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How many working days in year 2023?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2023 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 14 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 246 working days in 2023.

Here is the list of these 14 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 2 January, 2023
2. Lunar New Year : Monday, 23 January, 2023
3. Lunar New Year : Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
4. Lunar New Year : Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
5. Ching Ming Festival : Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
6. Good Friday : Friday, 7 April, 2023
7. Easter Monday : Monday, 10 April, 2023
8. Labour Day : Monday, 1 May, 2023
9. Birthday of the Buddha : Friday, 26 May, 2023
10. Tuen Ng Festival : Thursday, 22 June, 2023
11. National Day : Monday, 2 October, 2023
12. Chung Yeung Festival : Monday, 23 October, 2023
13. Christmas Day : Monday, 25 December, 2023
14. Boxing Day : Tuesday, 26 December, 2023

And here are the 5 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Sunday, 1 January, 2023
2. Holy Saturday : Saturday, 8 April, 2023
3. Establishment Day : Saturday, 1 July, 2023
4. Mid-Autumn Festival : Saturday, 30 September, 2023
5. National Day : Sunday, 1 October, 2023