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Our site has working-day calendars for 208 countries and 388 regions. Each one shows a year day by day: its public holidays, the weekend that place keeps, and the rules that change how the days add up. On every calendar sits a calculator that counts the working days between two dates, or finds the date a number of working days ahead. A country's page opens its regions' calendars in place and lists how they differ, so they can be compared on one page.

Each country has its own page, and a region with holidays of its own gets one too: Victoria sits under Australia. To find a place, type part of its name or its ISO 3166 code into the search box. A search for wales brings up Wales, which follows the United Kingdom's calendar, and New South Wales, which has its own page. DE-BY finds Bayern.

Reading a calendar

Three buttons at the top change the layout. In three columns the year fits in four rows of months; in one, each month takes the full width of the screen. As a list, every day gets a row of its own and holiday names appear in full.

Holidays are filled in on the grid, each with its name in the cell. A name too long to fit ends in an ellipsis; click the day to read it whole.

Every month ends with a short summary of its working days, weekend days and holidays on working days, and in the list it comes first, beside the month's name. Click a figure to see the dates it counts.

Weeks can start on Monday or on Sunday, and the default is whichever the visitor's country uses.

The calculator

Between two dates gives the calendar days in a range, both ends included, and splits them into working days, weekend days and holidays. Each of those figures opens the dates behind it. The other tab, Add working days, gives the date a number of working days after a start, leaving the start itself out: 5 working days after Monday 2 March 2026 is Monday 9 March.

It counts against the page's own calendar and the weekend layout selected on it, so its answer always agrees with the months below. Once a question is complete, the card pins itself above them and outlines the range on the grid, so the days behind the answer, holidays among them, can be counted there. Two quick ranges are offered: the rest of the month and the rest of the year. Dates have to fall within the year the calendar covers.

Without a country in mind, start on the calculator page: enter the dates, then choose a country, and its calendar opens with the answer. Use the result for planning. Statutory and court deadlines follow counting rules of their own.

How the days are counted

Every day of the year is a working day, a weekend day or a holiday on a working day, and the three add up to the year. Where a rule then takes days off the working total without moving a date, the line under the total shows the subtraction and its reason.

A public holiday that falls on a weekend day counts as a weekend day, because the day was off already. It keeps its name on the calendar, and where a page shows a single calendar, the yearly figures still count it in the total number of holidays. Make-up days go the other way: a weekend day worked to pay for a long break counts as a working day.

A day off for one group only, such as the banks or one faith, counts as a working day and is drawn as one.

Weekends

Saturday and Sunday are not everyone's weekend. Saudi Arabia, Israel, Egypt, Qatar and Kuwait are among the countries that rest on Friday and Saturday, and their calendars are drawn that way. Malaysia's weekend depends on the state: Kedah, Kelantan and Terengganu keep Friday and Saturday, while the rest of the country takes Saturday and Sunday off.

In India three working weeks run side by side. Central government offices work Monday to Friday, while much of the workforce has a six-day week with Sunday off. Banks close on Sunday and on the second and fourth Saturday of the month, and so do the state offices of Sikkim. Pick another layout on the page and every month is counted again.

In 2026 China works six weekend days to make up for its long breaks at New Year, Spring Festival, Labour Day and National Day, and its calendar names the holiday each one pays for.

National and regional calendars

Where regions keep their own holidays, each has a page, and the country's page shows how far apart they are, with a month-by-month table per region. India has between 232 and 247 working days in 2026, depending on the state.

China has one calendar for most of its provinces, and its page names them. Hong Kong, Macao, Guangxi, Ningxia, Tibet and Xinjiang keep their own.

Under the country's name, a row of buttons names the regions with a calendar of their own. Picking one puts that region's calendar in place of the national one without reloading the page, and the month on screen stays where it was. On a region's calendar, the first button goes to the national one. Each switch changes the address as well, so the calendar on screen can be linked to.

A question in the calculator goes along with the switch, whether it is a range of dates or a number of working days to add, and is answered again for each calendar opened. October 2026 has 18 working days on China's national calendar and 20 in Hong Kong.

Below the year's summary, a table shows how the regions differ from one another and, where there is one, from the national calendar: each day that is a holiday in some regions and not in others, with the regions that keep it. Where they differ on too many days for such a list, as India's states do, each region's year stands beside the national one.

Optional holidays

Some holidays are a choice. India's central government publishes a list of restricted holidays, 28 of them in 2026, and each employee picks two.

On the calendar these days are outlined, not filled in. They count as working days, since nobody knows in advance which two a person will take, and the two come off the year's total: 243 working days on Maharashtra's grid become 241.

Where the data comes from

Holidays are compiled from public sources. Some calendar pages list the sources behind them, and most keep a changelog of what was added or corrected.

A holiday can be missing from a calendar, or change at short notice. Before relying on a date, check it against the official source.