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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Republic Day / New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. Good Friday : Friday, 5 April, 1996
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 8 April, 1996
4. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
5. Victory over Fascism Day : Wednesday, 8 May, 1996
6. Saints Cyril and Methodius’ Day : Friday, 5 July, 1996
7. Slovak National Uprising Anniversary : Thursday, 29 August, 1996
8. All Saints’ Day : Friday, 1 November, 1996
9. Christmas Eve : Tuesday, 24 December, 1996
10. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996
11. St. Stephen's Day : Thursday, 26 December, 1996

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Epiphany : Saturday, 6 January, 1996
2. Constitution Day : Sunday, 1 September, 1996
3. Day of Our Lady of Sorrows : Sunday, 15 September, 1996
4. Freedom and Democracy Day : Sunday, 17 November, 1996