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How many working days in year 2004?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2004 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

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

Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 256 working days in 2004.

Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Thursday, 1 January, 2004
2. New Year Holiday : Friday, 2 January, 2004
3. Easter Monday : Monday, 12 April, 2004
4. Resistance Day : Tuesday, 27 April, 2004
5. Statehood Day : Friday, 25 June, 2004
6. All Saints' Day : Monday, 1 November, 2004

And here are the 9 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Preseren's Day : Sunday, 8 February, 2004
2. Easter : Sunday, 11 April, 2004
3. May Day : Saturday, 1 May, 2004
4. May Day Holiday : Sunday, 2 May, 2004
5. Whitsunday : Sunday, 30 May, 2004
6. Assumption Day : Sunday, 15 August, 2004
7. Reformation Day : Sunday, 31 October, 2004
8. Christmas Day : Saturday, 25 December, 2004
9. Independence and Unity Day : Sunday, 26 December, 2004