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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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2003.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. Año Nuevo : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Lunes de Carnaval : Monday, 3 March, 2003
3. Martes de Carnaval : Tuesday, 4 March, 2003
4. Viernes Santo : Friday, 18 April, 2003
5. Día del Trabajo : Friday, 2 May, 2003
6. Batalla de Pichincha : Friday, 23 May, 2003
7. Primer Grito de la Independencia : Monday, 11 August, 2003
8. Independencia de Guayaquil : Friday, 10 October, 2003
9. Independencia de Cuenca : Monday, 3 November, 2003
10. Día de los Difuntos : Tuesday, 4 November, 2003
11. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 2003