Long weekends and bridge days by country and year

These guides surface yearly long-weekend opportunities generated from public holiday datasets. Each page ranks opportunities by efficiency, showing “bridge days” you can take off to unlock longer consecutive time off around weekends and public holidays.

Practical uses include PTO planning, vacation optimization, HR coordination, staffing, and travel planning.

Opportunities depend on public holidays and how they land on the calendar. Different countries have different holidays, placements change year to year, and workweek conventions can differ.

For example:

• Monday/Friday holidays often create easy long weekends
• some regions use Sunday–Thursday schedules
• substitute/observed holidays can create extra bridges
• regional holidays can change local opportunities

This affects staffing coverage, leave planning, travel demand, and operational scheduling for teams working across countries.

The guide looks for weekends and public holidays, then detects small working-day gaps between “off” days. Those gaps become candidate bridge days.

• identify weekends and public holidays
• detect small working-day gaps between off-days
• compute the resulting consecutive off-day stretch
• rank opportunities by efficiency

For custom schedules or more advanced scenarios, use the bridge days calculator or the API.

Use the browser guides for quick lookup, and use the HolidayDB APIs for automation and integrations. The same logic powers both guides and calculators.

See the API docs, or explore calculators for interactive queries. Related hubs: working days and public holidays.