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How many working days in year 2016?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2016 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 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 2016.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaar : Friday, 1 January, 2016
2. Goede Vrijdag : Friday, 25 March, 2016
3. Tweede Paasdag : Monday, 28 March, 2016
4. Koningsdag : Wednesday, 27 April, 2016
5. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 5 May, 2016
6. Tweede Pinksterdag : Monday, 16 May, 2016
7. Tweede Kerstdag : Monday, 26 December, 2016

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Eerste Paasdag : Sunday, 27 March, 2016
2. Eerste Pinksterdag : Sunday, 15 May, 2016
3. Eerste Kerstdag : Sunday, 25 December, 2016