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How many working days in year 2071?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2071 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2071.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2071
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 16 April, 2071
3. Good Friday : Friday, 17 April, 2071
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 20 April, 2071
5. Labour Day : Friday, 1 May, 2071
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 28 May, 2071
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 8 June, 2071
8. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2071

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

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 19 April, 2071
2. Constitution Day : Sunday, 17 May, 2071
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 7 June, 2071
4. St Stephen's Day : Saturday, 26 December, 2071