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How many working days in year 2072?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2072 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2072.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Nieuwjaarsdag : Friday, 1 January, 2072
2. Paasmaandag : Monday, 11 April, 2072
3. Hemelvaartsdag : Thursday, 19 May, 2072
4. Pinkstermaandag : Monday, 30 May, 2072
5. Nationale Feestdag : Thursday, 21 July, 2072
6. Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Hemelvaart : Monday, 15 August, 2072
7. Feest van de Franse Gemeenschap : Tuesday, 27 September, 2072
8. Allerheiligen : Tuesday, 1 November, 2072
9. Wapenstilstand : Friday, 11 November, 2072

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Dag van de Arbeid : Sunday, 1 May, 2072
2. Kerstmis : Sunday, 25 December, 2072