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How many working days in year 2026?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2026 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 14 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 247 working days in 2026.
Here is the list of these 14 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : thursday, january 1, 2026
2. Martin Luther King Day : monday, january 19, 2026
3. Susan B. Anthony Day (observance) : monday, february 16, 2026
4. Memorial Day : monday, may 25, 2026
5. Juneteenth National Independence Day : friday, june 19, 2026
6. Independence Day (observance) : friday, july 3, 2026
7. Labor Day : monday, september 7, 2026
8. Columbus Day : monday, october 12, 2026
9. Veterans Day : wednesday, november 11, 2026
10. Thanksgiving : thursday, november 26, 2026
11. Black Friday : friday, november 27, 2026
12. Christmas Eve : thursday, december 24, 2026
13. Christmas : friday, december 25, 2026
14. New Year's Eve : thursday, december 31, 2026
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Susan B. Anthony Day : sunday, february 15, 2026
2. Independence Day : saturday, july 4, 2026