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How many working days in year 2053?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2053 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 5 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2053.

Here is the list of these 5 public holidays:

1. פסח : Thursday, 3 April, 2053
2. שביעי של פסח : Wednesday, 9 April, 2053
3. יום העצמאות : Wednesday, 23 April, 2053
4. ראש השנה : Sunday, 14 September, 2053
5. יום כיפור : Monday, 22 September, 2053

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

1. שבועות : Friday, 23 May, 2053
2. ראש השנה : Saturday, 13 September, 2053
3. סוכות : Saturday, 27 September, 2053
4. שמחת תורה/שמיני עצרת : Saturday, 4 October, 2053