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How many working days in year 2056?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2056 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

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

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2056.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Human Rights Day : Tuesday, 21 March, 2056
2. Good Friday : Friday, 31 March, 2056
3. Family Day : Monday, 3 April, 2056
4. Freedom Day : Thursday, 27 April, 2056
5. Workers' Day : Monday, 1 May, 2056
6. Youth Day : Friday, 16 June, 2056
7. National Women's Day : Wednesday, 9 August, 2056
8. Heritage Day observance : Monday, 25 September, 2056
9. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2056
10. Day of Goodwill : Tuesday, 26 December, 2056

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

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2056
2. Heritage Day : Sunday, 24 September, 2056
3. Day of Reconciliation : Saturday, 16 December, 2056