Norwegian holiday entitlement calculator (feriefritid)

How feriefritid in Norway is calculated

*"Arbeidsgiver plikter å sørge for at arbeidstaker gis feriefritid på 25 virkedager hvert feriår,"* and the same subsection defines the unit: *"Som virkedager regnes alle dager som ikke er søndager eller lovbestemte helge- eller høytidsdager."* Saturdays are virkedager. So 25 of them is four whole weeks with one day left over — **21 working days** for someone on a five-day week, and exactly 25 for someone on six.

**Five weeks is normal in Norway and it is not the law.** Most Norwegian employees have 25 *arbeidsdager*, five full weeks, but that comes from a tariffavtale or a contract. The Act gives four weeks and a day. The gap between what nearly everyone has and what the statute guarantees is a day and a half of working time, which matters precisely when there is no collective agreement to fall back on.

**Two rules most calculators leave out.** § 5(2): *"Arbeidstaker som fyller 60 år i løpet av feriåret, skal gis ekstraferie på 6 virkedager"* — a whole extra week, and it is keyed to turning 60 *during* the year, not to already being 60. And § 5(3) is a cliff that runs the generous way: *"Arbeidstaker som tiltrer senest 30 september i feriåret, har rett til full feriefritid"*. Start on 30 September and all 25 virkedager are yours; start on 1 October and you get six. Nothing in between.

**What this page does not compute is the money.** Norwegian holiday splits the two: feriefritid is the time off, under § 5, and feriepenger is the pay, under § 10, earned on the *previous* calendar year’s wages. The proportional part of a Norwegian part year falls on the pay, not on the days — which is why the days here are a cliff and not a fraction.