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Leave Hacker
Turn your annual leave into the most days off
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Turn your annual leave into the most days off
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Leave Hacker finds the days of annual leave to book around bank holidays and weekends. In England and Wales, 25 days of leave in 2027 makes 64 days off. Free on iPhone, Android and the web, with school holidays by council, cheap trips and group planning.
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Hi Product Hunt, I'm Ollie, and I built Leave Hacker to answer one question properly: which days of leave should I book to get the most time off? Tell it where you work and how much leave you get, and in under a minute it plans your whole leave year on a wall planner: green for bank holidays, yellow for the days to book, blue for leave you've already booked.
Some numbers it works out, straight from gov.uk's bank holidays:
- Christmas 2026 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland: book Tue 29 to Thu 31 Dec (3 days) and you're off from Fri 25 Dec to Sun 3 Jan, 10 days. Scotland has 2 January as well, so the same 3 days give 11.
- 25 days of leave in 2027 makes 64 days off in England and Wales, 66 in Scotland and 65 in Northern Ireland.
- It also covers Ireland, every Australian state and territory, and the US (15 days of PTO in 2027 makes 40 days off with the federal holidays).
What else it does:
- Every break lists the exact days to ask for, with a message to send your manager
- Leave in days or hours, part-time patterns, shift rotas, carry-over and leave years that start in any month
- School holidays from 106 councils' own published term dates, for parents and school staff
- Cheap flights from your nearest airport for each break's exact dates, with stays and package holidays
- Plan with a partner or a group of friends to find breaks you can all take
- Share your year, or a single break, as a card for the group chat or your story
- On iPhone: widgets counting down to your next break, and it can read your calendars for leave you've booked and clashes. Calendar events never leave the phone.
You don't need an account. Sign-in is only there for partner and group planning and to keep devices in step. It's free: if you book a trip through one of our links, the travel site may pay us a commission, and those links are marked "Ad". Your plan is worked out before any trip is shown.
Leave Hacker is run by Bednal Limited, my company in the UK. I'd love to hear what's missing, especially if your leave works differently from the usual Monday to Friday.