We map your working days
Your schedule determines whether Saturdays count as leave. Sundays, your normal weekends and official public holidays are treated as non-working days.
LeaveLekker Built for South African public holidays
Make your leave
go further. 🇿🇦
Find the smartest days to book annual leave around South African public holidays and weekends.
For example4 leave days→9 consecutive days off
Official datesGovernment-verified holidays
Private by designNo account or personal details
Smarter planning, minus the spreadsheet
How LeaveLekker finds the best days to take leave
Let the optimiser compare combinations across the whole year, or use the interactive calendar to test your own leave dates as you click.
Optimise or choose your own
Use a recommended plan, or pick work days on the calendar and see the complete break they create around weekends and public holidays.
You get a bookable plan
Every suggestion shows the exact leave dates, the complete continuous break, included public holidays and the efficiency ratio.
Accurate by design
South African public holidays, handled properly.
LeaveLekker includes the legal rule that when a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is also a public holiday. Dates are stored year by year so they can be checked and updated cleanly.
View the official source ↗Holiday data last checked 17 August 2026. Future-year dates follow the Public Holidays Act, verified Easter dates and the Sunday-observation rule. They are rechecked when government publishes each annual list.2026 South African public holidays13 dates
New Year’s Day
Human Rights Day
Good Friday
Family Day
Freedom Day
Workers’ Day
Youth Day
National Women’s Day
National Women’s Day observedObserved
Heritage Day
Day of Reconciliation
Christmas Day
Day of Goodwill