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How many working days in year 2044?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2044 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 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 2044.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 2044
2. Human Rights Day : Monday, 21 March, 2044
3. Good Friday : Friday, 15 April, 2044
4. Family Day : Monday, 18 April, 2044
5. Freedom Day : Wednesday, 27 April, 2044
6. Workers' Day observance : Monday, 2 May, 2044
7. Youth Day : Thursday, 16 June, 2044
8. National Women's Day : Tuesday, 9 August, 2044
9. Day of Reconciliation : Friday, 16 December, 2044
10. Day of Goodwill : Monday, 26 December, 2044

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

1. Workers' Day : Sunday, 1 May, 2044
2. Heritage Day : Saturday, 24 September, 2044
3. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2044