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How many working days in year 2044?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2044 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 2044.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Pesach : Tuesday, 12 April, 2044
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Monday, 18 April, 2044
3. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Tuesday, 3 May, 2044
4. Shavuot : Wednesday, 1 June, 2044
5. Rosh Hashanah : Thursday, 22 September, 2044
6. Sukkot : Thursday, 6 October, 2044
7. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Thursday, 13 October, 2044

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Rosh Hashanah : Friday, 23 September, 2044
2. Yom Kippur : Saturday, 1 October, 2044