Work Calendar Calculator

Written byOleh Soloninupdated 5 October 2026

Year

Period

Non-working weekdays

Dates separated by spaces: public holidays and transferred days off that fall on weekdays. For 2026 the list is already complete.

Shortened pre-holiday days

Working days before a public holiday, one hour shorter under article 95 of the Russian Labour Code. Dates separated by spaces.

Advanced options

Working week, hours

Result

Periodthe 2026 calendar year
Calendar days365
Of which shortened by an hour4
Working days247
Weekends and holidays118
Holidays on weekdays14
Hour norm1,972
Hours per day8

Russian rules, with 2026 already filled in

Russia's official work calendar for 2026 by month and for the year — working days, days off and the statutory hour norm, with the government's weekend transfers built in.

Russian employers work from a production calendar: the number of working days and hours in each month under a five-day week. It sets the hour norm used to prorate salary for a partial month, to cost overtime and to plan leave.

For 2026 everything is already entered: the public holidays of article 112 of the Labour Code, the weekend transfers set by government decree No. 1466 of 24 September 2025, and the four pre-holiday days that are an hour shorter. The result matches the ConsultantPlus calendar: 247 working days and 1,972 hours on a 40-hour week. For another year, replace the dates in the two fields.

How to use

Choose the period: the whole year or a single month, such as the one you are paying salary for.
If the week is not 40 hours, open the extra fields and set 36 or 24 hours; the norm is recalculated with the same one-hour deductions.
For 2026 nothing else needs changing. For another year, enter that year's holidays and transferred days off that fall on weekdays, and its shortened pre-holiday days.
Use the month's hour norm for the hourly rate: salary divided by the norm, which then prices overtime and partial months.

The 2026 work calendar by month

The shortest month of the year is January, with 15 working days and 120 hours; the longest is July, with 23 days and 184 hours. The four shortened days — 30 April, 8 May, 11 June and 3 November — each take an hour off their month, which is why April's 22 working days make 175 hours rather than 176.

Source: ConsultantPlus work calendar for 2026; Russian Government decree No. 1466 of 24.09.2025. Checked 14 September 2026 — the calculator returns the same figures for every month.
Month	Calendar days	Working	Days off	Hours, 40-h week	36-h	24-h
January	31	15	16	120	108	72
February	28	19	9	152	136.8	91.2
March	31	21	10	168	151.2	100.8
April	30	22	8	175	157.4	104.6
May	31	19	12	151	135.8	90.2
June	30	21	9	167	150.2	99.8
July	31	23	8	184	165.6	110.4
August	31	21	10	168	151.2	100.8
September	30	22	8	176	158.4	105.6
October	31	22	9	176	158.4	105.6
November	30	20	10	159	143	95
December	31	22	9	176	158.4	105.6
2026	365	247	118	1,972	1,774.4	1,181.6

Public holidays and transferred days off in 2026

Article 112 of the Labour Code lists the non-working public holidays: 1–6 and 8 January for the New Year, 7 January for Orthodox Christmas, 23 February, 8 March, 1 May, 9 May, 12 June and 4 November. When a holiday falls on a weekend, the day off moves to the next working day. In 2026 8 March is a Sunday, so 7–9 March are days off; 9 May is a Saturday, giving three days off from 9 to 11 May.

The January holidays follow a different rule: the two weekend days that coincide with them are moved by government decree to other dates in the year. In 2026 Saturday 3 January moved to Friday 9 January and Sunday 4 January to Thursday 31 December. So the New Year break ran from 31 December 2025 to 11 January 2026, and 31 December 2026 is a day off — while 30 December stays a full day, because the one-hour cut applies only before a public holiday.

How the hour norm is calculated

The norm is worked out on a notional five-day week with Saturday and Sunday off, as the procedure approved by Ministry of Health and Social Development order No. 588n of 13 August 2009 requires. Weekly hours are divided by five, multiplied by the working days in the period, and an hour is taken off for each shortened pre-holiday day.

Formula: norm = weekly hours ÷ 5 × working days − shortened days. For 2026 on a 40-hour week: 8 × 247 − 4 = 1,972 hours. On 36 hours: 7.2 × 247 − 4 = 1,774.4. The cut is an hour whatever the week length, so the same four hours come off at 24 hours too: 4.8 × 247 − 4 = 1,181.6.

The norm is the same for a five-day week, a six-day week and shift work, because order No. 588n computes it on the notional five-day week for everyone. Only the way the hours are spread across days differs; under summarised accounting they are compared with the norm for the whole accounting period rather than day by day.

Using the norm in pay calculations

On a monthly salary the hourly rate is the salary divided by the month's hour norm. A salary of 80,000 roubles gives 80,000 ÷ 120 ≈ 666.67 an hour in January 2026 and 80,000 ÷ 184 ≈ 434.78 in July: the same salary puts a different price on an hour in different months.

For a partial month, the salary is divided by the month's working days and multiplied by the days worked. Ten days out of fifteen in January earn two thirds of the salary; the same ten days out of 23 in July earn less than half — which is why partial months are never prorated by calendar days.

What this calculator shows

Working days, weekends and holidays for the chosen period
The hour norm, less the shortened pre-holiday days
How many holidays landed on weekdays — those are the ones that shorten the norm

What to keep in mind

Saturday and Sunday are treated as weekends; a six-day week or a shift rota has the same hour norm, spread differently across the days.
Shortened pre-holiday days take an hour each. They are filled in for 2026; enter your own for another year.

FAQs

How many working days are there in Russia in 2026?

247 on a five-day week, four of them an hour shorter: 30 April, 8 May, 11 June and 3 November. There are 118 days off and public holidays, and the hour norm is 1,972 on a 40-hour week.

How is the hour norm derived?

Working days times the shift length: 8 hours on a 40-hour week, 7.2 on a 36-hour week, 4.8 on a 24-hour week, less an hour for each shortened pre-holiday day.

Where does the holiday list for another year come from?

Article 112 of the Labour Code lists the permanent dates, and an annual government decree sets the weekend transfers. For 2026 it is decree No. 1466 of 24 September 2025.

What if a holiday falls on a weekend?

The day off moves to the next working day, as with 9 March and 11 May 2026. The exception is the January break: the two weekend days that coincide with it are moved by government decree to other dates in the year.

Why does the norm matter on a fixed salary?

It gives the hourly rate — salary divided by the month's norm — which is the basis for partial-month pay and every overtime supplement.

How do I build the calendar for 2027?

Enter the 2027 holidays that fall on weekdays and the shortened days. 1 January 2027 is a Friday, and 2 and 3 January are a Saturday and a Sunday, so where those two days off move will be decided by the government's transfer decree for 2027.

Worked example

August 2026

Input: 2026, August, official holiday list, 40-hour week

Output: 21 working days, 168 hours

Note: August has no public holidays, so the norm is simply 8 × 21. January, with the New Year break and the 9 January transfer, has only 15 working days and 120 hours.

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