Customs Zurich's Böögg explodes after 26 minutes
The fire blazed under the Zurich Böögg for 26 minutes and 30 seconds on Monday. The weather in summer 2025 is expected to be correspondingly mediocre.
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The last bang was a long time coming - the first firecrackers of the Böögg at Sechseläuten 2025 exploded after around 16 minutes. It took another 10 minutes until the final bang.
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Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin (SVP) was among the more than 100 guests of honor.
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The spring-like weather attracted numerous spectators to Zurich Sechseläuten 2025.
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The procession of the guilds through Zurich's city center lasted around three hours.
Image: Keystone
The fire blazed under the Zurich Böögg for 26 minutes and 30 seconds on Monday. The weather in summer 2025 is expected to be correspondingly mediocre.
Image: Keystone
The last bang was a long time coming - the first firecrackers of the Böögg at Sechseläuten 2025 exploded after around 16 minutes. It took another 10 minutes until the final bang.
Image: Keystone
Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin (SVP) was among the more than 100 guests of honor.
Image: Keystone
The spring-like weather attracted numerous spectators to Zurich Sechseläuten 2025.
Image: Keystone
The procession of the guilds through Zurich's city center lasted around three hours.
Image: Keystone
The summer of 2025 will be average - at least if you believe the predictive power of Zurich's Böögg. It only exploded 26 minutes after the fire was lit on Sechseläutenplatz.
28.04.2025, 11:18
28.04.2025, 18:54
SDA
After 26 minutes and 30 seconds, the time had come: the Zurich Böögg finally went up in the air. The first firecrackers had already exploded around 10 minutes earlier. 26 minutes until the final bang is neither particularly long nor particularly short - and the summer of 2025 is expected to be correspondingly mediocre.
But there is hope: a statistical analysis of previous Böögg predictions was sobering, as "Meteonews" recently reported. The Böögg is actually a very poor summer prophet, and there is practically no discernible correlation between its predictions and the average temperature of the following summer.
The Böögg wore cherry earrings
"Cherries, crypto and clichés" was the motto of this year's guest canton of Zug, and the Böögg was decorated accordingly: with cherry earrings and bitcoin and cherry pie symbols on his bow tie.
Numerous spectators watched the parade of the guilds through Zurich's city center in the afternoon in beautiful spring weather. Among the more than 100 guests of honor this year were four Federal Councillors: Martin Pfister (center), Albert Rösti (SVP), Guy Parmelin (SVP) and Ignazio Cassis (FDP).
Last year, for the first time in the history of Sechseläuten, the burning of the Böögg had to be canceled at short notice. Due to strong gusts of wind, lighting the large bonfire would have been too dangerous. At the end of June, the "Böögg aazönde" was held in Heiden in last year's guest canton of Appenzell-Ausserrhoden.
