Holiday Entitlement Calculator 2025/26
Calculate your statutory annual leave entitlement for any working pattern — full-time, part-time, shift workers, irregular hours, or term-time only. Includes accrued holiday for mid-year starters and leavers, and bank holiday treatment.
UK statutory holiday entitlement 2025/26
All workers (not just employees) are entitled to a minimum of 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday per year under the Working Time Regulations 1998. For a standard 5-day week, that’s 28 days — which may or may not include the 8 bank holidays in England and Wales (your contract determines this).
Part-time workers receive the same 5.6 weeks pro rated to their contracted days. The minimum cannot be replaced by a payment in lieu, except on termination of employment.
From 1 April 2024, the rules for holiday pay for irregular and part-year workers changed significantly. The 12.07% method (still shown here as an option) was abolished as the primary calculation method following the Supreme Court’s Harpur Trust v Brazel ruling. The new method uses a 52-week reference period, averaging hours worked over weeks in which work was actually done (up to 52 weeks back), with non-working weeks excluded from the average.
