How many working days in year 2017?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2017 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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2017.
Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:
1. Paasmaandag : Monday, 17 April, 2017
2. Dag van de Arbeid : Monday, 1 May, 2017
3. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 25 May, 2017
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 5 June, 2017
5. Nationale Feestdag : Friday, 21 July, 2017
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Tuesday, 15 August, 2017
7. Allerheiligen : Wednesday, 1 November, 2017
8. Kerstmis : Monday, 25 December, 2017
And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Sunday, 1 January, 2017
2. Wapenstilstand : Saturday, 11 November, 2017