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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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2026.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2026
2. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 2026
3. Family Day : Monday, 6 April, 2026
4. Freedom Day : Monday, 27 April, 2026
5. Workers' Day : Friday, 1 May, 2026
6. Youth Day : Tuesday, 16 June, 2026
7. National Women's Day observance : Monday, 10 August, 2026
8. Heritage Day : Thursday, 24 September, 2026
9. Day of Reconciliation : Wednesday, 16 December, 2026
10. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2026

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

1. Human Rights Day : Saturday, 21 March, 2026
2. National Women's Day : Sunday, 9 August, 2026
3. Day of Goodwill : Saturday, 26 December, 2026