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How many working days in year 2024?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2024 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2024.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2024
2. Human Rights Day : Thursday, 21 March, 2024
3. Good Friday : Friday, 29 March, 2024
4. Family Day : Monday, 1 April, 2024
5. Workers' Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
6. Election day : Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
7. Youth Day observance : Monday, 17 June, 2024
8. National Women's Day : Friday, 9 August, 2024
9. Heritage Day : Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
10. Day of Reconciliation : Monday, 16 December, 2024
11. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
12. Day of Goodwill : Thursday, 26 December, 2024

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

1. Freedom Day : Saturday, 27 April, 2024
2. Youth Day : Sunday, 16 June, 2024