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How many working days in year 2044?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2044 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 53 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 7 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2044.

Here is the list of these 7 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Friday, 1 January, 2044
2. Makar Sankranti : Thursday, 14 January, 2044
3. Republic Day : Tuesday, 26 January, 2044
4. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Friday, 19 February, 2044
5. Mesadi : Thursday, 14 April, 2044
6. Good Friday : Friday, 15 April, 2044
7. Independence Day : Monday, 15 August, 2044

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

1. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Sunday, 2 October, 2044
2. Christmas Eve : Saturday, 24 December, 2044
3. Christmas : Sunday, 25 December, 2044