UK Holiday Entitlement Calculator
Calculate your statutory paid holiday entitlement under UK law. Choose regular hours for a fixed weekly pattern, or irregular hours for zero-hours, casual, or part-year contracts.
5 days/week × 5.6 = 28.0 days.
These are statutory minimums — your contract may entitle you to more.
Bank holidays (8 a year in England and Wales) do not have to be given as extra paid leave — your employer can count them as part of this statutory entitlement.
How statutory holiday works in the UK
Under the Working Time Regulations 1998, almost all workers in the UK are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks of paid holiday per year. For someone working a standard five-day week, that works out to 28 days. The entitlement is pro-rata for part-time workers, and it is capped at 28 days even if you work more than five days a week.
There are two different calculation methods because UK law treats regular and irregular workers differently. If you work a fixed weekly pattern, your entitlement is simply your days per week multiplied by 5.6. But if you are on a zero-hours, casual, bank, or part-year contract, a different accrual method applies since the Harpur Trust v Brazel ruling and the 2024 regulatory change — you accrue holiday at 12.07% of the hours you actually work in each pay period.
For example, someone who works 70 hours in a month accrues 70 × 12.07% ≈ 8.45 hours, rounded down to 8 hours of holiday for that month. And if you work for the NHS, you can check your Agenda for Change pay band and point with our NHS Pay Calculator.
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