# Public holidays for household staff by canton, 2026 and 2027: method

Every date comes from the dated canton lists the Helpore rules engine holds, each with its official source and the day it was read. Where the official text says more than the engine's list, the study reads the text and quotes it in the source ledger: the contract list of Valais, the two lists of Fribourg and the paid days of Schaffhausen and Geneva.

A working day here is Monday to Friday. A household's contract may set another week: in Vaud, Jura, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Lucerne the standard contract does not guarantee a free Saturday, so a Saturday holiday can fall on a working day too. We show Saturday holidays separately.

The days a Helper paid by the hour is paid for are those of federal law and of the canton's standard contract. A contract may agree more. The clauses of the household's employment contract, which Helpore prepares from the details the household enters, are shown apart.

## Limits

* Days a single commune keeps are not in the counts; in Aargau and Fribourg the district and part lists are.
* Schaffhausen's standard contract does not say for which public holidays the household pays; the study counts every day of the canton's law on public rest days and marks the count unverified.
* In Solothurn May Day is a rest day from noon; the list counts the whole day. Some of its holidays do not apply in the district of Bucheggberg.
* This study states the rules as written. It is not legal advice for a single contract.

The canton file, the source ledger and this text are built from the same model as the study page, so they always show the same figures.