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How many working days in year 2015?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2015 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2015.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Uudenvuodenpäivä : Thursday, 1 January, 2015
2. Loppiainen : Tuesday, 6 January, 2015
3. Pitkäperjantai : Friday, 3 April, 2015
4. 2. pääsiäispäivä : Monday, 6 April, 2015
5. Vappu : Friday, 1 May, 2015
6. Helatorstai : Thursday, 14 May, 2015
7. Joulupäivä : Friday, 25 December, 2015

And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Pääsiäispäivä : Sunday, 5 April, 2015
2. Helluntaipäivä : Sunday, 24 May, 2015
3. Juhannuspäivä : Saturday, 20 June, 2015
4. Pyhäinpäivä : Saturday, 31 October, 2015
5. Itsenäisyyspäivä : Sunday, 6 December, 2015
6. Tapaninpäivä : Saturday, 26 December, 2015