How many working days in year 2009?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 2009 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 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2009.
Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:
1. Solenidade da Santa Mãe de Deus : Thursday, 1 January, 2009
2. Sexta-Feira Santa : Friday, 10 April, 2009
3. Dia do Trabalhador : Friday, 1 May, 2009
4. Dia de Portugal : Wednesday, 10 June, 2009
5. Corpo de Deus : Thursday, 11 June, 2009
6. Implantação da República : Monday, 5 October, 2009
7. Restauração da Independência : Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
8. Dia da Imaculada Conceição : Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
9. Natal : Friday, 25 December, 2009
And here are the 4 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. Páscoa : Sunday, 12 April, 2009
2. Dia da Liberdade : Saturday, 25 April, 2009
3. Assunção de Nossa Senhora : Saturday, 15 August, 2009
4. Todos os Santos : Sunday, 1 November, 2009