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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. Nieuwjaarsdag : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Paasmaandag : Monday, 24 March, 2008
3. Dag van de Arbeid : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 12 May, 2008
5. Nationale Feestdag : Monday, 21 July, 2008
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Friday, 15 August, 2008
7. Wapenstilstand : Tuesday, 11 November, 2008
8. Kerstmis : Thursday, 25 December, 2008

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Allerheiligen : Saturday, 1 November, 2008