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How many working days in year 2079?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2079 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 248 working days in 2079.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. Jour de l'An : Monday, 2 January, 2079
2. Jour de la Sainte Dévote : Friday, 27 January, 2079
3. Lundi de Pâques : Monday, 24 April, 2079
4. Fête du Travail : Monday, 1 May, 2079
5. Jeudi de l'Ascension : Thursday, 1 June, 2079
6. Lundi de la Pentecôte : Monday, 12 June, 2079
7. Jour de la fête Dieu : Thursday, 22 June, 2079
8. Fête de l'Assomption : Tuesday, 15 August, 2079
9. Fête de la Toussaint : Wednesday, 1 November, 2079
10. Fête Nationale : Monday, 20 November, 2079
11. Fête de l'Immaculée Conception : Friday, 8 December, 2079
12. Jour de Noël : Monday, 25 December, 2079

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

1. Jour de l'An : Sunday, 1 January, 2079
2. Fête Nationale : Sunday, 19 November, 2079