königswartha
Luga
Luppa
Luttowitz
Neschwitz
Prischwitz
Puschwitz
Radibor
Salzenforst-Bolbritz
Saritsch
Sdier
Gemeinden im Landkreis Hoyerswerda
Dörgenhausen
Dubring
Hoske
Kotten
Sollschwitz
Spohla
Wittichenau
Gemeinden im Landkreis Kamenz
Crostwitz
Nebenschütz
Ostro
Panschwitz-Kuckau
Ralbitz
Räckelwitz
Rosenthal

The Federal Department of Justice and Police FDJP publishes a document entitled "Public holidays and days that are treated as public holidays in Switzerland" (kant-feiertage.pdf), which is unfortunately interpreted by many as a valid list of public holidays.

According to the FDJP, the list in question is not a general list of public holidays, but the list that regulates the calculation of deadlines in the area of civil, commercial and administrative law. The list is based on information provided by the cantons and has been notified to the Council of Europe accordingly.

The published list is therefore not a list of public holidays that are relevant in labour law, for example.

More specifically:
The Council of Europe requires Switzerland to publish a list of public holidays for the purpose of calculating deadlines. In Switzerland, however, there are also religiously mixed cantons and cantons that allow local public holidays. Therefore, this list is not a detailed picture of Swiss public holidays, but a kind of distillation: a simplified representation of the situation and the definition for dealing with legal deadlines.

Switzerland: The payment of wages for working hours lost on public holidays is a matter of civil law and as such is not subject to cantonal legislation. The federal legislator responsible for civil law has refrained from prescribing a statutory obligation to pay wages for public holidays. The payment of wages must therefore be regulated by contractual agreement if necessary.
Source: SECO

Switzerland:
In the cantons of Appenzell, St Stephen's Day (26 December) is a working day if it falls on a Tuesday or Saturday.

In the canton of Neuchâtel, St Stephen's Day is only a public holiday if it falls on a Monday.

Why? What is the background and when was this regulation introduced?

These regulations date back to the 1950s and are generally not applied in practice as almost nobody is aware of them. In other words, many offices and shops are closed anyway.

By default, our calendar displays events and public holidays. This also includes days that many people forget, such as Valentine's Day, Mother's Day or St Nicholas' Day. However, you can change the view: In the "Statutory + non-recognised public holidays" selection, the calendar displays all relevant public holidays. This also includes public holidays that always fall on a Sunday and are therefore not recognised as public holidays in some countries (because every Sunday is a day of rest anyway). The "Legally recognized holidays" view should then be self-explanatory.

By an event day, we mean a working day or Sunday on which something special takes place. Good examples are Mother's Day, market days or Valentine's Day.

To our knowledge, there is no statutory closing time before public holidays. Working hours are an agreement between the contracting parties and are regulated in the employment contract.
Most companies based in Switzerland reduce working hours by one or two hours before a legally recognised public holiday.

Switzerland:
In the canton of Neuchâtel, Bertchold's Day is only a public holiday if it falls on a Monday.
This regulation dates back to the 1950s and is not usually applied in practice, as almost nobody is aware of it. In other words, many offices and shops are closed anyway.

No, but the canton only specifies three weeks and the municipalities can add the remaining weeks as they wish.
Because the summer holidays are not standardised at cantonal level, we cannot show them at cantonal level.
Please simply select the desired municipality to see its correct holidays.

You can make our work easier if you always publish your holiday dates at least 2 years in advance (preferably 5 years). Please bear in mind that, for example, calendar print products are already edited in the previous summer, or parents planning a trip would often be happy to receive the data for the year after next.

If you are responsible for the school holiday calendar in your school or municipality and publish new data, or if you notice a discrepancy between your data and Feiertagskalender.ch, please contact us.

Notes for your school website with holiday data:

• Most people are looking for a "holiday calendar", or "holiday schedule" (and not a school schedule, school calendar or similar insider terms). Use simple, clear terms such as school holidays or holiday calendar, holiday plan.
• You make life easier for your users and for us if your holiday lists are
  • can be accessed online (research and verification of data)
  • are always accessible via the same address (URL).
• Do not post Word or Excel documents on the Internet, as not all interested parties have the necessary software to view such documents; if you want to offer the holiday list as a document, PDF documents are much more useful.
• Publish the first and last day of the holidays. Lists that show the last and first day of school are confusing and often lead to errors when transferring data.

Thank you very much for your interest!

Recording the school holidays for 4100 regions/municipalities is a time-consuming task. We are grateful for any help. If you know the holiday dates of a municipality or country that we have not yet recorded, please let us know.
Please also let us know if your municipality has published new data that we are still missing. Our aim is to always be up to date.
We are also particularly pleased to receive holiday plans (or links) directly from municipalities and schools.

SCHILWE means: compulsory in-service teacher training:
SCHILF means: compulsory internal teacher training programme
A day off for the pupils.

As the sports holidays are not standardised at cantonal level, we are unable to display them at cantonal level.
Please select the desired municipality to see its sports holidays.