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How many working days in year 2008?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2008.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Πρωτοχρονιά : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Καθαρά Δευτέρα : Monday, 10 March, 2008
3. Εικοστή Πέμπτη Μαρτίου : Tuesday, 25 March, 2008
4. Μεγάλη Παρασκευή : Friday, 25 April, 2008
5. Δευτέρα του Πάσχα : Monday, 28 April, 2008
6. Εργατική Πρωτομαγιά : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
7. Δευτέρα Πεντηκοστής : Monday, 16 June, 2008
8. Κοίμηση της Θεοτόκου : Friday, 15 August, 2008
9. Ημέρα του Όχι : Tuesday, 28 October, 2008
10. Χριστούγεννα : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
11. Σύναξη της Θεοτόκου : Friday, 26 December, 2008

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

1. Θεοφάνεια : Sunday, 6 January, 2008
2. Ορθόδοξο Πάσχα : Sunday, 27 April, 2008
3. Πεντηκοστή : Sunday, 15 June, 2008