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How many working days in year 2008?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2008 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 2008.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaar : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Goede Vrijdag : Friday, 21 March, 2008
3. Tweede Paasdag : Monday, 24 March, 2008
4. Koninginnedag : Wednesday, 30 April, 2008
5. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
6. Tweede Pinksterdag : Monday, 12 May, 2008
7. Eerste Kerstdag : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
8. Tweede Kerstdag : Friday, 26 December, 2008

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

1. Eerste Paasdag : Sunday, 23 March, 2008
2. Eerste Pinksterdag : Sunday, 11 May, 2008