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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. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2024
2. Good Friday : Friday, 29 March, 2024
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 1 April, 2024
4. May Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 9 May, 2024
6. Independence Day : Friday, 6 December, 2024
7. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
8. St Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 2024

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

1. Epiphany : Saturday, 6 January, 2024
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 31 March, 2024
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 19 May, 2024
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 22 June, 2024
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 2 November, 2024