Statutory holiday: 5.6 weeks, 28-day limit, part-time, irregular hours at 12.07%, leaving
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 16 Oct 2026.Almost every UK worker is entitled to 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year, which is 28 days for a 5-day week and 16.8 days for 3 days a week. Statutory leave is limited to 28 days, and irregular-hours workers build up 12.07% of the hours they work.
Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 16 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Choose days a week, hours a week or irregular hours.
Type the days or hours you work in a week, or the hours worked in the pay period.
For part of a year, choose Starting or Leaving and give the leave-year start and your date.
Read the statutory holiday for the year or the period, and what is still due when you leave.
Statutory holiday is the minimum paid annual leave an employer must give. This page works it out the way GOV.UK describes it, for regular days, regular hours and irregular hours.
Days a week. Multiply the days you work by 5.6. Five days gives 28 days, three days gives 16.8 days. The statutory amount is limited to 28 days, so someone working 6 days a week still gets 28.
Hours a week. Multiply your weekly hours by 5.6: 37.5 hours a week gives 210 hours. If you work more than 5 days, the hours are limited to 28 days' worth.
Irregular hours and part-year work. For leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024, workers whose hours change from one pay period to the next build up 12.07% of the hours worked in each pay period. GOV.UK rounds up to the next hour when the result is half an hour or more past a whole hour, so 30 hours gives 4 hours of leave.
Starting part way through the leave year. You get one-twelfth of the year's leave for each month left, counting the month you start in, rounded up to the nearest half day. Starting on 13 September in a January leave year counts 4 months: 9.33 days, rounded to 9.5.
Leaving part way through. What you have built up is the year's leave times the share of the leave year you worked. Leaving on 30 June after 181 days of a 365-day year gives 13.88 days for a 5-day week. Untaken statutory leave must be paid in your final pay.
Not included. Bank holidays, which an employer may count inside the 5.6 weeks, extra contractual leave, carry-over and holiday pay. An estimate, not legal advice.
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Almost all workers get 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year. For a 5-day week that is 28 days, for a 4-day week 22.4 days and for 3 days 16.8 days. Your employer can include bank holidays in that total or give them on top.
Statutory paid holiday is limited to 28 days. A worker on a 6-day week therefore still gets 28 days, not 33.6. Employers can offer more than the legal minimum, and contractual leave above 28 days can follow different rules, such as needing a length of service.
Irregular-hours and part-year workers build up 12.07% of the hours they actually work in each pay period, for leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024. GOV.UK rounds up to the next hour when the result is 0.5 or more past an hour: 30 hours earns 4 hours.
One-twelfth of the full year's leave for each month left in the leave year, counting the month you start, rounded up to the nearest half day. Someone on a 5-day week starting in the last 3 months of the leave year gets 7 days.
Your employer must pay for statutory leave you built up but did not take, even after a dismissal for gross misconduct. Work out the year's leave times the share of the leave year you worked, then take away the leave you already used.
Yes. Statutory holiday keeps building up during sick leave and during maternity, paternity and adoption leave. Leave you could not take because of sickness can be carried into the next year, up to 20 of the 28 days for regular-hours workers.
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