# Feriedager 2026 — 25 Virkedager, Fire Uker Pluss Én Dag

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

Ferieloven § 5 gives 25 virkedager of feriefritid each holiday year. A virkedag is any day that is not a Sunday or a public holiday, so Saturdays count — which makes 25 virkedager four whole weeks plus one day, or 21 working days on a five-day week. Anyone turning 60 during the year gets six more.

**Tax year:** 2026

## How it 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.

## Worked example

With Days you work per week of 5, this model computes Days Entitled of 21.

## Inputs

| Name | Label | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `daysPerWeek` | Days you work per week | number |
| `age` | Your age during the holiday year | number |
| `startedAfterSep30` | I started after 30 September of the holiday year | boolean |
| `daysTaken` | Days already taken | number |

## Sources

- [Ferieloven § 5 — Lovdata (25 virkedager and what a virkedag is; the six-virkedag bonus at 60; the 30 September cliff)](https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1988-04-29-21) (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/norway/holiday-entitlement.json
- Compute by URL: https://valem.run/calculators/norway/holiday-entitlement.json?daysPerWeek=5
- MCP: https://valem.run/mcp/calculators (call `calculate` with calculator `norway/holiday-entitlement`)