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How many working days in year 2039?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2039 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2039.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Easter Monday : Monday, 11 April, 2039
2. Europe Day : Monday, 9 May, 2039
3. Ascension Day : Thursday, 19 May, 2039
4. Whit Monday : Monday, 30 May, 2039
5. National Day : Thursday, 23 June, 2039
6. Assumption of Mary : Monday, 15 August, 2039
7. All Saints' Day : Tuesday, 1 November, 2039
8. St. Stephen's Day : Monday, 26 December, 2039

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2039
2. Labour Day : Sunday, 1 May, 2039
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2039