How many working days in year 2008?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2008 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 2008.
Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:
1. Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Viernes Santo : Friday, 21 March, 2008
3. Día Internacional de los Trabajadores : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
4. Día de las Glorias Navales : Wednesday, 21 May, 2008
5. Virgen del Carmen : Wednesday, 16 July, 2008
6. Asunción de la Virgen : Friday, 15 August, 2008
7. Fiestas Patrias : Thursday, 18 September, 2008
8. Día de las Glorias del Ejércitos : Friday, 19 September, 2008
9. Día Nacional de las Iglesias Evangélicas y Protestantes : Friday, 31 October, 2008
10. Día de la Inmaculada Concepción : Monday, 8 December, 2008
11. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Sábado Santo : Saturday, 22 March, 2008
2. San Pedro y San Pablo : Sunday, 29 June, 2008
3. Día del Descubrimiento de Dos Mundos : Sunday, 12 October, 2008
4. Día de Todos los Santos : Saturday, 1 November, 2008