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How many working days in year 2005?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2005 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2005.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Epiphany : Thursday, 6 January, 2005
2. Easter Monday : Monday, 28 March, 2005
3. Corpus Christi : Thursday, 26 May, 2005
4. National Day : Monday, 30 May, 2005
5. Anti-Fascist Struggle Day : Wednesday, 22 June, 2005
6. Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving Day : Friday, 5 August, 2005
7. Assumption Day : Monday, 15 August, 2005
8. All Saints' Day : Tuesday, 1 November, 2005
9. Remembrance Day : Friday, 18 November, 2005
10. St. Stephen's Day : Monday, 26 December, 2005

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. New Year's Day : Saturday, 1 January, 2005
2. Easter : Sunday, 27 March, 2005
3. Labour Day : Sunday, 1 May, 2005
4. Christmas Day : Sunday, 25 December, 2005