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How many working days in year 2024?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2024 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2024.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Uudenvuodenpäivä : Monday, 1 January, 2024
2. Pitkäperjantai : Friday, 29 March, 2024
3. 2. pääsiäispäivä : Monday, 1 April, 2024
4. Vappu : Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
5. Helatorstai : Thursday, 9 May, 2024
6. Itsenäisyyspäivä : Friday, 6 December, 2024
7. Joulupäivä : Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
8. Tapaninpäivä : Thursday, 26 December, 2024

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Loppiainen : Saturday, 6 January, 2024
2. Pääsiäispäivä : Sunday, 31 March, 2024
3. Helluntaipäivä : Sunday, 19 May, 2024
4. Juhannuspäivä : Saturday, 22 June, 2024
5. Pyhäinpäivä : Saturday, 2 November, 2024