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How many working days in year 2006?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2006 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 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 2006.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 2 January, 2006
2. National day : Friday, 3 March, 2006
3. Orthodox Easter Friday : Friday, 21 April, 2006
4. Orthodox Easter Monday : Monday, 24 April, 2006
5. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
6. St. George's Day (observance) : Monday, 8 May, 2006
7. Culture and Literacy Day : Wednesday, 24 May, 2006
8. Unification Day : Wednesday, 6 September, 2006
9. Independence Day : Friday, 22 September, 2006
10. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
11. Boxing day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2006

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Orthodox Easter Saturday : Saturday, 22 April, 2006
3. Orthodox Easter Sunday : Sunday, 23 April, 2006
4. St. George's Day : Saturday, 6 May, 2006
5. Christmas Eve : Sunday, 24 December, 2006