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How many working days in year 2006?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2006 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 2006.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. Second Day of the New Year : Monday, 2 January, 2006
2. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Tuesday, 24 January, 2006
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2006
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2006
5. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
6. Children's Day : Thursday, 1 June, 2006
7. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 12 June, 2006
8. Assumption : Tuesday, 15 August, 2006
9. St. Andrew's Day : Thursday, 30 November, 2006
10. National Day : Friday, 1 December, 2006
11. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
12. Boxing day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2006

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

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 April, 2006
3. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 11 June, 2006