Dutch Working Days Calculator (Werkdagen) - Excluding Public Holidays
Count the working days between two dates, skipping weekends and Dutch public holidays such as King's Day and Ascension Day. Free and browser-based, nothing is uploaded.
Working days
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| Total days in range | 127 |
| Weekend days | 36 |
| Public holidays on weekdays | 1 |
Holidays excluded from the count
- Christmas DayFri, 25 Dec 2026
Dutch public holidays 2026
| 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Thu, 1 Jan 2026 | New Year's Day (Nieuwjaarsdag) | day off |
| Fri, 3 Apr 2026 | Good Friday (Goede Vrijdag) | working day |
| Sun, 5 Apr 2026 | Easter Sunday (Eerste Paasdag) | day off |
| Mon, 6 Apr 2026 | Easter Monday (Tweede Paasdag) | day off |
| Mon, 27 Apr 2026 | King's Day (Koningsdag) | day off |
| Tue, 5 May 2026 | Liberation Day (Bevrijdingsdag) | working day |
| Thu, 14 May 2026 | Ascension Day (Hemelvaartsdag) | day off |
| Sun, 24 May 2026 | Whit Sunday (Eerste Pinksterdag) | day off |
| Mon, 25 May 2026 | Whit Monday (Tweede Pinksterdag) | day off |
| Fri, 25 Dec 2026 | Christmas Day (Eerste Kerstdag) | day off |
| Sat, 26 Dec 2026 | Boxing Day (Tweede Kerstdag) | day off |
Counting Working Days the Dutch Way
A Dutch calendar year has 260 or 261 weekdays, but not all of them are working days. Official public holidays that fall on a weekday reduce the count: New Year's Day, Easter Monday, King's Day (27 April, or 26 April when the 27th is a Sunday), Ascension Day, Whit Monday, and both Christmas days. Liberation Day (5 May) is only a paid day off once every five years under most collective agreements, most recently in 2025, so this calculator counts it as a working day in other years.
Good Friday is the classic trap: it is an official holiday (officiele feestdag) but not a statutory day off, and most Dutch companies work normally while schools and banks close. The holiday table above marks it as a working day for that reason. Easter and Whitsun move with the lunar calendar, which is why Ascension Day can land anywhere from 30 April to 3 June and often creates a popular four-day weekend when combined with a Friday off.
Working day counts matter for project planning, delivery times, payroll, and legal deadlines. A sprint from 1 May to 31 May 2026 looks like 21 weekdays but shrinks once Ascension Day and Whit Monday are removed. HR teams use the same math for pro rata vacation accrual and for calculating whether a probation period or response deadline has expired.
This tool uses the same holiday engine as the ToolForte public holidays overview and REST API, computing Easter with the standard Meeus/Jones/Butcher algorithm, so dates are exact for any year. Need plain date math without the Dutch calendar? The Date Calculator adds or subtracts days from any date, and the PTO Calculator helps plan your vacation balance. Everything runs locally in your browser.
How the Working Days Calculator Works
- 01Pick a start and end date; both days are included in the count.
- 02Keep the Dutch public holidays toggle on to exclude official days off that fall on weekdays.
- 03Read off the working days, weekend days, and which holidays were excluded.
- 04Scroll down for the complete Dutch holiday calendar for every year in your range, including which days are actually days off.
Which Days Count as Working Days
The calculator counts Monday through Friday and removes official Dutch public holidays: New Year's Day, Easter Monday, King's Day, Ascension Day, Whit Monday, and both Christmas days. Liberation Day (5 May) counts as a day off once every five years, and Good Friday is deliberately counted as a working day because most Dutch companies work normally.
When to Use This Calculator
Use it for project and sprint planning, calculating delivery times in working days, checking legal or contractual deadlines, counting remaining working days before a holiday or your last day at work, and payroll or pro rata calculations.
Common Use Cases
- Plan a sprint or project phase in real working days instead of calendar weeks. Date Calculator - Add Days & Find Differences
- Count the working days until your contract ends after giving notice. Dutch Notice Period Calculator - Opzegtermijn and Last Working Day
- Check delivery or response deadlines that are defined in working days.
Tips
- May is the trap month: Ascension Day, Whit Monday, and sometimes Liberation Day can remove three working days.
- For multi-year planning the tool lists every holiday per year, so you can spot years where Christmas falls on a weekend.
- Combine with a bridge day (brugdag) strategy: one vacation day next to Ascension Day buys a four-day weekend.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Typically around 254 to 256. A year has 260 or 261 weekdays, and roughly 5 to 7 public holidays fall on a weekday depending on the year and on whether Liberation Day is a day off, which happens once every five years (most recently 2025).
- For most people, yes. Good Friday is an official holiday and schools, banks, and government offices often close, but most CAOs do not designate it as a paid day off. This calculator therefore counts it as a working day.
- King's Day is 27 April, but when that date is a Sunday the celebration and the public holiday move to Saturday 26 April. In those years it does not reduce the working day count at all, since it falls on a weekend either way.
- No, they move with the lunar calendar. Easter Sunday falls between 22 March and 25 April, and Ascension Day and Whit Monday follow 39 and 50 days later. The calculator computes them exactly with the standard Meeus/Jones/Butcher algorithm.
- Yes, the range is inclusive on both sides. Monday through Friday of one week is 5 working days. If you need the number of days between two dates exclusive of the start, shift the start date one day forward.
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