Weekend maxing · 2027
11 long weekends. 34 days off. Zero PTO. Every US federal-holiday long weekend in 2027, with the exact dates and the evening you should leave town.
The trick is treating the evening before as part of the trip: leave Thursday or Friday after work and you can be 300 miles away — or a 4-hour flight away — before bedtime. That makes each of these 11 weekends enough for a real trip: a national park, a beach town, a city you've been meaning to see. WeekendMax shows every destination in range from your city for each weekend, sortable by travel time, total budget, and how crowded it's predicted to be.
US federal holidays create 11 long weekends in 2027 — 34 total days off without using any PTO. That includes Thanksgiving, which is effectively a 4-day weekend.
New Year's Day (Friday, January 1 – Sunday, January 3); MLK Day (Saturday, January 16 – Monday, January 18); Presidents' Day (Saturday, February 13 – Monday, February 15); Memorial Day (Saturday, May 29 – Monday, May 31); Juneteenth (Friday, June 18 – Sunday, June 20); Independence Day (Saturday, July 3 – Monday, July 5); Labor Day (Saturday, September 4 – Monday, September 6); Columbus Day (Saturday, October 9 – Monday, October 11); Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 25 – Sunday, November 28); Christmas Day (Friday, December 24 – Sunday, December 26); New Year's Day (Friday, December 31 – Sunday, January 2).
Leave the evening before the weekend starts — a Thursday or Friday evening departure makes drives up to ~6 hours and flights up to ~5 hours realistic, which puts hundreds of US destinations in range without taking a day off.