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How many working days in year 2052?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2052 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 2052.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2052
2. Republic Day : Friday, 26 January, 2052
3. Maharaja Shivaji Jayanti : Monday, 19 February, 2052
4. Good Friday : Friday, 19 April, 2052
5. Independence Day : Thursday, 15 August, 2052
6. Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday : Wednesday, 2 October, 2052
7. Christmas Eve : Tuesday, 24 December, 2052
8. Christmas : Wednesday, 25 December, 2052

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

1. Makar Sankranti : Sunday, 14 January, 2052
2. Mesadi : Sunday, 14 April, 2052