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How many working days in year 2003?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2003 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 2003.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Second Day of the New Year : Thursday, 2 January, 2003
3. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Friday, 24 January, 2003
4. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 25 April, 2003
5. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 28 April, 2003
6. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2003
7. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 16 June, 2003
8. Assumption : Friday, 15 August, 2003
9. National Day : Monday, 1 December, 2003
10. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2003
11. Boxing day : Friday, 26 December, 2003

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 27 April, 2003
2. Children's Day : Sunday, 1 June, 2003
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 15 June, 2003
4. St. Andrew's Day : Sunday, 30 November, 2003