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Holiday Entitlement Calculator

Work out your statutory holiday entitlement in the UK. Set your days per week, or use hours for casual work, and see your paid leave for a full year or a part year. Free, no signup.

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How many days a week you work, from 1 to 7
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Your holiday entitlement
28.0 days
That's the statutory minimum for 5.0 days a week.
Full-year entitlementBefore any part-year pro-rating28.0 days
In weeks5.6 weeks
Statutory holidayMinimum paid leave, days a year28.0 days
Working part-time? The pro rata salary calculator works out your pay to match these days.
Statutory minimum of 5.6 weeks, capped at 28 days for a 5-day week. Your employer may offer more, and bank holidays can count towards this. A guide, not advice.
Simon Chadwick
Simon Chadwick
Founder, Orbit Money
Method: 5.6 weeks statutory holiday (gov.uk)Updated: 15 July 2026Sources: gov.uk holiday entitlement

How holiday entitlement is calculated in the UK

Almost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. This is the statutory minimum. To turn it into days, multiply the number of days you work each week by 5.6. A five-day week gives 28 days, which is where the familiar 28-day figure comes from. The statutory entitlement is capped at 28 days, so working six or seven days a week does not push the legal minimum any higher, though many employers offer more.

Part-time holiday entitlement

Part-time workers get the same 5.6 weeks, pro-rated to the days they work. The sum is days per week × 5.6. So four days a week gives 22.4 days, three days gives 16.8 days, and two days gives 11.2 days. Because the entitlement scales with your days, a part-time worker is never worse off per day than a full-time colleague.

Starting or leaving part-way through the year

If you start a job or leave part-way through the leave year, your holiday is pro-rated to the portion of the year you are there. Start halfway through the year on a five-day week and you are entitled to roughly half of 28 days, so about 14 days. Employers generally round any part-day up in your favour.

Irregular hours and casual workers

For leave years beginning on or after 1 April 2024, workers with irregular hours or who work only part of the year accrue holiday at 12.07% of the hours they work. The 12.07% comes from 5.6 weeks divided by the 46.4 working weeks left in the year. So 1,000 hours worked builds up about 120.7 hours of paid holiday. Switch the calculator to irregular hours to work this out.

Do bank holidays count towards the 5.6 weeks?

There is no automatic legal right to take bank holidays off, and no legal right to extra pay for working them. An employer can include the eight UK bank holidays within your 5.6 weeks, or grant them on top. What happens in practice comes down to your contract, so treat the calculator figure as the statutory floor and read your terms for anything above it.

Frequently asked questions

How do I calculate holiday entitlement?
Multiply the number of days you work each week by 5.6. That gives the statutory minimum, capped at 28 days. So five days a week is 28 days, four days is 22.4 days, and three days is 16.8 days. For irregular hours, holiday accrues at 12.07% of the hours you work instead.
How many holidays do I get if I work 4 days a week?
Four days a week gives 22.4 days of statutory paid holiday a year (4 × 5.6). Your employer may offer more than the statutory minimum, but it cannot be less.
How many bank holidays do I get if I work 3 days a week?
Three days a week gives 16.8 days of statutory holiday a year (3 × 5.6). There is no separate legal right to bank holidays. Bank holidays can be counted towards your 5.6 weeks, so how they are handled depends on your contract.
Does 28 days include bank holidays?
It can. The statutory minimum is 5.6 weeks, which is 28 days for a five-day week, and an employer is allowed to include the eight bank holidays within that 28 days. Bank holidays are not an automatic extra by law, so check your contract.
How much annual leave do you accrue per 40-hour week?
Statutory holiday is set by days worked per week, not hours, so a full-time week gives 5.6 weeks of paid leave, which is 28 days at the statutory cap. If your hours are irregular, you accrue holiday at 12.07% of the hours you actually work.
How is holiday worked out when you start or leave part-way through the year?
Your entitlement is pro-rated to the share of the leave year you are employed. If you start halfway through a leave year on a five-day week, you get roughly half of 28 days, so about 14 days. Employers usually round part-days up.

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Simon Chadwick
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Simon Chadwick
Founder of Orbit Money

Simon is the founder of Orbit Money, a tool that helps people track subscriptions and recurring spend. He builds Orbit's free money calculators and writes about personal finance for UK and Australian readers.

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This tool gives the statutory minimum holiday entitlement as a guide, not employment advice. Your employer may offer more, and your contract governs bank holidays. Figures follow gov.uk.