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How many working days in year 2026?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2026 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.
Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.
Now, let's remove 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 2026.
Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:
1. New Year's Day : thursday, 1 january, 2026
2. Good Friday : friday, 3 april, 2026
3. Easter Monday : monday, 6 april, 2026
4. Victoria Day : monday, 18 may, 2026
5. Canada Day : wednesday, 1 july, 2026
6. Nunavut Day : thursday, 9 july, 2026
7. August Civic Holiday : monday, 3 august, 2026
8. Labour Day : monday, 7 september, 2026
9. National Day for Truth and Reconciliation : wednesday, 30 september, 2026
10. Thanksgiving : monday, 12 october, 2026
11. Remembrance Day : wednesday, 11 november, 2026
12. Christmas : friday, 25 december, 2026
13. Boxing Day (observance) : monday, 28 december, 2026
And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:
1. Boxing Day : saturday, 26 december, 2026