For a full year the weekends alone remove 104 to 106 days, which leaves about 261 weekdays; the public holidays of your country then take a further 7–14 days off, so most countries land at 250–256 working days a year.
Working Days Calculator
Count the working days in any month or year, between two dates, or left until the end of the month — weekends and public holidays excluded, for the country you choose.
What counts as a working day?
A working day (or business day) is any weekday — Monday to Friday — that is not a public holiday. A month has between 19 and 23 working days, and a year around 250, depending on the country and how the weekends fall. Working days are what payroll periods, project deadlines, notice periods and delivery promises are counted in.
The calculator starts from the calendar days, removes the weekend days of your working week, then removes the national public holidays of the country you pick — anything left is a working day. Regional holidays, company shutdowns and personal leave are not included; subtract them yourself if they apply.
31
Calendar days
10
weekend days
0
public holidays
21
working days
August 2026: 31 − 10 − 0 = 21
Working days in 2026, month by month
Monday–Friday week, United States public holidays. Hours assume an 8-hour day. Use the calculator above for another country or a different working week.
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend days | Public holidays | Working days | Working hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 9 | 2 | 160 | |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 152 | |
| March | 31 | 9 | 0 | 176 | |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 176 | |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 160 | |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 168 | |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 176 | |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 168 | |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 168 | |
| October | 31 | 9 | 1 | 168 | |
| November | 30 | 9 | 2 | 152 | |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 176 | |
| Total 2026 | 365 | 104 | 11 | 250 | 2,000 |
Average per month: 20.8 working days · 167 working hours
Working days in 2027, month by month
Monday–Friday week, United States public holidays. Hours assume an 8-hour day. Use the calculator above for another country or a different working week.
| Month | Calendar days | Weekend days | Public holidays | Working days | Working hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 152 | |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 152 | |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 184 | |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 176 | |
| May | 31 | 10 | 1 | 160 | |
| June | 30 | 8 | 1 | 168 | |
| July | 31 | 9 | 1 | 168 | |
| August | 31 | 9 | 0 | 176 | |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 168 | |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 160 | |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 160 | |
| December | 31 | 8 | 2 | 168 | |
| Total 2027 | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 | 1,992 |
Average per month: 20.8 working days · 166 working hours
How to calculate working days between two dates
Four steps — the calculator does them for you, but they are easy to check by hand.
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Count the calendar days from the start date to the end date, including both if the end date is a full working day.
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Subtract the weekend days in that span — every Saturday and Sunday for a Monday–Friday week.
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Subtract every public holiday that falls on a weekday. Holidays that land on a weekend are already excluded.
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What is left is the number of working days. Multiply by your daily hours (usually 8) to get working hours.
The working days formula
One subtraction, applied to any span of dates.
Working days = Calendar days − Weekend days − Public holidays on weekdays
Inclusive or exclusive?
Deadlines and payroll usually count both the first and the last day (“5 working days from Monday” ends on Friday). Notice periods and shipping estimates often start counting from the next day. The calculator counts both dates by default — untick “Count the end date” for the exclusive convention.
Where working days matter
Payroll and timesheets
Salaried pay per period, prorated salaries for joiners and leavers, and expected hours per month all rest on the working-day count.
Deadlines and SLAs
“Within 10 business days” means something different in a month with two public holidays. Count the real date, not the calendar one.
Leave and PTO planning
See how many working days a vacation actually costs, and how many are left in the year to plan around.
Projects and capacity
Sprint length, team capacity and delivery dates depend on how many working days — and working hours — a month really has.
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Explore workforce managementWorking days — frequently asked questions
Between 19 and 23. A month has 28–31 calendar days, of which 8–10 are weekend days, leaving 20–23 weekdays; public holidays then remove 0–2 more. On average a month has about 21 working days (about 168 working hours at 8 hours a day).
2026 has 365 days, 104 weekend days and 261 weekdays. In the United States, 11 federal holidays fall on weekdays, so 2026 has 250 working days. Other countries: United Kingdom 253, Germany 254, France 252, Spain 254, Portugal 252, Brazil 252, Russia 247. Pick a country above to see the month-by-month split.
2027 also has 261 weekdays. In the United States 12 federal holidays fall on weekdays — Juneteenth, Independence Day and Christmas are observed on the nearest weekday, and New Year’s Day 2028 is observed on Friday 31 December 2027 — so 2027 has 249 working days; the UK has 253, Germany 256, France 254, Spain 254, Portugal 253, Brazil 254, Russia 249 (before the annual transfer decree, which usually moves the New-Year weekend days and lowers it).
A year has 260 to 262 weekdays — usually 261. After national public holidays most countries land between 250 and 256 working days, i.e. about 2,000–2,050 working hours at 8 hours a day.
In everyday use they mean the same thing: weekdays that are not public holidays. “Business days” is more common in banking, shipping and legal deadlines; “working days” in payroll and HR. Some contracts define their own working days (for example including Saturdays) — the calculator lets you set that.
Yes — choose a country and its national public holidays are excluded automatically, including observed dates when a holiday falls on a weekend (for example the US Independence Day observed on Friday 3 July 2026). Regional, state and local holidays are not included; select “None” to count weekdays only.
Open the “Between two dates” tab, click the start day and the end day on the calendar (or use a preset such as “This quarter”). The calculator counts the calendar days, removes weekends and public holidays, and shows the working days, weeks and hours. Both dates are counted unless you untick “Count the end date”.
The “Days left” tab counts from today to 31 December for your country and working week, and shows the working days left in the current month as well. It updates automatically every day.
20, 21, 22 or 23. A 28-day February has exactly 20 weekdays; 30-day months have 20–22; 31-day months have 21–23, depending on which weekday the month starts. Weekdays minus public holidays gives working days.
Multiply the working days by the daily hours: 21 working days × 8 hours = 168 hours; 22 × 8 = 176; 20 × 8 = 160. For a 40-hour week the yearly average is 2,080 hours (52 weeks × 40), before public holidays and leave.
Yes. Under “Working days of the week”, tap Saturday (or any other day) to switch it between working and non-working. Six-day weeks, Sunday-to-Thursday weeks and part-time patterns are all supported.
National public holidays for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, India, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and Armenia, computed for any year (movable feasts such as Easter and “n-th Monday” holidays are calculated, not hardcoded). India’s central-government gazetted holidays on the lunar calendar (Holi, Diwali, Eid and others) and Russia’s New-Year transfer decrees come from the published calendars year by year — the current and next year are complete; later years carry the dates published so far.