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How many working days in year 2040?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2040 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2040.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. Second Day of the New Year : Monday, 2 January, 2040
2. Baptism of the Lord : Friday, 6 January, 2040
3. Union of the Romanian Principalities : Tuesday, 24 January, 2040
4. Labour Day : Tuesday, 1 May, 2040
5. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 4 May, 2040
6. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 7 May, 2040
7. Children's Day : Friday, 1 June, 2040
8. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 25 June, 2040
9. Assumption : Wednesday, 15 August, 2040
10. St. Andrew's Day : Friday, 30 November, 2040
11. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2040
12. Boxing day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2040

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2040
2. Synaxis of St. John the Baptist : Saturday, 7 January, 2040
3. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 6 May, 2040
4. Pentecost Sunday : Sunday, 24 June, 2040
5. National Day : Saturday, 1 December, 2040