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How many working days in year 2053?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2053 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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2053.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2053
2. Human Rights Day : Friday, 21 March, 2053
3. Good Friday : Friday, 4 April, 2053
4. Family Day : Monday, 7 April, 2053
5. Freedom Day observance : Monday, 28 April, 2053
6. Workers' Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2053
7. Youth Day : Monday, 16 June, 2053
8. Heritage Day : Wednesday, 24 September, 2053
9. Day of Reconciliation : Tuesday, 16 December, 2053
10. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2053
11. Day of Goodwill : Friday, 26 December, 2053

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

1. Freedom Day : Sunday, 27 April, 2053
2. National Women's Day : Saturday, 9 August, 2053