# Vuosiloman Laskeminen 2026 — 2,5 Arkipäivää Kuukaudessa

Source page: https://valem.run/calculators/finland/holiday-entitlement

Vuosilomalaki 5 § accrues 2,5 arkipäivää for every full qualifying month, or 2 if your employment has lasted under a year, and rounds a part day up. Twelve months is 30 arkipäivää — but 4 § counts Saturdays as arkipäivät, so those 30 days are five weeks, which is 25 working days on an ordinary five-day week.

**Tax year:** 2026

## How it is calculated

*"Työntekijällä on oikeus saada lomaa kaksi ja puoli arkipäivää kultakin täydeltä lomanmääräytymiskuukaudelta."* Twelve of those is **30**, the largest annual-leave figure published anywhere in Europe — more than the UK’s 28, more than Austria’s 30 Werktage reads like, and well over Germany’s 24. Finland is not, however, the most generous country in Europe, and the reason is the unit.

**4 § 3) defines an arkipäivä as any weekday other than Sunday and seven named holidays.** Saturdays count. So the statutory year of 30 arkipäivää is five six-day weeks, and on an ordinary five-day week that is **25 working days** — the same as Sweden, and four fewer than the raw numbers suggest. Any page that compares Finland’s 30 with the UK’s 28 without saying this is comparing two different things.

**5 § has one threshold, not a band table.** If your employment has run unbroken for less than a year by the end of the leave year, the rate is 2 arkipäivää a month rather than 2,5 — 24 a year, or 20 working days. There is no further step for longer service: a thirty-year employee and a two-year employee accrue at the same rate.

**And the statute sets its own rounding, upward.** *"Loman pituutta laskettaessa päivän osa pyöristetään täyteen lomapäivään."* Seven qualifying months is 17,5 and therefore **18** arkipäivää. Note where it applies: to the length in arkipäivää, which is what 5 § is computing — so this calculator rounds before converting into your week, not after.

**A month only counts if it qualifies.** 6 § asks for at least 14 työssäolopäivää in the calendar month — or at least 35 työtuntia, for people whose pattern never reaches 14 days in any month at all. A month of light work is not a month of accrual, which is why this page asks for qualifying months rather than months employed.

## Worked example

With Full qualifying months in the leave year of 12, this model computes Days Entitled of 25.

## Inputs

| Name | Label | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `qualifyingMonths` | Full qualifying months in the leave year | number |
| `serviceUnderOneYear` | Employment had lasted under a year by the end of the leave year | boolean |
| `daysPerWeek` | Days you work per week | number |
| `daysTaken` | Days already taken | number |

## Sources

- [Vuosilomalaki (162/2005) 4 § 3) — finlex.fi, ajantasa (what an arkipäivä is: every weekday but Sunday and seven named holidays)](https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2005/20050162) (checked 2026-10-11)
- [Vuosilomalaki (162/2005) 5 § — finlex.fi, ajantasa (2,5 arkipäivää per full qualifying month; 2 under a year of service; a part day rounds up)](https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2005/20050162) (checked 2026-10-11)
- [Vuosilomalaki (162/2005) 6 § — finlex.fi, ajantasa (a full qualifying month is 14 työssäolopäivää, or 35 työtuntia where no month reaches 14 days)](https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2005/20050162) (checked 2026-10-11)

## What this page claims

The Valem engine reproduces this model's formula through 10 self-test cases. That shows internal consistency, not that the formula matches current law; the cited sources are the evidence for that. Estimate, not tax advice.

## For agents

- Model manifest (formula, constants, test vectors): https://valem.run/calculators/finland/holiday-entitlement.json
- Compute by URL: https://valem.run/calculators/finland/holiday-entitlement.json?qualifyingMonths=12
- MCP: https://valem.run/mcp/calculators (call `calculate` with calculator `finland/holiday-entitlement`)