How Many Weekdays & Working Days Are In A Year?

If you’d like more resources, use the table of contents below:

• Weekdays in a year
• Work days per year for the next decade
• Calculator
• US federal holidays
• Spreadsheet tools and calendar downloads

 

How many weekdays are in a year?

There are 261 weekdays per year on average for the years 2023 – 2032. There are always between 260 – 262  days per year without weekends.

Here are the weekdays per year for the next decade:

• 2023: 260 weekdays
• 2024: 262
• 2025: 261
• 2026: 261
• 2027: 261
• 2028: 260
• 2029: 261
• 2030: 261
• 2031: 261
• 2032: 262

See Also: How Many Weekends & Weekend Days Are In A Year?

 

How many working days are in a year?

If you remove weekends and holidays, you’re left with work days. There are 251 work days in 2024. We get to this figure by removing weekdays (262) and removing US federal holidays (11).

View the work days per month for 2023, 2024, 2025.

Here is a summary of the work days per year for the current decade.

 

 

Calculate Work Days Between Two Dates

Want to calculate work days for your schedule? Use our work days calculator here.

 

US Federal Holidays

There are 11 federal holidays each year. If you are trying to plan out further into the future, remember that the observed holidays change each year. Here are the US federal holidays for 2024:

1. New Year’s Day: Monday, January 1
2. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday: Monday, January 15
3. President’s Day: Monday, February 19
4. Memorial Day: Monday, May 27
5. Juneteenth: Wednesday, June 19
6. Independence Day: Thursday, July 4
7. Labor Day: Monday, September 2
8. Columbus Day: Monday, October 14
9. Veterans Day: Monday, November 11
10. Thanksgiving: Thursday, November 28
11. Christmas: Wednesday, December 25

Here are some other popular holidays many companies offer as paid days off:

• Friday after Independence Day (Friday, July 5)
• Friday after Thanksgiving (Friday, November 29)
• Christmas Eve (Tuesday, December 24)
• New Year’s Eve (Tuesday, January 31)

 

Work Year Calendar Downloads

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Spreadsheet: 2023 – 2032 Work Calendar Dataset

We have created a Google Sheets workbook with a tab for each year from 2023 – 2032 and a summary tab for all years. Within each tab, you’ll find total days, federal holidays, weekend days, work days, and work hours by month.

👉 Access in Google Sheets 

To use the spreadsheet, you have two options:

1. Log into your Google account, then click “File” and “Make a copy.”
2. Download the workbook to Excel by clicking “File” and “Download.”

See Also: Working Hours Per Month (2024)

 

2024 Work Calendar

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Definitions

Here is how we define each term you see used in the information provided above.

• Weekdays: Monday – Friday
• Work days, working days, business days: A weekday (Monday – Friday) that is not a federal holiday.
• Weekend days: Saturdays and Sundays
• Federal holidays: Paid weekdays off from work for employees of the U. S. federal government
• Standard work week: Eight hours of work per day on Monday through Friday, totaling 40 hours per week

 

Additional Work Week Articles

Slice the work calendar data differently:

• How many hours are in a year?
• How many work weeks are in a year?
• How many weekends are in a year?
• Work days calculator
• Work hours calculator
• Work weeks calculator

View the work days per month for 2023, 2024, 2025.

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