Public Holiday Geneva. This year 2021 , the number of days holidays falling on the weekend is of 4. Thursday after 1st sunday in september.
New year’s day ( neujahrstag) 18 april (monday): It dates back to the 16th century when people fasted as a way of remembering famines, plagues, and wars. January 1st, holy friday, easter monday, ascension day, whit monday, swiss national holiday (august 1st), “jeûne genevois”, christmas (december 25th) and new year’s eve, totalling nine days in the year (cf.