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How many working days in year 1998?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1998 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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 1998.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. Πρωτοχρονιά : Thursday, 1 January, 1998
2. Θεοφάνεια : Tuesday, 6 January, 1998
3. Καθαρά Δευτέρα : Monday, 2 March, 1998
4. Εικοστή Πέμπτη Μαρτίου : Wednesday, 25 March, 1998
5. Μεγάλη Παρασκευή : Friday, 17 April, 1998
6. Δευτέρα του Πάσχα : Monday, 20 April, 1998
7. Εργατική Πρωτομαγιά : Friday, 1 May, 1998
8. Δευτέρα Πεντηκοστής : Monday, 8 June, 1998
9. Ημέρα του Όχι : Wednesday, 28 October, 1998
10. Χριστούγεννα : Friday, 25 December, 1998

And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Ορθόδοξο Πάσχα : Sunday, 19 April, 1998
2. Πεντηκοστή : Sunday, 7 June, 1998
3. Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου : Saturday, 15 August, 1998
4. Σύναξη της Θεοτόκου : Saturday, 26 December, 1998