# Public holidays

> In Weplanify, check and complete the year's public holidays: they are used by the planning, by leave counting, by the time clock and by payroll.

- Product: Weplanify (https://weplanify.io)
- Section: Leave & absences
- Web page: https://weplanify.io/docs/absences.jours-feries?lang=en
- Other language: https://weplanify.io/docs/absences.jours-feries.md
- Last updated: 2026-09-29

In Weplanify, the country's public holidays are loaded automatically; you adjust them in **Settings → Leave → Public holidays**.

![The Public holidays management window for 2026](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/weplanify/o/docs%2Fabsences%2Fmaj-2026-09-28%2Fab-feries-35f06521.webp?alt=media&token=dcb9a3e9-4eaa-4736-a627-693ecc05b659)

## Steps

1. Open **Settings → Public holidays**, or the settings button of the Leave and absences screen.
2. Check the rule **Public holidays count as paid rest days** and the year's list.
3. Click **Manage public holidays**, choose the **Year**, then fix a date with the pencil (a holiday whose date moves every year) or delete it.
4. For a day specific to the company: **Add**, name and date.

## What a public holiday does

- In the [planning](https://weplanify.io/docs/planning.planning-recurrent?lang=en), it is a rest day; it is flagged in the slot window.
- It is not [deducted from leave](https://weplanify.io/docs/absences.calcul-des-jours?lang=en).
- In the [time clock](https://weplanify.io/docs/pointage.liste-du-jour?lang=en), the employee is not counted absent if holidays are paid rest days; a site or an employee can have their own rule. In [payroll](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.presence?lang=en), a holiday worked is paid at a higher rate.

## Related guides

- [The usual week (recurring planning)](https://weplanify.io/docs/planning.planning-recurrent?lang=en) — In Weplanify, an employee's usual week comes back on its own every week, shifted days off included, without typing the same slots over again.
- [How absence days are counted](https://weplanify.io/docs/absences.calcul-des-jours?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the number of days of an absence depends on its type: calendar days for paid or unpaid absence, working days for leave taken from the balance.
- [See who is present, late, without an exit or absent](https://weplanify.io/docs/pointage.liste-du-jour?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the tabs of the day's list sort employees into present, late, no exit, absent or rest day, with a count for each of the groups.
- [Prepare the month's time and absences](https://weplanify.io/docs/paie.presence?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Time and absences step gives each employee's paid days, leave, absences and overtime, taken from the source chosen for their site.
- [Manage leave and absences](https://weplanify.io/docs/absences?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the Leave and absences screen gathers the whole team's requests, as a list or a calendar, with the requests to approve shown first.
- [Manage public holidays](https://weplanify.io/docs/configuration.jours-feries?lang=en) — In Weplanify, check the year's list of public holidays, say whether they are paid rest days, and add the days that are specific to your company.
- [Getting started with Weplanify](https://weplanify.io/docs/demarrage?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the web is for managers and the mobile app is for employees: here is where to start, from creating the account to the first published schedule.
- [The dashboard Getting started list](https://weplanify.io/docs/demarrage.premiers-pas?lang=en) — In Weplanify, the dashboard Getting started list shows what is left to do to get going, and each of its lines ticks itself once the step is done.