Pick a country to see exactly how many working days it has this year, a month-by-month breakdown, and the public holidays that come out of the count.
A working day is normally any day from Monday to Friday that is not a public holiday, but the total for a calendar year varies between countries because each country observes a different set of public holidays. Two countries with the same number of weekdays in a year can end up several working days apart once their national holidays are subtracted, and the gap widens further when holidays land on weekdays in one country but on weekends in another. That is why a single global figure for working days in a year is misleading; the only number that matters for payroll, billing, and project planning is the one for the specific country you operate in.
The count also shifts year to year within the same country. Because many holidays are tied to fixed calendar dates, they drift across the days of the week over time, so a holiday that lands on a Saturday one year (no working-day impact) can land on a Monday the next (a lost working day, plus a long weekend). Movable holidays such as Easter and lunar-calendar observances move by several weeks, which can pull a holiday from one month into another and change the per-month working-day profile entirely. For that reason each country page here is generated per year rather than assuming a constant total.
Each country page breaks the year down month by month so you can see where the holidays cluster, lists the specific public holidays that reduce the count, and links to the full holiday calendar and an .ics subscription. If you need the business-day count for a particular date range rather than a whole year, use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator, which lets you set a start and end date and choose which country's holidays to exclude. For legal deadlines counted in business days, always confirm the observed holiday dates against the official national calendar, since regional variations and substitute-day rules can change the result.