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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 12 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 249 working days in 2003.

Here is the list of these 12 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Epiphany : Monday, 6 January, 2003
3. Clean Monday : Monday, 10 March, 2003
4. Independence Day : Tuesday, 25 March, 2003
5. Good Friday : Friday, 25 April, 2003
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 28 April, 2003
7. Labour Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2003
8. Pentecost Monday : Monday, 16 June, 2003
9. Assumption : Friday, 15 August, 2003
10. Ochi Day : Tuesday, 28 October, 2003
11. Christmas : Thursday, 25 December, 2003
12. Glorifying Mother of God : Friday, 26 December, 2003

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

1. Orthodox Easter : Sunday, 27 April, 2003
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 15 June, 2003