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How many working days in year 2042?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2042 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 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2042.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Thursday, 24 April, 2042
2. Shavuot : Sunday, 25 May, 2042
3. Rosh Hashanah : Monday, 15 September, 2042
4. Rosh Hashanah : Tuesday, 16 September, 2042
5. Yom Kippur : Wednesday, 24 September, 2042
6. Sukkot : Monday, 29 September, 2042
7. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Monday, 6 October, 2042

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

1. Pesach : Saturday, 5 April, 2042
2. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Friday, 11 April, 2042