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🇳🇱Netherlands

The statutory minimum is four times the number of hours worked per week.

Statutory paid annual leave4 × weekly working hours (20 days for a 5-day worker)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedGovernment of the Netherlands
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How to make your leave go further

Public-holiday planning

  • King’s Day, Easter Monday, Ascension Day and Whit Monday are the main recurring dates to test.
  • Ascension Day is especially useful because it falls on a Thursday.
  • Your actual holiday entitlement may be higher than the statutory minimum under an employment agreement.

Legal basis and comparison method

The statutory minimum is four times the number of hours worked per week.

Regional and calendar caveats

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

Official employment source: Government of the Netherlands. Open official guidance ↗

This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.

Planner

The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.

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