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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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2006.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 13 April, 2006
2. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2006
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2006
4. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
5. Constitution Day : Wednesday, 17 May, 2006
6. Ascension Day : Thursday, 25 May, 2006
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 5 June, 2006
8. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
9. St Stephen's 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. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 16 April, 2006
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 4 June, 2006