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How many working days in year 2056?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2056 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 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 2056.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 30 March, 2056
2. Good Friday : Friday, 31 March, 2056
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 3 April, 2056
4. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2056
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 11 May, 2056
6. Constitution Day : Wednesday, 17 May, 2056
7. Whit Monday : Monday, 22 May, 2056
8. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2056
9. St Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2056

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

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2056
2. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 2 April, 2056
3. Pentecost : Sunday, 21 May, 2056