Bridge · Leave planner
The optimal days to take leave in South Africa in 2027 — using its public holidays and weekends — for the longest possible holidays. Slide your leave allowance to fit yours.
Tap any weekday to block it (a deadline you can’t take off) — the plan works around it.
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It looks at the whole year — your weekends and your country's public holidays — and computes the placement of your leave days that maximizes your total time off in long breaks. It doesn't guess; it's the provably optimal arrangement for your inputs, and it shows the leverage (e.g. 6 leave days → 24 days off, 4×).
A bridge is a working day sitting between two days off — take it and two short breaks merge into one long one. Take the Monday between a weekend and a Tuesday holiday and you get a four-day break for a single leave day. We list these separately so you can grab extra ones when you have flexibility.
Yes — it covers ~200 countries, with each country's own public holidays and its normal weekend (Sat–Sun, Fri–Sat in the Gulf, and so on). Pick your country and year and the plan updates.
Almost nothing — we detect your country and show the whole year by default. Just slide your leave-day count to match your allowance. That's it.
Yes — download an .ics to drop the leave days straight into Google/Outlook/Apple Calendar, or copy the link to share the exact plan (your country, year, and leave count are in the URL).
We use a well-maintained public-holiday dataset, but holidays get announced late and vary by region and sector — so treat this as planning and confirm your company's holiday list before booking. Public holidays are shown; regional ones are coming.
Different country? Open the leave planner and pick yours.