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How many working days in year 2042?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2042 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2042.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Uudenvuodenpäivä : Wednesday, 1 January, 2042
2. Loppiainen : Monday, 6 January, 2042
3. Pitkäperjantai : Friday, 4 April, 2042
4. 2. pääsiäispäivä : Monday, 7 April, 2042
5. Vappu : Thursday, 1 May, 2042
6. Helatorstai : Thursday, 15 May, 2042
7. Joulupäivä : Thursday, 25 December, 2042
8. Tapaninpäivä : Friday, 26 December, 2042

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

1. Pääsiäispäivä : Sunday, 6 April, 2042
2. Helluntaipäivä : Sunday, 25 May, 2042
3. Juhannuspäivä : Saturday, 21 June, 2042
4. Pyhäinpäivä : Saturday, 1 November, 2042
5. Itsenäisyyspäivä : Saturday, 6 December, 2042