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How many working days in year 2040?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2040 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 261 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2040.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. Lunes de Carnaval : Monday, 13 February, 2040
2. Martes de Carnaval : Tuesday, 14 February, 2040
3. Viernes Santo : Friday, 30 March, 2040
4. Día del Trabajo : Monday, 30 April, 2040
5. Batalla de Pichincha : Friday, 25 May, 2040
6. Primer Grito de la Independencia : Friday, 10 August, 2040
7. Independencia de Guayaquil : Monday, 8 October, 2040
8. Día de los Difuntos : Friday, 2 November, 2040
9. Navidad : Tuesday, 25 December, 2040

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Año Nuevo : Sunday, 1 January, 2040