There are 261 working days in India in 2025, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 0 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
261
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
0
0 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.8
working days per month
Public holiday data for India in 2025 was not available from the source, so the figures above count weekdays only and do not subtract national holidays. Treat the working-day total as an upper bound.
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 0 | 261 |
The 261 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2025, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 0 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2025 that applies to 0 of India's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 261 working days works out to roughly 2,088 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
The standard private-sector working week in India is Monday to Saturday with Sunday off, although banking, IT and multinational sectors increasingly run Monday to Friday with first and third Saturdays off under the 2015 Reserve Bank of India direction. The Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 section 25 defines a working day for bill maturity as any day other than a public holiday so notified by the central or state government. Statutory leave under the Factories Act 1948 is one day of earned leave for every twenty days worked. Bank settlement follows the RBI's separate state-level holiday lists, which means clearing cycles differ across the country.
India has only three national holidays declared by gazette of the Government of India: Republic Day on 26 January, Independence Day on 15 August and Mahatma Gandhi's birthday on 2 October. Every other holiday on Indian calendars is either a gazetted restricted holiday, a sectional holiday for specific communities, or a state holiday declared under section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881 by the relevant state government. The Reserve Bank of India publishes a separate banking holiday list for each state, which is why bank cheques clear in Mumbai while branches in Kolkata are shut. State holidays vary widely: Tamil Nadu observes Pongal, Kerala observes Onam, neither of which applies elsewhere.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in India carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 21.8 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the India holiday calendar for 2025. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.
Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for India (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.