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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 15 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 246 working days in 2026.

Here is the list of these 15 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2026
2. Lunar New Year : Tuesday, 17 February, 2026
3. Lunar New Year : Wednesday, 18 February, 2026
4. Lunar New Year : Thursday, 19 February, 2026
5. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 2026
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 6 April, 2026
7. Ching Ming Festival : Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
8. Labour Day : Friday, 1 May, 2026
9. Birthday of the Buddha : Monday, 25 May, 2026
10. Tuen Ng Festival : Friday, 19 June, 2026
11. Establishment Day : Wednesday, 1 July, 2026
12. National Day : Thursday, 1 October, 2026
13. Chung Yeung Festival : Thursday, 8 October, 2026
14. Chung Yeung Festival : Monday, 19 October, 2026
15. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2026

And here are the 3 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Holy Saturday : Saturday, 4 April, 2026
2. Mid-Autumn Festival : Saturday, 26 September, 2026
3. Boxing Day : Saturday, 26 December, 2026