Minimum Holiday Allowance for every country mapped

Our helpful tool below will help you find your minimum allowance by selecting your country.

Select your country Iran Burkina Faso Cambodia Kuwait Algeria Azerbaijan Sri Lanka Georgia Malta Austria Mauritius Benin Syria Tanzania Yemen Bahrain Denmark Finland France Iceland Spain Afghanistan Luxembourg Madagascar Portugal Slovakia Belgium Cyprus Gabon Ivory Coast Lithuania Niger Peru Sweden Angola Belarus Colombia Croatia Czech Republic Guinea Hungary Poland Romania Russia Slovenia United Kingdom Zimbabwe Albania Armenia Italy Panama Senegal South Sudan United Arab Emirates Argentina Estonia Netherlands New Zealand Serbia Zambia Australia Burundi Chile Saudi Arabia Botswana Germany Ireland Pakistan Ukraine Egypt Ghana Kenya Nepal Uganda Belize Chad Haiti India South Africa Switzerland Turkey El Salvador Malaysia Rwanda Ethiopia Guatemala Morocco Qatar Uruguay Greece Myanmar Dominican Republic Ecuador Norway Lesotho Mauritania Paraguay Somalia Togo Vietnam Bangladesh Israel Liberia Moldova Nicaragua Costa Rica Honduras Mozambique Taiwan Singapore Thailand Philippines Tunisia Mongolia Mexico Indonesia Japan United States Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Cameroon Canada Central African Republic China Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kazakhstan South Korea Kosovo Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Libya Macedonia Malawi Mali Montenegro Namibia Nigeria Sierra Leone Sudan Uzbekistan Venezuela Holiday allowance based on a 5 day work week: {{ allowance }}

Interactive map

Visualisations are fun and easy to read so we took Wikipedia's List of minimum annual leave by country and converted it into a global chart.

The countries with the highest minimum holiday allowance are quite surprising, here are our favorites:

Kuwait - 35

Andorra - 31

Algeria - 30

Bahrain - 30

Iran - 26

Here are a few more interesting facts for you:

Andorra (a tiny country between Spain and France) mandates a period of at least two weeks uninterrupted rest per year

Countries such as Bahrain and Algeria scale the minimum allowance based on the time worked at the company (both capping the maximum to 30 days)

Austria requires an extra 5 days annual leave if your service exceeds 25 years!

In Libya your entitlement grows from 30 to 45 days once you turn 50 years old

Luxembourg grants "Extraordinary paid leave" of 1 day for moving house, 3 days for the death of a sibling, 6 days for getting married and a few more

Incase the interactive chart does not work for you here is an image version: