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How many working days in year 2015?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2015 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 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2015.

Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2015
2. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 2015
3. Labour Day : Friday, 1 May, 2015
4. National Day : Monday, 10 August, 2015
5. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2015

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. National Day : Sunday, 9 August, 2015