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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 10 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 251 working days in 2003.

Here is the list of these 10 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2003
2. Independence Day : Monday, 24 February, 2003
3. Good Friday : Friday, 18 April, 2003
4. Spring Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2003
5. Victory Day : Monday, 23 June, 2003
6. Midsummer Day : Tuesday, 24 June, 2003
7. Independence Restoration Day : Wednesday, 20 August, 2003
8. Christmas Eve : Wednesday, 24 December, 2003
9. Christmas Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2003
10. Second Day of Christmas : Friday, 26 December, 2003

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Easter : Sunday, 20 April, 2003
2. Pentecost : Sunday, 8 June, 2003