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How many working days in year 2048?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2048 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 2048.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Pesach : Sunday, 29 March, 2048
2. Yom Ha-Atzmaut : Thursday, 16 April, 2048
3. Shavuot : Monday, 18 May, 2048
4. Rosh Hashanah : Tuesday, 8 September, 2048
5. Rosh Hashanah : Wednesday, 9 September, 2048
6. Yom Kippur : Thursday, 17 September, 2048
7. Sukkot : Tuesday, 22 September, 2048
8. Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah : Tuesday, 29 September, 2048

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Shvi'i shel Pesach : Saturday, 4 April, 2048