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How many working days in year 2025?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2025 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 245 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 245 working days in 2025.

Here is the list of these 245 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
2. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Monday, 27 January, 2025
3. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
4. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
5. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Thursday, 30 January, 2025
6. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Friday, 31 January, 2025
7. Peace Memorial Day : Friday, 28 February, 2025
8. Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) : Thursday, 3 April, 2025
9. Qingming Festival (Tomb Sweeping Day) : Friday, 4 April, 2025
10. Labor Day : Thursday, 1 May, 2025
11. Dragon Boat Festival : Friday, 30 May, 2025
12. Confucius’ Birthday / Teachers' Day : Monday, 29 September, 2025
13. Mid-Autumn Festival : Monday, 6 October, 2025
14. National Day : Friday, 10 October, 2025
15. Retrocession Day : Friday, 24 October, 2025
16. Constitution Day : Thursday, 25 December, 2025

And here are the 7 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Saturday, 25 January, 2025
2. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Sunday, 26 January, 2025
3. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Saturday, 1 February, 2025
4. Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) : Sunday, 2 February, 2025
5. Dragon Boat Festival : Saturday, 31 May, 2025
6. Confucius’ Birthday / Teachers' Day : Sunday, 28 September, 2025
7. Retrocession Day : Saturday, 25 October, 2025