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How many working days in year 2023?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2023 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

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

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 2023.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day observance : Monday, 2 January, 2023
2. Human Rights Day : Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
3. Good Friday : Friday, 7 April, 2023
4. Family Day : Monday, 10 April, 2023
5. Freedom Day : Thursday, 27 April, 2023
6. Workers' Day : Monday, 1 May, 2023
7. Youth Day : Friday, 16 June, 2023
8. National Women's Day : Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
9. Heritage Day observance : Monday, 25 September, 2023
10. Rugby World Cup Victory : Friday, 15 December, 2023
11. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2023
12. Day of Goodwill : Tuesday, 26 December, 2023

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

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2023
2. Heritage Day : Sunday, 24 September, 2023
3. Day of Reconciliation : Saturday, 16 December, 2023