How many hours is full time in Sweden?
Full time in Sweden is 40 hours a week, 8 hours a day Monday to Friday. That is the cap on ordinary working time in the Working Hours Act (section 5). In 2026 it adds up to 2,032 full-time hours for the year.
Use the calculator to turn a percentage into hours per day, week, month and year, or hours a week into a percentage.
Full and part time in hours
40 under the Working Hours Act. Change it if your agreement says otherwise.
Full time in numbers
The calculator takes 40 hours as full time. An employment contract is for full time unless something else is agreed (Employment Protection Act, section 4 a). If your collective agreement has a shorter full-time week, which section 3 of the Working Hours Act allows, type it in.
- Per week: 40 hours.
- Per day: 8 hours, Monday to Friday.
- Per month: 173.33 hours on average (40 × 52 ÷ 12). A single month has between 152 and 184 hours in 2026, depending on its working days.
- Per year: 2,032 hours in 2026 and 2,048 in 2027. If you also take Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve off, it is 2,008 and 2,024.
Part time in hours
The year column counts every weekday except public holidays, with no holiday leave taken off.
| Percent | Per week | Per day | Per month (average) | Year 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 40 h | 8 h | 173.33 h | 2,032 h |
| 90% | 36 h | 7.2 h | 156 h | 1,828.8 h |
| 80% | 32 h | 6.4 h | 138.67 h | 1,625.6 h |
| 75% | 30 h | 6 h | 130 h | 1,524 h |
| 60% | 24 h | 4.8 h | 104 h | 1,219.2 h |
| 50% | 20 h | 4 h | 86.67 h | 1,016 h |
| 25% | 10 h | 2 h | 43.33 h | 508 h |
Why years differ
Public holidays fall differently every year. Weekdays minus public holidays under the Public Holidays Act give 254 working days in 2026 and 256 in 2027. Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are not public holidays by law, so the calculator lets you choose. Month by month: working hours per month.
How Klokka does it
Klokka shows each person's hours for the month and their average per working day, and the employee sees the same numbers. Amir is employed at 75% and is on 141 hours in October. His contract gives 132 (22 working days × 6), so 9 hours are additional hours, and you both see that before payroll is run.