Holiday days in Belgium 2026: calculate your leave
How much statutory holiday you have this year depends on what you worked last year. Choose your status and working pattern, enter your months or days and you see your number of days at once, with the rule for anyone who started during the year.
Calculate your holiday days
Statutory holiday days in 2026: 20 days
We count 12 full months. That is 4 weeks in your pattern.
You have the maximum: 4 weeks in your pattern.
How we calculate
- Your holiday in the holiday year follows from your work in the reference year, the calendar year before. Days worked count, and so do days treated as worked, such as sickness or your own holiday.
- White-collar employees: every full month counts. A full year full-time gives 20 days in a five-day week and 24 in a six-day week; for fewer months we use the table per month. If you started on the first of a month, that month counts; if you started later, only the next month counts.
- Blue-collar workers: the holiday fund counts your days worked and treated as worked, converted to a full-time five-day system, and applies the RJV table: from 231 days you have 20 holiday days. If you work a six-day week, we convert your days by 5/6 and the result back by 6/5.
- Part-time: the same calculation, in proportion to your work, with a maximum of 4 weeks in your own pattern. If you work 2 full days a week all year, you are entitled to 8 days.
- Youth holiday: if you tick that you graduated last year and were under 25 on 31 December, we show how many days of youth holiday you can add until you reach 4 weeks. The tool does not check the conditions themselves.
What this tool deliberately does not calculate
Your employer may count a month that began before the 16th or ended after the 15th as a full month, or give one day per month started. That is their choice and not a right, so the tool only counts full months. A change of working pattern between last year and this year is not calculated either: you keep your accrued days, but with a maximum of 4 weeks in your new pattern.
Supplementary holiday, also called European holiday, is for anyone who starts or restarts work after a long period without work. Together with your ordinary days it gives you up to 4 weeks of holiday a year, but the number depends on what you have already worked in the current year: six months of work gives two weeks. As holiday pay you receive an advance on next year's holiday pay.
Youth holiday is a right, not an obligation. In the reference year you must have finished your studies, be under 25 on 31 December, then have been under an employment contract for at least a month with at least 13 working days, and take your ordinary holiday days first. For each day of youth holiday you get 65% of your capped wage from the RVA, not pay from your employer.
Frequently asked questions
How many holiday days do I have as a full-time employee?
If you worked full-time all of last year, you have 20 statutory holiday days this year in a five-day week and 24 in a six-day week, 4 weeks either way. That applies to white-collar and blue-collar workers. Your collective agreement or employer can add extra days.
I only started working last year. How much holiday do I have?
As a white-collar employee your full months count. Anyone who started on 1 October has three full months and so 5 days in a five-day week or 6 in a six-day week. If you graduated last year and were under 25, youth holiday can top you up to 4 weeks. Otherwise, look at supplementary holiday.
Do I build up holiday days as a student worker?
Not during your 650 hours at the solidarity contribution: holiday and holiday pay only exist for those who pay ordinary social contributions. If you then work full-time as an ordinary employee, you build up holiday from that point for the following year.
Where do I find my number of days as a blue-collar worker?
On the holiday certificate from your holiday fund and in the RJV online service My holiday account. It also shows your combined holiday entitlement if you were affiliated with several holiday funds.
What does the next indexation do to your pay?
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Please note: This is an indication based on the statutory rules and the sources at the bottom of this page, not legal or tax advice. Your collective agreement, your work rules or your payslip may differ; when in doubt, check with your employer, your payroll provider or your union.
Sources
All sources checked on 13 November 2026.
- Securex Lex4You, hoe lang duurt de jaarlijkse vakantie voor bedienden (bijgewerkt 27 januari 2025)
- Securex Lex4You, hoe lang duurt de jaarlijkse vakantie voor arbeiders (bijgewerkt 20 januari 2026)
- Securex Lex4You, hoe wordt de vakantie van deeltijdse werknemers bepaald (bijgewerkt 20 januari 2026)
- Securex Lex4You, wat is jeugdvakantie (bijgewerkt 20 januari 2026)
- RJV, berekening vakantiedagen (tabel en maximum per regime)
- RJV, vakantieduur en Mijn vakantierekening
- RJV, (her)beginnen of aanvullende vakantie
- Sociale zekerheid, jaarlijkse vakantie voor burgers (aanvullende vakantie, voorschot)
- FOD Werkgelegenheid, jeugdvakantie
- Student@work, je loon en voordelen (geen vakantie binnen het urenpakket)
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