UK holiday entitlement calculator

How holiday entitlement in United Kingdom is calculated

The entitlement is expressed in **weeks**, not days, and that single fact resolves most of the confusion around it. GOV.UK: *"Almost all people classed as workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year."* Multiply by your own working week and you have your figure in days — GOV.UK gives the worked example itself: *"if they work 3 days a week, they must get at least 16.8 days’ leave a year (3 × 5.6)."* This page uses that example as one of its self-tests, so the arithmetic is checked against the authority rather than against our own reading of it.

There is then a ceiling: *"Statutory paid holiday entitlement is limited to 28 days."* So a six-day week does **not** give 33.6 days. This is the one place a naive 5.6 × days-per-week calculator overstates the law, and it overstates it for exactly the workers least likely to be told otherwise.

**Bank holidays are the real trap, and it runs the other way.** GOV.UK is explicit that *"Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave"* and that *"An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave."* So "28 days including bank holidays" and "28 days plus bank holidays" are different offers, and only the second exceeds the minimum. The 28 here is the whole legal entitlement, whichever way your employer counts them.