2027 Long Weekend Maximizer
Every country's public holidays create runs of three or more consecutive days off when a holiday lands next to the weekend. We computed every such run for 2027 in 50 countries, straight from the same engine behind the API - no separate spreadsheet, no hand curation. Ranked by total days off across all of them.
This counts what a country's calendar hands you for free. It does not yet count the extra stretch a single well-placed vacation day can buy by bridging a holiday to the weekend (that "bridge day" optimizer is next up); for now, spend the one PTO day yourself on the gaps you see in the "best run" column. Dates marked estimated depend on lunar or lunisolar calendars not yet fixed this far out and may shift by a day or two once local authorities confirm them.
| # | Country | Long weekends | Total days off | Best run |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ColombiaCO | 13 | 40 | 4d, 2027-03-25 → 2027-03-28 |
| 2 | South KoreaKR | 10 | 31 | 4d, 2027-02-06 → 2027-02-09 |
| 3 | ChileCL | 9 | 27 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 4 | the United StatesUS | 9 | 27 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 5 | ArgentinaAR | 8 | 27 | 5d, 2027-03-24 → 2027-03-28 |
| 6 | New ZealandNZ | 8 | 27 | 4d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-04 |
| 7 | NigeriaNG | 8 | 27 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 8 | ThailandTH | 8 | 26 | 4d, 2027-05-01 → 2027-05-04 |
| 9 | EgyptEG | 7 | 23 | 5d, 2027-05-14 → 2027-05-18 |
| 10 | JapanJP | 7 | 23 | 5d, 2027-05-01 → 2027-05-05 |
| 11 | Hong KongHK | 7 | 22 | 4d, 2027-02-06 → 2027-02-09 |
| 12 | IrelandIE | 7 | 21 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 13 | VietnamVN | 5 | 21 | 7d, 2027-02-04 → 2027-02-10 |
| 14 | AustraliaAU | 6 | 20 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 15 | TurkeyTR | 6 | 20 | 5d, 2027-05-15 → 2027-05-19 |
| 16 | the United KingdomGB | 6 | 20 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 17 | South AfricaZA | 6 | 19 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 18 | BruneiBN | 5 | 18 | 4d, 2027-02-05 → 2027-02-08 |
| 19 | OmanOM | 4 | 17 | 6d, 2027-03-08 → 2027-03-13 |
| 20 | FinlandFI | 5 | 16 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 21 | KenyaKE | 5 | 16 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 22 | the PhilippinesPH | 5 | 16 | 4d, 2027-03-25 → 2027-03-28 |
| 23 | BahrainBH | 4 | 16 | 5d, 2027-03-09 → 2027-03-13 |
| 24 | KuwaitKW | 4 | 16 | 5d, 2027-03-09 → 2027-03-13 |
| 25 | PolandPL | 5 | 15 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 26 | SingaporeSG | 5 | 15 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 27 | Saudi ArabiaSA | 3 | 15 | 6d, 2027-03-09 → 2027-03-14 |
| 28 | the United Arab EmiratesAE | 4 | 14 | 4d, 2027-05-15 → 2027-05-18 |
| 29 | JordanJO | 3 | 13 | 5d, 2027-03-09 → 2027-03-13 |
| 30 | AustriaAT | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 31 | BelgiumBE | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 32 | CanadaCA | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 33 | FranceFR | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 34 | IndiaIN | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-03-20 → 2027-03-22 |
| 35 | ItalyIT | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 36 | MexicoMX | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 37 | SpainES | 4 | 12 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 38 | NepalNP | 3 | 12 | 6d, 2027-10-06 → 2027-10-11 |
| 39 | DenmarkDK | 3 | 11 | 5d, 2027-03-25 → 2027-03-29 |
| 40 | IndonesiaID | 3 | 11 | 5d, 2027-03-06 → 2027-03-10 |
| 41 | NorwayNO | 3 | 11 | 5d, 2027-03-25 → 2027-03-29 |
| 42 | GermanyDE | 3 | 10 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 43 | the NetherlandsNL | 3 | 10 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 44 | QatarQA | 2 | 10 | 5d, 2027-03-09 → 2027-03-13 |
| 45 | BrazilBR | 3 | 9 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 46 | MalaysiaMY | 3 | 9 | 3d, 2027-02-06 → 2027-02-08 |
| 47 | PortugalPT | 3 | 9 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
| 48 | SwedenSE | 2 | 7 | 4d, 2027-03-26 → 2027-03-29 |
| 49 | IsraelIL | 2 | 6 | 3d, 2027-04-22 → 2027-04-24 |
| 50 | SwitzerlandCH | 1 | 3 | 3d, 2027-01-01 → 2027-01-03 |
Notes
Weekend definitions are each country's own (Friday-Saturday, split weekends, and so on - see the weekend reference), so a "long weekend" here means real non-working days, not a Western assumption. Every country page links to that country's full 2027 calendar and a business-day calculator preset to it. Want this for a country not listed, another year, or as JSON? That's exactly the API - the free tier covers this whole table many times over in a single day's quota.
Computed 2026-09-01T21:32:10Z from the dataset also served at /health.