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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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2048.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2048
2. Makar Sankranti : Tuesday, 14 January, 2048
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Wednesday, 19 February, 2048
4. Good Friday : Friday, 3 April, 2048
5. Mesadi : Tuesday, 14 April, 2048
6. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Friday, 2 October, 2048
7. Christmas Eve : Thursday, 24 December, 2048
8. Christmas : Friday, 25 December, 2048

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Republic Day : Sunday, 26 January, 2048
2. Independence Day : Saturday, 15 August, 2048