# Orlofsréttur 2026 — Tveir Dagar Fyrir Hvern Unninn Mánuð

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

Article 3 of lög 30/1987 gives two orlofsdagar for each worked month of the leave year, counting half a month or more as a whole month — so a full year is 24 days. Sundays, public holidays and the first five Saturdays of the leave do not count as orlofsdagar, which means that for a Monday-to-Friday week all 24 are working days actually taken off.

**Tax year:** 2026

## How it is calculated

*"Orlof skal vera tveir dagar fyrir hvern unninn mánuð á síðasta orlofsári og reiknast hálfur mánuður eða meira heill mánuður en skemmri tími telst ekki með."* Two days a month, twelve months, **24 days** — and a part month rounds at the half, so fifteen days of a month earns the full two days and fourteen earns nothing.

**The unit is the most precisely drawn in this comparison.** *"Sunnudagar og aðrir helgidagar teljast ekki orlofsdagar né heldur fyrstu fimm laugardagar í orlofi."* Sundays and public holidays never count. Nor do the **first five Saturdays** of the leave. From the sixth Saturday onward, they do. Germany and Norway charge you for every Saturday; Sweden charges for none; Iceland drew the line in the middle on purpose.

**And the two numbers fit together exactly.** Five free Saturdays cover five weeks of Monday-to-Friday leave, which is 25 days. The maximum annual entitlement is 24. So the sixth-Saturday rule can never bite a five-day employee, and Iceland becomes the one country here whose published figure and real figure are the same number — not because the unit is simple, but because the statute sized its exception to cover the entitlement it grants.

**A third rounding direction.** Sweden, Poland and Finland all round a part **day** up. Iceland rounds a part **month**, and at the half. That is a cliff inside the accrual rather than a tidy-up at the end of it, and it is the only half-up rule in this family.

**Two rules on timing.** Article 4 requires the leave to be taken in one block between 2 May and 15 September, and lets collective agreements shorten the summer leave to at least 14 days. The leave year itself runs 1 May to 30 April — one more answer to “which year?” in a family that already has five.

## Worked example

With Months worked in the leave year of 12, this model computes Days Entitled of 24.

## Inputs

| Name | Label | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `monthsWorked` | Months worked in the leave year (1 May – 30 April) | number |
| `daysTaken` | Orlofsdagar already taken | number |

## Sources

- [Lög um orlof 30/1987, 3. gr. — althingi.is (two orlofsdagar per worked month; half a month counts as a whole one; Sundays, public holidays and the first five Saturdays of the leave are not orlofsdagar)](https://www.althingi.is/lagas/nuna/1987030.html) (checked 2026-10-11)

## What this page claims

The Valem engine reproduces this model's formula through 8 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/iceland/holiday-entitlement.json
- Compute by URL: https://valem.run/calculators/iceland/holiday-entitlement.json?monthsWorked=12
- MCP: https://valem.run/mcp/calculators (call `calculate` with calculator `iceland/holiday-entitlement`)