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Holiday planning

Long Weekend Finder

Find long weekends and possible bridge-day opportunities for a selected country and year. Use it to spot realistic time-off windows before booking travel, planning office coverage or scheduling launches.

Best used for

  • Time-off planningFind periods where one public holiday can create a three-day or longer break.
  • Bridge-day decisionsIdentify cases where taking one workday off may connect a holiday with a weekend.
  • Operational coveragePlan support, travel and launch schedules around likely low-availability periods.

Formula and method

This tool uses the Nager.Date /api/v3/LongWeekend/{Year}/{CountryCode} endpoint. It does not infer bridge days from hardcoded local rules. When bridge-day fields are missing or empty, the table says so rather than inventing suggestions.

Long weekends

Start dateEnd dateDaysNeeds bridge dayBridge days
Run the calculator to load long weekends.

Example

If a public holiday falls on a Friday, a Friday-to-Sunday period can become a 3-day long weekend. If a holiday falls on Thursday, Nager.Date may mark Friday as a bridge-day opportunity when the API has that data.

Limitations

Holiday and bridge-day data is fetched from Nager.Date. The API does not represent every employer policy, school calendar, bank-only holiday or local observance. Use official local sources before making legal, HR, payroll, travel or compliance decisions.

Last reviewed: 2026-05-18

Before relying on this result

Use this calculator together with the formula, assumptions, limitations and examples on the page. If the topic involves health, tax, lending, investment, legal, safety or current-rate decisions, treat the number as an estimate and check the relevant primary source or professional guidance.

Calculator metadata last reviewed: 2026-05-18.