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How many working days in year 2048?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2048 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

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

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 255 working days in 2048.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2048
2. Maundy Thursday : Thursday, 2 April, 2048
3. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 2048
4. Easter Monday : Monday, 6 April, 2048
5. Ascension Day : Thursday, 14 May, 2048
6. Whit Monday : Monday, 25 May, 2048
7. Christmas Day : Friday, 25 December, 2048

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

1. Easter Sunday : Sunday, 5 April, 2048
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 24 May, 2048
3. Boxing Day : Saturday, 26 December, 2048