Holidays

Add the public holidays of the countries and regions where your people work, so that Leavely does not count them as Leave Days.

Where to find it

In Leavely, go to Settings > Holidays. The table shows one row for each Holiday Location:

• Location: the country, and the region if there is one.
• Assigned employees: how many employees use the Holiday Location, of all employees.
• Years: each imported year, with its number of holidays.

Holiday Locations

A Holiday Location is a country, or a region of a country, whose public holidays apply to the employees assigned to it. Each employee has one Holiday Location or none. To set it, go to Settings > Employees, open the employee, and select a Holiday Location in Employment. See Employment details.

The public holidays of a Holiday Location are not counted as Leave Days in the Leave Requests of its employees. They also show on the Wall Chart, in My Year and in Upcoming Holidays on Summary. An employee without a Holiday Location has no public holidays in Leavely.

Leavely has a list of public holidays for about 200 countries. For some countries, such as the United States, Germany and Australia, you can also select a region. A region's holidays include the national public holidays of its country. A country and one of its regions are two different Holiday Locations.

Import public holidays

To add a Holiday Location, import its holidays for a year. Leavely creates the Holiday Location with the first import.

An import does not assign the Holiday Location to anyone. Select it for each employee in Employees, when you add them or later. The Owner starts with no Holiday Location, and accepting an invitation does not set one.

To add the year after the latest imported year, select the view button in the row of the Holiday Location, then select Add and the year, such as Add 2027. To add any other year, use Import Holidays.

Replace the holidays of a year

If the list of public holidays for a year has changed, import the year again.

See or delete the holidays of a year

Select the view button in the row of a Holiday Location. The dialog shows the holidays of each imported year, with their dates and names.

To delete a year, select its tab, then select Delete and the year, such as Delete 2026. Confirm with Delete.

If the year is the last imported year of the Holiday Location, Leavely also deletes the Holiday Location. Its employees then have no Holiday Location. If employees use it, the confirm button is Delete & Unassign.

Delete a Holiday Location

In the row of the Holiday Location, select the delete button, then select Delete Location. Leavely deletes all its imported years. Its employees then have no Holiday Location. You cannot undo this.

Rules and limits

• Leavely imports only public holidays. It does not import bank holidays, observances or other types of holiday from the list.
• You can import a year from three years before the current year to three years after it.
• You cannot add or edit a holiday yourself. Leavely imports the whole list for the year.
• Holiday names are in the language of the country, such as German names for Germany.
• Leavely does not import a new year automatically. Import each year before people request leave in it.
• Leavely imports holidays for calendar years, January to December. If your Leave Calendar starts in another month, import both years that it covers.

How it affects Leave Days

A public holiday of the employee's Holiday Location on a working day is not counted as a Leave Day. A holiday on a day that is not a working day for your company changes nothing.

In this example, the company works Monday to Friday, and the employee's Holiday Location has a public holiday on Monday, August 31, 2026. All the dates are in one Leave Calendar.

In the first request, Leavely counts Thursday, Friday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It does not count Saturday and Sunday, because they are not working days, or Monday, because it is a public holiday. A half day needs a company that allows half-day leave. To learn more about how Leavely counts days, see Request leave. Leavely rejects a request that has no working day left after the holidays. See Leavely rejects the request.

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