Long weekends and leave hacks, New South Wales 2026
More holiday, fewer leave days.
Pick your state, see every long weekend, then find the stretches where a few days of annual leave turn into a real break.
Long weekends in New South Wales 2026
Three or more days off in a row with no annual leave needed.
Leave hacks
Breaks of a week or more, ranked by days off per leave day. Book the highlighted weekdays.
How the hacks are worked out
We take every public holiday for your state or territory, add the weekends, and look for stretches where a few days of annual leave bridge the gaps. A hack is any run of seven or more days off that you can unlock when you take one to nine days, measured from the first day you would be off to the last. They are ranked by days off per leave day, so three days for a ten-day Christmas break (3.3×) beats four days for a nine-day Anzac break (2.3×). The budget planner picks the best non-overlapping hacks that fit the annual leave you have, then spends any days left over on short bridges such as a single day that turns a Thursday holiday into a four-day weekend.
Part-day holidays (such as Christmas Eve in SA, NT and QLD), regional-only days (show days, the Royal Hobart Regatta, Brisbane's Ekka) and restricted days (the NSW Bank Holiday, Tasmania's Easter Tuesday) are listed on the state pages but left out of the leave maths. Hacks assume you work Monday to Friday.