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How many working days in year 2006?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2006 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 13 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 247 working days in 2006.

Here is the list of these 13 public holidays:

1. Epiphany : Friday, 6 January, 2006
2. Good Friday : Friday, 14 April, 2006
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 17 April, 2006
4. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2006
5. Victory over Fascism Day : Monday, 8 May, 2006
6. Saints Cyril and Methodius’ Day : Wednesday, 5 July, 2006
7. Slovak National Uprising Anniversary : Tuesday, 29 August, 2006
8. Constitution Day : Friday, 1 September, 2006
9. Day of Our Lady of Sorrows : Friday, 15 September, 2006
10. All Saints’ Day : Wednesday, 1 November, 2006
11. Freedom and Democracy Day : Friday, 17 November, 2006
12. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2006
13. St. Stephen's Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2006

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

1. Republic Day / New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Christmas Eve : Sunday, 24 December, 2006