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How many working days in year 2072?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2072 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 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 2072.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 2072
2. Epiphany : Wednesday, 6 January, 2072
3. Good Friday : Friday, 8 April, 2072
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 11 April, 2072
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 19 May, 2072
6. Independence Day : Tuesday, 6 December, 2072
7. St Stephen's Day : Monday, 26 December, 2072

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

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 10 April, 2072
2. May Day : Sunday, 1 May, 2072
3. Whit Sunday : Sunday, 29 May, 2072
4. Midsummer Day : Saturday, 25 June, 2072
5. All Saints' Day : Saturday, 5 November, 2072
6. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2072