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How many working days in year 2001?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2001 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 11 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 250 working days in 2001.

Here is the list of these 11 public holidays:

1. New Year's Day : Monday, 1 January, 2001
2. Day after New Year's Day : Tuesday, 2 January, 2001
3. Auckland Day : Monday, 29 January, 2001
4. Waitangi Day : Tuesday, 6 February, 2001
5. Good Friday : Friday, 13 April, 2001
6. Easter Monday : Monday, 16 April, 2001
7. Anzac Day : Wednesday, 25 April, 2001
8. Queen's Birthday : Monday, 4 June, 2001
9. Labour Day : Monday, 22 October, 2001
10. Christmas Day : Tuesday, 25 December, 2001
11. Boxing Day : Wednesday, 26 December, 2001