Holidays & Festivals

Switzerland
Holidays:
January 1—New Year’s Day
January 2—Berchtold’s Day
Early April—Good Friday/Easter/Easter Monday
May 1—Labor Day
June 1—Ascension Day
Mid-June—Whit Sunday/Whit Monday
August 1—Confederation Day
November 1—All Saints’ Day
December 8—Immaculate Conception
December 25—Christmas Day
December 26—St. Stephen’s Day

Festivals:
February—Carnival
July—Montreux Jazz Festival
Fourth Monday in November—Onion Market in Bern

Germany
Holidays:
January 1—New Year’s Day
Early April—Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday
May 1—May Day
Early May—Ascension Day
Late May—Pentecost Sunday, Pentecost Monday
Early June—Corpus Christi
August 15—Assumption Day
October 3—Day of German Unity
October 31—Reformation Day
November 1—All Saints’ Day
Mid-November—Repentance Day
December 25—Christmas Day
December 26—Second Day of Christmas

Festivals:
February—Carnival
July/August—Wagner Festival in Bayreuth
September—Kulmbach Beer Festival; Wolznach Hop Festival; Durkheim Sausage Market
September/October—Berlin Festival; Oktoberfest in Munich
September/October—Moselle Wine Festivals
End of October—Frankenstein Festival in Darmstadt