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How many working days in year 2003?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2003 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

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

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2003.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Jour de l'An : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : Monday, 27 January, 2003
3. Lundi de Pâques : Monday, 21 April, 2003
4. Fête du Travail : Thursday, 1 May, 2003
5. Jeudi de l'Ascension : Thursday, 29 May, 2003
6. Lundi de la Pentecôte : Monday, 9 June, 2003
7. Jour de la fête Dieu : Thursday, 19 June, 2003
8. Fête de l'Assomption : Friday, 15 August, 2003
9. Fête Nationale : Wednesday, 19 November, 2003
10. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Monday, 8 December, 2003
11. Jour de Noël : Thursday, 25 December, 2003

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Fête de la Toussaint : Saturday, 1 November, 2003