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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 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 2008.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Día de la Constitución : Monday, 4 February, 2008
3. Natalicio de Benito Juárez : Monday, 17 March, 2008
4. Viernes Santo : Friday, 21 March, 2008
5. Día del Trabajo : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
6. Día de la Independencia : Tuesday, 16 September, 2008
7. Día de la Revolución : Monday, 17 November, 2008
8. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 2008