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How many working days in year 2024?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2024 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2024.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Purim : Sunday, 24 March, 2024
2. Pesach : Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
3. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Monday, 29 April, 2024
4. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
5. Shavuot : Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
6. Rosh Hashanah : Thursday, 3 October, 2024
7. Sukkot : Thursday, 17 October, 2024
8. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Thursday, 24 October, 2024

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

1. Rosh Hashanah : Friday, 4 October, 2024
2. Yom Kippur : Saturday, 12 October, 2024