Plan your leave around long weekends

The situation

Everyone in the family wants to travel together, but everyone’s week is different. One person works Monday to Friday, another has only Sundays off, a bank employee gets the 2nd and 4th Saturdays, and a shop owner closes on Tuesdays. Generic “long weekends this year” lists assume Saturday and Sunday off and ignore your state’s holidays.

How OIOA helps

OIOA’s long-weekend planner works from your week:

• choose your state or union territory,
• set your regular weekly offs: Saturday and Sunday, Sunday only, Sundays with the 2nd and 4th Saturdays, or custom days,
• set the maximum leave days you’d take for a break.

It then lists possible long weekends, each with the official holidays involved and which days to apply leave, or “none needed”.

Step by step

1. Open Holidays from Everyday tools.
2. Choose your state or UT.
3. Open the long-weekend view and set weekly offs and max leaves.
4. Read the suggestions, then check them against your employer’s holiday list.
5. Share the plan with the family as a Family event or in a Group, so everyone can apply for leave in time.

Why suggestions use confirmed holidays only

The planner uses confirmed state and national holidays and leaves bank holidays out, so suggestions don’t depend on dates that may not apply to you or may still change. Entries that haven’t been independently verified are marked provisional, and restricted holidays are marked as not a guaranteed day off. Festival holidays that depend on the moon can shift after the list is published. Read planning long weekends in India for the details.

Good to know

• Suggestions assume your employer observes the selected official holidays. Check your own company or institution’s list.
• Holiday lists are saved for offline use once downloaded.
• National, state and bank holiday lists are all available to view in the app, by state or UT. See holidays and long weekends.