Guggen music, masks and rustic customs: Switzerland has many carnival traditions to offer. And many carnival festivals, as this map shows.
Leo Helfenberger
Reto Fehr
This weekend the carnival celebrations really start in many places. Dirty Thursday is on February 8 and Carnival Monday is on February 12. In short: the coming weeks will be holidays in the 5th season for many people.
Would you really like to go there, but you don’t know exactly where the carnival is in your area? We have put together a number of festivals, parades and customs for you and put them on a map of Switzerland. So you no longer have an excuse not to appear at a festival near you!
Do you not want to perform at one festival, but at several festivals? Here are all events on the map in chronological order. It is quite possible that the carnival celebrations, which started with the first dates in January, will still continue in February. But some are already over. If the date 2025 is known, we have added this:
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