# Calcul Congés Payés 2026 — French Statutory Leave

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

A French employee accrues 2,5 jours ouvrables of paid leave for each month of effective work, up to 30 jours ouvrables — five weeks — over a reference period running from 1 June to 31 May, and a part-time employee gets the same number as a full-timer.

**Tax year:** 2026

## How it is calculated

Article L3141-3 of the Code du travail: *"Le salarié a droit à un congé de deux jours et demi ouvrables par mois de travail effectif chez le même employeur"*, and *"La durée totale du congé exigible ne peut excéder trente jours ouvrables."* Thirty jours ouvrables is five weeks — a jour ouvrable is Monday to Saturday — which makes the French minimum the most generous of the three large European systems.

**The accrual is monthly, so a part-year figure steps rather than slides.** It is 2,5 per month worked, not a daily slice of the year, and when the result is not a whole number it is rounded **up**: service-public.gouv.fr gives the example itself — five months worked is 2,5 × 5 = 12,5, *"arrondi à 13 jours ouvrables"*. A calculator that pro-rates by days and rounds to the nearest half will be a day short for most of the year.

**And the page asks nothing about your working week, deliberately.** *"Le salarié travaillant à temps partiel a droit à la même durée de congés payés qu’un salarié travaillant à temps plein."* A French part-timer gets the same 30 jours ouvrables, not a proportional share — the reduction falls on the pay, not on the days. Every other page in this family multiplies by your days per week; doing that here would tell someone working three days a week that they get 15 days when the law gives them 30. The reference period runs 1 June to 31 May unless a collective agreement moves it.

## Worked example

With Last day worked in it of 2026-05-31, this model computes Days Entitled of 30.

## Inputs

| Name | Label | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `leaveYearStart` | Reference period starts (YYYY-MM-DD) | string |
| `leaveYearEnd` | Reference period ends (YYYY-MM-DD) | string |
| `workStart` | First day worked in it (YYYY-MM-DD) | string |
| `workEnd` | Last day worked in it (YYYY-MM-DD) | string |
| `daysTaken` | Days already taken | number |

## Sources

- [Code du travail art. L3141-3 — 2,5 jours ouvrables par mois de travail effectif; 30 jours ouvrables maximum (en vigueur depuis le 10 août 2016)](https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000033020826) (checked 2026-10-09)
- [service-public.gouv.fr F2258 — période de référence du 1er juin au 31 mai; arrondi à l’entier immédiatement supérieur; même durée à temps partiel](https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2258) (checked 2026-10-09)

## What this page claims

The Valem engine reproduces this model's formula through 7 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/france/holiday-entitlement.json
- Compute by URL: https://valem.run/calculators/france/holiday-entitlement.json
- MCP: https://valem.run/mcp/calculators (call `calculate` with calculator `france/holiday-entitlement`)