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Work · July 23, 2025

Vacation Maximizer – Maximize PTO by taking days off around holidays

Hey! In my last job I was constantly wondering when it would be best to take days off so I could enjoy the most days off in a row, so I made this tool! It tries to schedule PTO around holidays so that you get the most consecutive time off while spending as few days as possible. You can set some constraints, customize the holidays and define mandatory vacation days (in case your company mandates them). If you try for 2025, you should see results for the rest of the year. If there are unscheduled days, it's because there isn't a particularly good period to take them off. (I should make this…

Vacation Maximizer – Maximize PTO by taking days off around holidays launched on July 23, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

Free PTO optimizer that calculates the best days to take vacation around holidays. Maximize consecutive days off: turn 10 PTO days into 40+ days off. No signup required.

Public holidays land on different weekdays every year. Line your PTO up with them and the same allowance stretches into far longer breaks. Pick your country below to see which days are worth booking. Days you already have to take. They come out of your allowance. Pick a country to load its public holidays, or add your own. Already worked out for the countries we see most, with the exact days tofrom vacation-maximizer.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey! In my last job I was constantly wondering when it would be best to take days off so I could enjoy the most days off in a row, so I made this tool! It tries to schedule PTO around holidays so that you get the most consecutive time off while spending as few days as possible. You can set some constraints, customize…

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