How many working days in year 2009?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2009 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 2009.
Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2009
2. Epiphany : Tuesday, 6 January, 2009
3. Good Friday : Friday, 10 April, 2009
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 13 April, 2009
5. May Day : Friday, 1 May, 2009
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 21 May, 2009
7. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2009
And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 12 April, 2009
2. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 31 May, 2009
3. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 20 June, 2009
4. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 31 October, 2009
5. Independence Day : Sunday, 6 December, 2009
6. St Stephen's Day : Saturday, 26 December, 2009