Calculate holiday entitlement
Calculate leave days from a full-time annual entitlement, your working days per week and full months of employment.
Calculate holiday entitlement in three steps
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Enter the annual holiday and weekly working days of a comparable full-time role.
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Enter your own working days per week and full months of employment.
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Use the result as mathematical guidance and check your contract and rounding rules.
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How this tool calculates
The original entitlement is converted according to working days per week and then pro-rated by full months.
Your inputs and results remain on your device. Reloading the page restores the default values.
Data status and limitations
- Reference year
- 2026
- Calculation basis as of
- 2026-08-04
- Primary source
- Federal Leave Act (BUrlG)
- Scope
- Germany, statutory minimum leave and basic pro-rata calculation
- Not included
- Collective agreements, employment contracts, parental leave, illness, carry-over and special groups of employees
Terms used in this calculation
- Annual holiday
- Holiday entitlement for a complete employment year.
- Working days per week
- Days on which work is required, not the number of weekly hours.
- Pro-rated holiday
- Annual holiday converted for part of the year.
Frequently asked questions
Do my weekly hours or working days count?
For this conversion, what matters is how many days the work is spread across.
Is the result my binding legal entitlement?
No. Start date, qualifying period, contract, collective agreement and rounding may change the result.