Closure expectation
HighSwiss National Day is modeled as a public holiday in Switzerland; expect office, bank, school, and service-hour changes unless a local exception applies.
Holiday guide
Swiss National Day.
Global holiday guide rooted in Switzerland's calendar, observed nationwide.
Next occurrence
August 1, 2027
Sunday · Europe/Zurich
Next occurrence
August 1, 2027
Sunday
Observed in
1 country
Current holiday dataset
Primary context
Switzerland
Public
Planning timezone
Europe/Zurich
UTC+02:00
Countdown
Next: August 1, 2027 (Sunday)
Swiss National Day
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National Day holidays usually distill state identity into one public date, whether the underlying story is revolution, modern state formation, or constitutional continuity. In the current dataset this holiday is only listed for Switzerland.
Dates draw from the curated holiday catalog (tracked window 2025-2027); cultural context comes from the source-cited curation library when an entry exists.
Holiday details
Local statutory mode, country coverage, date rule, timezone spread, and related planning context for Swiss National Day.
Primary calendar
Switzerland · Public
Cultural family
secular civic holiday · Central Europe
Observed scope
Nationwide observance
Coverage reach
1 country in the current holiday dataset
Timezone context
Europe/Zurich (UTC+02:00)
Next date signal
August 1, 2027 · Sunday
Forward window
2025: August 1, 2025 · 2026: August 1, 2026 · 2027: August 1, 2027
Related planning set
Republic Day · New Year's Day · St. Berchtold's Day
Regional spread
Europe 1
Reference posture
Country-specific editorial notes plus catalog dates
Holiday data fingerprint
The rows below are built from this holiday's actual route, country, local-name, date, rule, timezone, observed-country, and adjacent-calendar records. They make Swiss National Day in Switzerland distinct from holidays with similar names or the same season.
Route identity
swiss-national-day · Swiss National Day · Switzerland · CH
Local name and scope
Bundesfeier · Public · nationwide
Rule and family
secular civic holiday · Central Europe · fixed-date
Country/date clusters
August 1, 2027 (1)
Observed type mix
Public: 1
Forward date window
2027: August 1, 2027 (Sunday) · 2028: August 1, 2028 (Tuesday) · 2029: August 1, 2029 (Wednesday) · 2030: August 1, 2030 (Thursday) · 2031: August 1, 2031 (Friday)
Timezone anchor
Europe/Zurich · Europe/Zurich (UTC+02:00)
Calendar neighbors
previous: Saint Peter and Saint Paul (33 days before) · next: Assumption of the Virgin Mary (14 days after)
Source depth
6 reference checkpoints · Country-specific editorial notes plus catalog dates
Closure and planning risk register
The practical risk is not just the date. Swiss National Day can affect closure expectations, bridge-day leave, country-specific substitutions, cross-border date drift, and timezone reminders differently in each jurisdiction.
Date confidence
Projected tail4 forward rows are projected from a fixed-date rule after the tracked catalog window; verify long-range statutory calendars before committing.
Bridge-day pressure
SundaySwiss National Day next falls on August 1, 2027 (Sunday). Weekend-substitution risk is the main scheduling question; check whether local law grants a weekday substitute.
Cross-border drift
Local onlySwiss National Day is effectively a Switzerland detail page in this dataset; local rules matter more than international comparison.
Timezone handling
Single zoneSwitzerland has a single primary timezone in this country record, so date-boundary risk is lower than in multi-zone countries.
Source posture
ReferencedSwiss National Day has 6 visible reference checkpoints on the page. Country-specific editorial notes plus catalog dates.
Source and verification checkpoints
This page keeps the date answer separate from statutory verification. The catalog supplies the tracked date rows; the checkpoints below show which authority, story profile, local specificity, and dossier layer should be reviewed when the holiday affects bookings, payroll, travel, or public-service hours.
Country authority checkpoint
Swiss federal holiday reference; Canton public-holiday calendars where applicable
Story and rule checkpoint
fixed holiday profile: National Day holidays usually distill state identity into one public date, whether the underlying story is revolution, modern state formation, or constitutional continuity.
Local specificity checkpoint
Swiss National Day is anchored to the Federal Charter tradition of 1291 and the confederation story around the Alpine cantons, giving the date a federal and local-commune character instead of a capital-city independence narrative. In Switzerland, August 1 planning often means evening bonfires, fireworks rules, commune events, and canton-by-canton transport patterns; the signal is distributed across towns rather than concentrated in one national venue.
Dossier checkpoint
No full manual dossier is attached yet; the page keeps cultural claims bounded to the story profile, source checklist, and catalog-derived date facts.
Reference stack
- Swiss federal holiday reference
- Canton public-holiday calendars where applicable
- Country statutory public-holiday calendar
- National civic-history references for the selected country
- Internal curated holiday catalog for tracked date rows
- countries.json and zones.json for country and timezone context
Reliability and cross-border spread
This block separates the local Switzerland holiday answer from two common sources of programmatic-calendar confusion: countries that use the same holiday name on different dates, and future rows that are projected from a rule rather than directly tracked.
Cross-border date spread
Swiss National Day is currently anchored to Switzerland in the observed-country dataset, so cross-border date drift is not a major concern on this page.
Projection reliability
Swiss National Day has a projectable fixed-date pattern, but projected rows are explicitly labeled and should not be treated as official statutory notices. Source posture: no curated dossier attached.
Observed next-date clusters
August 1, 2027
1 country · Switzerland
Observed type mix across countries
Public1
Local names and country context
Name in Switzerland
Bundesfeier
The local catalog name for Switzerland is Bundesfeier; the English display name is Swiss National Day.
Country calendar role
Swiss National Day is recorded in Switzerland as a public holiday with nationwide scope.
History and significance
These observances tend to be formalized by the state as the clearest annual marker of nationhood, public ceremony, and shared symbolic history.
Swiss National Day is anchored to the Federal Charter tradition of 1291 and the confederation story around the Alpine cantons, giving the date a federal and local-commune character instead of a capital-city independence narrative.
That makes them useful as practical planning dates as well as civic rituals, because closures, speeches, and public events often arrive at national scale.
Swiss National Day is marked as a nationwide observance in the current Switzerland holiday data.
In Switzerland, August 1 planning often means evening bonfires, fireworks rules, commune events, and canton-by-canton transport patterns; the signal is distributed across towns rather than concentrated in one national venue.
Date behavior and next years
Swiss National Day is scheduled on August 1 each year. In the tracked 2025-2027 data window, it stays on August 1 and only the weekday changes.
Because Swiss National Day stays on the same calendar date, the only year-over-year planning shift is the day of the week — that controls long-weekend math, school-closure timing, and how the holiday lands in payroll cycles.
The current static build keeps the tracked 2025-2027 date window online for curated holiday detail pages.
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | August 1, 2025 | Friday |
| 2026 | August 1, 2026 | Saturday |
| 2027 | August 1, 2027 | Sunday |
Next 5 occurrences and weekday distribution
The first rows are taken from the tracked catalog window (2025-2027); rows after the catalog cut-off are projected forward because Swiss National Day has a fixed-date rule. Easter-cycle, lunar, and country-specific custom-rule holidays are never projected — those rows simply stop at the catalog edge.
| Year | Date | Weekday | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 | August 1, 2027 | Sunday | Catalog |
| 2028 | August 1, 2028 | Tuesday | Projected (fixed rule) |
| 2029 | August 1, 2029 | Wednesday | Projected (fixed rule) |
| 2030 | August 1, 2030 | Thursday | Projected (fixed rule) |
| 2031 | August 1, 2031 | Friday | Projected (fixed rule) |
Projected rows assume the fixed-date rule continues to repeat the same calendar date; weekend-substitution and other statutory adjustments may shift the actual local observance day.
Seasonal placement
Swiss National Day next lands in the summer planning band for Switzerland. That matters for school terms, travel season, and whether the holiday sits near year-end, spring religious calendars, summer travel, or autumn civic cycles.
Weekday distribution in this window
Friday1
Sunday1
Thursday1
Tuesday1
Wednesday1
How Swiss National Day is observed
Swiss National Day is a secular civic anchor: its meaning is constitutional, political, or statehood-related, with little religious or seasonal content driving the date.
Searches for Swiss National Day usually want the exact date, the public-closure status in Switzerland, and a quick read of why the date is on the calendar at all.
Cultural family
secular civic holiday
Origin region: Central Europe
Statutory mode
Swiss National Day is listed as a public holiday in Switzerland (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close.
Planning notes for teams, travel, and operations
As a secular civic holiday sitting in the Switzerland calendar, Swiss National Day matters for planning because office, bank, and school closures stack on the same day. The next tracked occurrence is August 1, 2027 (Sunday), which controls long-weekend math for that year.
Swiss National Day also appears in other country calendars such as Switzerland. Recorded next dates include Switzerland on August 1, 2027 — slight differences across borders are common because each country can apply weekend-substitution or regional-only rules to the same nominal holiday.
Switzerland plans this holiday primarily around Europe/Zurich. Because Swiss National Day stays on the same calendar date, the only year-over-year planning shift is the day of the week — that controls long-weekend math, school-closure timing, and how the holiday lands in payroll cycles. Teams often line Swiss National Day up with Republic Day, New Year's Day, and St. Berchtold's Day when blocking off the broader holiday window.
Holiday planning depth
What the Swiss National Day entry signals
A compact read of the holiday catalog row: rule kind, observance scope, country reach, and what curated context (if any) is attached. Useful before deciding whether the headline date alone answers a planning question.
Calendar fingerprint
Swiss National Day is tracked as a public entry in Switzerland (nationwide). It reads as a secular civic holiday with origins in Central Europe; the date follows a fixed-date rule.
Date and rhythm
Next tracked occurrence is August 1, 2027 (Sunday). Forward dates: 2027: August 1, 2027 (Sunday), 2028: August 1, 2028 (Tuesday), 2029: August 1, 2029 (Wednesday), 2030: August 1, 2030 (Thursday), and 2031: August 1, 2031 (Friday).
Cross-country reach
Swiss National Day is currently a single-country entry in the dataset, anchored to Switzerland. Adjacent planning entries on the same calendar include Republic Day, New Year's Day, and St. Berchtold's Day.
Local planning anchor
Switzerland plans this holiday around Europe/Zurich. The page treats the country-level closure rule (public) as the headline operational signal, not a generic public-holiday template.
Curation depth
No curated dossier is attached. The page still surfaces the catalog metadata but skips the source-cited cultural depth panel.
Statutory and projection cautions
Weekend substitution is country-specific: Switzerland may observe the nominal date, grant a substitute weekday, or apply regional-only rules depending on the statute and year. Swiss National Day is currently anchored to Switzerland in the observed-country dataset, so cross-border date drift is not a major concern on this page. Swiss National Day has a projectable fixed-date pattern, but projected rows are explicitly labeled and should not be treated as official statutory notices. Source posture: no curated dossier attached.
Local-name context
The local catalog name for Switzerland is Bundesfeier; the English display name is Swiss National Day.
Holiday calendars drift year over year as governments revise statutory observance rules; treat the tracked window as a reliable reference and verify the exact local rule before committing to long-range schedules.
Previous and next observed holidays
The closest observed holidays before and after Swiss National Day in the Switzerlandcalendar show the local scheduling neighborhood for 2027.
Previous holiday
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
June 29, 2027 · Observance
33 days before Swiss National Day; local label: Peter und Paul.
Next holiday
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
August 15, 2027 · Public
14 days after Swiss National Day; local label: Maria Himmelfahrt.
Local calendar neighborhood
These are the closest holidays around Swiss National Day in the Switzerlandcalendar for 2027. They help separate this guide from holidays in the same season or religious/civic family.
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
August 15, 2027 · Public
14 days after Swiss National Day. Local label: Maria Himmelfahrt.
Assumption of the Virgin Mary
August 15, 2027 · Observance
14 days after Swiss National Day. Local label: Maria Himmelfahrt.
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
June 29, 2027 · Observance
33 days before Swiss National Day. Local label: Peter und Paul.
Geneva Prayday
September 9, 2027 · Public
39 days after Swiss National Day. Local label: Jeûne genevois.
Federal Day of Thanksgiving
September 19, 2027 · Observance
49 days after Swiss National Day. Local label: Eidgenössischer Dank-, Buss- und Bettag.
Federal Fast Monday
September 20, 2027 · Public
50 days after Swiss National Day. Local label: Bettagsmontag.
Observed countries and regions
Swiss National Day is only listed for Switzerland in the current dataset.
Europe
1 country
Country-by-country timing snapshot
Swiss National Day is currently a single-country entry, so the next-date row below is the operational anchor for Switzerland.
| Country | Next date | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | August 1, 2027 | Public |
Related holidays in Switzerland
Related links are selected from the same country calendar first, with family matches such as Easter-cycle or lunisolar festivals preferred before nearby-date filler.
Republic Day
March 1, 2026 · Public
Curated country planning companion
See 2026 calendar
New Year's Day
January 1, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
St. Berchtold's Day
January 2, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
Epiphany
January 6, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
Saint Joseph's Day
March 19, 2026 · Public
Nearby in the country calendar
See 2026 calendar
FAQ
Is Swiss National Day a public holiday in Switzerland?▾
Yes — Swiss National Day is listed as a public holiday in Switzerland on a nationwide basis.
When is Swiss National Day in Switzerland in 2027?▾
In 2027, Swiss National Day in Switzerland falls on August 1, 2027 (Sunday). Subsequent dates: 2028 August 1, 2028, 2029 August 1, 2029, 2030 August 1, 2030.
How is the date for Swiss National Day determined?▾
Swiss National Day is scheduled on August 1 each year. In the tracked 2025-2027 data window, it stays on August 1 and only the weekday changes. Because Swiss National Day stays on the same calendar date, the only year-over-year planning shift is the day of the week — that controls long-weekend math, school-closure timing, and how the holiday lands in payroll cycles.
What kind of holiday is Swiss National Day?▾
Swiss National Day is listed as a public holiday in Switzerland (nationwide), which usually means government offices, banks, and most schools close. It reads as a secular civic holiday with origins tied to Central Europe.
What is the local name for Swiss National Day in Switzerland?▾
The local catalog name for Switzerland is Bundesfeier; the English display name is Swiss National Day.
Where is Swiss National Day observed?▾
Swiss National Day is only listed for Switzerland in the current dataset.
What timezone should I use for Swiss National Day planning in Switzerland?▾
Switzerland uses Europe/Zurich (UTC+02:00) for local planning.
Which holidays are commonly planned alongside Swiss National Day?▾
Swiss National Day is often compared with Republic Day, New Year's Day, St. Berchtold's Day on the Switzerland calendar.