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How many working days in year 2019?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2019 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 2019.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaar : Tuesday, 1 January, 2019
2. Goede Vrijdag : Friday, 19 April, 2019
3. Tweede Paasdag : Monday, 22 April, 2019
4. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 30 May, 2019
5. Tweede Pinksterdag : Monday, 10 June, 2019
6. Eerste Kerstdag : Wednesday, 25 December, 2019
7. Tweede Kerstdag : Thursday, 26 December, 2019

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

1. Eerste Paasdag : Sunday, 21 April, 2019
2. Koningsdag : Saturday, 27 April, 2019
3. Eerste Pinksterdag : Sunday, 9 June, 2019