How many working days in year 2005?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2005 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.
Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2005.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : Monday, 3 January, 2005
2. National day : Thursday, 3 March, 2005
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 29 April, 2005
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 2 May, 2005
5. St. George's Day : Friday, 6 May, 2005
6. Culture and Literacy Day : Tuesday, 24 May, 2005
7. Unification Day : Tuesday, 6 September, 2005
8. Independence Day : Thursday, 22 September, 2005
9. Boxing day : Monday, 26 December, 2005
10. Christmas Day (observance) : Tuesday, 27 December, 2005
11. Christmas Day (observance) : Wednesday, 28 December, 2005
And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2005
2. Orthodox Easter Saturday : Saturday, 30 April, 2005
3. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 1 May, 2005
4. Christmas Eve : Saturday, 24 December, 2005
5. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2005