How it works

Bridging

A "bridge" is a short stretch of leave that connects a weekend and a public holiday you already get for free into one longer break. The site looks at every public holiday in the year for your state, finds the gaps between them and the surrounding weekend, and works out how many days off you'd get for each day of leave you spend.

A real example: in Selangor in 2026, Chinese New Year falls on Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 February. The weekend before that is Saturday 14 and Sunday 15, which leaves Monday 16 as the only working day in between. Take that single day as leave, and four days of weekend and holiday turn into five days off in a row — Saturday 14 to Wednesday 18. One day of leave, four days back.

The planner runs this search over every combination in the year, not just the obvious ones, and sorts them by days off per day of leave spent, so the best trades — not just the biggest breaks — surface first.

Why states differ

Public holidays in Malaysia are a mix of federal and state matters. Some, like Merdeka Day and Chinese New Year, apply everywhere. Others — a state ruler's birthday, a state-specific Hari Hol, Thaipusam — apply only where that state government has gazetted them. Deepavali, for instance, is a public holiday almost everywhere but not in Sarawak. That's why the site asks for your state before it calculates anything: the same date can be a day off in one state and an ordinary Tuesday in another.

Three states — Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu — also use a Friday–Saturday weekend instead of Saturday–Sunday. That shifts which weekdays are free by default, which changes where the best bridges fall: a holiday landing next to a Thursday, for example, is far more useful in a Friday–Saturday state than in one that rests on Saturday and Sunday.

School terms: Group A and Group B

Malaysia's school calendar runs on two schedules, called Group A and Group B by the Ministry of Education. Group A — Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu, the same three Friday–Saturday states — runs its term breaks on a slightly different schedule from the rest of the country, which is Group B. The site shows the calendar for whichever group your selected state belongs to, so the school-holiday markers match the term dates that actually apply where you live.