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How many working days in year 2040?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2040 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2040.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Easter Monday : Monday, 2 April, 2040
2. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 2040
3. Europe Day : Wednesday, 9 May, 2040
4. Ascension Day : Thursday, 10 May, 2040
5. Whit Monday : Monday, 21 May, 2040
6. Assumption of Mary : Wednesday, 15 August, 2040
7. All Saints' Day : Thursday, 1 November, 2040
8. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2040
9. St. Stephen's Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2040

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2040
2. National Day : Saturday, 23 June, 2040