Dutch holiday entitlement calculator (vakantie-uren)

How vakantie-uren in Netherlands is calculated

*"aanspraak op vakantie van ten minste vier maal de overeengekomen arbeidsduur per week of, als de overeengekomen arbeidsduur in uren per jaar is uitgedrukt, van ten minste een overeenkomstige tijd."* The Netherlands is the only country in this family whose statutory entitlement is a number of **hours**. The familiar "20 vakantiedagen" is nowhere in the article — it is what 4 × 40 hours happens to come to when a day is eight hours long.

**Which is why the day count misleads anyone not on a 5 × 8 week.** Thirty-six hours over four nine-hour days is 144 vakantie-uren, and 144 ÷ 9 is **16 days**. Sixteen is not less leave than twenty; it is the same four weeks, measured in longer days. A calculator that reports "20 days" to everyone has quietly changed the unit, and an employer tracking hours against a day-based expectation is the usual way this goes wrong.

**Part of a year is proportional, and the statute says so.** Lid 2: leave for part of a year is *"een evenredig gedeelte"* of the full-year entitlement — so unlike Austria, the Netherlands does pro-rate. Lid 3 lets a collective agreement compute it in whole months for someone leaving after at least a month, which this page does not model. Most Dutch contracts also grant **bovenwettelijke** vakantie-uren on top of this minimum, and those expire on different terms from the statutory ones.