🇬🇧 United Kingdom Long Weekends 2026

United Kingdom has 5 long weekends in 2026: 2 four-day weekends, and 3 three-day weekends.

The longest is around Good Friday + Easter Monday, running from 3 April 2026 to 6 April 2026 — 4 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.