Sources & data methodology
HolidayMaximizer separates public-holiday calendars from employment-law annual-leave context. The global ranking uses a normalized annual-leave value plus a conservative public-holiday baseline; exact dated holidays remain a separate calendar dataset.
Public-holiday calendars
Selected regional calendars are stored locally. Broader country and first-level subdivision coverage uses the Nager.Holidays Community API v4 ↗. For years or subdivisions not stored locally, the planner requests the API in the browser and caches successful responses in local storage to avoid unnecessary repeat requests.
Verified annual-leave sources
Every country in the verified ranking now has a comparable five-day-week value. Weeks are converted to five workdays; statutory six-day counts are normalized to five; calendar-day leave periods use a 5/7 ratio. The normalized number is a comparison aid, not a replacement for the legal wording.
| Country | Headline entitlement | 1-year equivalent | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Argentina | 14 calendar days up to 5 years; longer bands with seniority | 10 | Argentina — Ley de Contrato de Trabajo ↗ |
| 🇦🇺 Australia | 4 weeks (20 days for a 5-day worker) | 20 | Fair Work Ombudsman ↗ |
| 🇦🇹 Austria | 5 weeks (25 days on a 5-day week) | 25 | Austria — oesterreich.gv.at ↗ |
| 🇧🇪 Belgium | Up to 4 weeks (normally 20 days on a 5-day schedule) | 20 | Belgian FPS Employment ↗ |
| 🇧🇷 Brazil | 30 calendar days after a 12-month acquisition period | 21.4 | Brazil Ministry of Labour and Employment ↗ |
| 🇧🇬 Bulgaria | At least 20 working days | 20 | Bulgaria — Ministry of Justice / Labour Code ↗ |
| 🇨🇦 Canada | Federal baseline: 2 weeks after 1 year; 3 after 5; 4 after 10 | 10 | Government of Canada ↗ |
| 🇨🇱 Chile | 15 working days after more than one year of service | 15 | Chile — Dirección del Trabajo ↗ |
| 🇨🇳 China | 5 days after 1 year of cumulative work; 10 from 10 years; 15 above 20 years | 5 | China — Shanghai Government portal ↗ |
| 🇨🇴 Colombia | 15 consecutive working days after one year | 15 | Colombia — SUIN Juriscol / Labour Code ↗ |
| 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | Two weeks after 50 weeks of continuous service (≈10 workdays on a 5-day week) | 10 | Costa Rica — Ministry of Labour and Social Security ↗ |
| 🇭🇷 Croatia | At least 4 weeks | 20 | Croatia — Government Point of Single Contact ↗ |
| 🇨🇾 Cyprus | 4 weeks (20 working days on a 5-day week) | 20 | Cyprus Government — Paid annual leave ↗ |
| 🇨🇿 Czechia | At least 4 weeks | 20 | Czech Republic — Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ↗ |
| 🇩🇰 Denmark | 5 weeks (about 25 days on a 5-day week) | 25 | Life in Denmark / FerieKonto ↗ |
| 🇪🇪 Estonia | 28 calendar days; public and national holidays excluded | 20 | Estonia — Riigi Teataja ↗ |
| 🇫🇮 Finland | About 4 weeks equivalent initially; about 5 weeks after one full leave-earning year | 20 | Finland — Suomi.fi ↗ |
| 🇫🇷 France | 5 weeks; statutory counting can be 30 working days including Saturdays (≈25 five-day workdays) | 25 | Service-Public.fr ↗ |
| 🇬🇪 Georgia | At least 24 working days annually | 24 | Georgia — Legislative Herald (Matsne) ↗ |
| 🇩🇪 Germany | 24 statutory working days where Saturdays count (≈20 days on a 5-day week) | 20 | German Federal Ministry of Justice – BUrlG §3 ↗ |
| 🇬🇷 Greece | 20 working days on a 5-day week initially, rising to 22 | 20 | Greece — Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs ↗ |
| 🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 7 days after 12 months, rising to 14 days with service | 7 | Hong Kong Labour Department ↗ |
| 🇭🇺 Hungary | 20 working days base entitlement; additional days depend on age and other factors | 20 | Hungary — National Legislation Database ↗ |
| 🇮🇸 Iceland | Minimum 24 working days | 24 | Iceland — Government of Iceland ↗ |
| 🇮🇪 Ireland | 4 working weeks (normally 20 days on a 5-day week) | 20 | Citizens Information Ireland ↗ |
| 🇮🇹 Italy | At least 4 weeks | 20 | Italy — Ministry of Labour and Social Policies ↗ |
| 🇯🇵 Japan | 10 days after 6 months, rising with service to 20 days | 10 | Japan Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare ↗ |
| 🇯🇴 Jordan | 14 days annually; 21 days after 5 years with the same employer | 14 | Jordan — Ministry of Labour ↗ |
| 🇰🇪 Kenya | At least 21 working days after 12 consecutive months | 21 | Kenya Law — Employment Act ↗ |
| 🇱🇻 Latvia | At least 4 calendar weeks, excluding public holidays | 20 | Latvia — Ministry of Welfare ↗ |
| 🇱🇹 Lithuania | At least 20 workdays on a 5-day week | 20 | Lithuania — State Labour Inspectorate ↗ |
| 🇱🇺 Luxembourg | At least 26 working days | 26 | Luxembourg — Guichet.lu ↗ |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | 8 days under 2 years; 12 days at 2–5 years; 16 days above 5 years | 8 | Malaysia Government — Labour Law ↗ |
| 🇲🇹 Malta | 192 hours for a 40-hour week (24 eight-hour days), plus certain public-holiday replacements | 24 | Malta — Department for Industrial and Employment Relations ↗ |
| 🇲🇺 Mauritius | 20 working days plus 2 additional days each year (22 total) | 22 | Mauritius — Ministry of Labour, Workers’ Rights Act ↗ |
| 🇲🇽 Mexico | 12 working days after the first year, increasing with service | 12 | Mexico — Diario Oficial de la Federación ↗ |
| 🇲🇪 Montenegro | At least 20 working days on a 5-day week (24 on a 6-day week) | 20 | Montenegro Government — labour-law information ↗ |
| 🇳🇱 Netherlands | 4 × weekly working hours (20 days for a 5-day worker) | 20 | Government of the Netherlands ↗ |
| 🇳🇿 New Zealand | 4 weeks after 12 months | 20 | Employment New Zealand ↗ |
| 🇳🇴 Norway | 25 statutory working days where Saturdays count (4 weeks + 1 day) | 21 | Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority ↗ |
| 🇴🇲 Oman | At least 30 days of annual leave; available after 6 months | 21.4 | Oman — Ministry of Labour ↗ |
| 🇵🇾 Paraguay | 12 working days from 1–5 years; 18 above 5–10; 30 above 10 | 12 | Paraguay — Ministry of Labour (MTESS) ↗ |
| 🇵🇪 Peru | 30 calendar days after a full year, subject to eligibility conditions | 21.4 | Peru — SUNAFIL ↗ |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | 5 days of paid service incentive leave after 1 year (with statutory exemptions) | 5 | Philippines — Department of Labor and Employment ↗ |
| 🇵🇱 Poland | 20 days; 26 days from 10 years of qualifying service | 20 | Poland — State Labour Inspection ↗ |
| 🇵🇹 Portugal | At least 22 working days | 22 | Portugal — gov.pt ↗ |
| 🇶🇦 Qatar | At least 3 weeks after 1 year; 4 weeks from 5 years | 15 | Qatar — Al Meezan legal portal ↗ |
| 🇷🇴 Romania | At least 20 working days | 20 | Romania — Legislative Portal / Labour Code ↗ |
| 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia | 21 days; 30 days after 5 consecutive years with the same employer | 15 | Saudi Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development ↗ |
| 🇷🇸 Serbia | At least 20 working days annually | 20 | Serbia — Government entrepreneurship information portal ↗ |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | 7 days in year 1, rising to 14 days from year 8 | 7 | Singapore Ministry of Manpower ↗ |
| 🇸🇰 Slovakia | At least 4 weeks | 20 | Slovakia — Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family ↗ |
| 🇸🇮 Slovenia | At least 4 weeks | 20 | Slovenia — SPOT government portal ↗ |
| 🇿🇦 South Africa | 21 consecutive days per annual-leave cycle | 15 | South Africa Department of Employment and Labour ↗ |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | 15 days after a full year with at least 80% attendance; increases with service | 15 | South Korea — National Law Information Center ↗ |
| 🇪🇸 Spain | At least 30 calendar days | 21.4 | Spain — General State Administration ↗ |
| 🇸🇪 Sweden | 25 days of annual leave | 25 | Sweden — Government Offices / Annual Leave Act ↗ |
| 🇨🇭 Switzerland | At least 4 weeks (5 weeks until age 20) | 20 | Switzerland — ch.ch ↗ |
| 🇹🇼 Taiwan | 7 days after 1 year; 10 after 2; 14 after 3; 15 after 5; then increases after 10 | 7 | Taiwan — Ministry of Labor, Labor Standards Act ↗ |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | At least 6 working days after 1 year | 6 | Thailand — Ministry of Labour ↗ |
| 🇬🇧 UK | 5.6 weeks (28 days for a 5-day worker; bank holidays may be included) | 20 | GOV.UK ↗ |
| 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | 30 days after 1 year (private sector) | 21.4 | UAE Government ↗ |
| 🇺🇸 United States | No general federal statutory paid vacation minimum | 0 | U.S. Department of Labor ↗ |
| 🇺🇾 Uruguay | Minimum 20 days of annual paid leave | 20 | Uruguay — Ministry of Labour and Social Security ↗ |
| 🇻🇳 Vietnam | 12 working days after 12 months in normal conditions; +1 day per 5 years with the same employer | 12 | Vietnam — Ministry of Justice legal database ↗ |
Public-holiday benchmark in the ranking
The ranking uses a conservative numeric public-holiday baseline so every row can be sorted without depending on a live API. Where states, provinces, cantons or nations differ, the lower/common figure is used and the row is labelled accordingly. Exact year-specific dates in the planner come from the locally curated calendars and Nager.Holidays Community API v4. Public holidays do not always create a statutory paid day off for every private-sector worker.
Corrections
Employment law and holiday calendars change. If you find an error, email contact@kattegatstudio.dk with the country, year and an official source.
Global annual-leave coverage
HolidayMaximizer prefers national legislation and official labour authorities. To avoid blank comparisons for countries whose primary law has not yet been encoded, the comparison/ranking can use a clearly labelled secondary cross-country statutory benchmark. Territories and special jurisdictions are never assigned a parent-country entitlement automatically.
2027 worked-guide calendar references
The following sources were checked on 2026-10-17 for the calendar assumptions used in the ten worked guides. Calendar rules and leave entitlement are separate: a holiday date does not guarantee that every worker is off.
- Denmark calculations — Danmarks Nationalbank. National calendar.
- UK calculations — GOV.UK. England and Wales.
- Ireland calculations — Workplace Relations Commission. National calendar.
- Germany calculations — Berlin.de. Berlin example.
- France calculations — Service Public. Metropolitan national calendar.
- Netherlands calculations — Government.nl. Bundled planning calendar.
- Italy calculations — Italia.it. National calendar.
- United States calculations — U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Federal observed calendar, Monday–Friday schedule.
- Austria calculations — Austrian Foreign Ministry holiday calendar. National calendar.
- Belgium calculations — Belgian FPS Employment. National dates before employer replacement days.
Corrections in this release
Italy: added 4 October from 2026 under Law 151/2025. Scotland: added the 15 June 2026 bank holiday listed by GOV.UK. Bundled future calendars are planning inputs and can change after new official announcements.
The wider directory remains usable while its detailed guides are developed. Only the ten worked English country guides are currently offered as indexable country landing pages; French country pages remain available to readers.
Holiday API responses expire from the browser cache after one day. A regional calendar is not silently replaced by national data when a regional selection is active.