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How many working days in year 2021?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2021 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2021.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Jour de l'An : friday, 1 january, 2021
2. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : wednesday, 27 january, 2021
3. Lundi de Pâques : monday, 5 april, 2021
4. Jeudi de l'Ascension : thursday, 13 may, 2021
5. Lundi de la Pentecôte : monday, 24 may, 2021
6. Jour de la fête Dieu : thursday, 3 june, 2021
7. Fête de la Toussaint : monday, 1 november, 2021
8. Fête Nationale : friday, 19 november, 2021
9. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : wednesday, 8 december, 2021

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

1. Fête du Travail : saturday, 1 may, 2021
2. Fête de l'Assomption : sunday, 15 august, 2021
3. Jour de Noël : saturday, 25 december, 2021