There are 253 working days in Netherlands in 2029, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 8 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
253
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
8
3 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.1
working days per month
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| September | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| December | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 8 | 253 |
These are the 8 public holidays in Netherlands that land on a weekday in 2029 and therefore remove a working day. Holidays that fall on a weekend are not listed here because they do not change the working-day total.
The 253 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2029, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 8 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 2029 that applies to 3 of Netherlands's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 253 working days works out to roughly 2,024 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
The Algemene Termijnenwet defines werkdag as any day other than Saturday, Sunday and the eleven listed feestdagen, used for administrative and procedural deadlines. Civil procedure under article 1 of the Algemene Termijnenwet rolls deadlines from a non-werkdag to the next werkdag. The standard private-sector working week is Monday to Friday, with banks operating Monday to Friday. Statutory annual leave under article 7:634 of the Burgerlijk Wetboek is four times the weekly working hours, so a 40-hour week gives 20 days. Settlement for euro transactions follows TARGET2, which closes on only six days, not the Dutch list.
The Netherlands does not have public holidays guaranteed by statute. The Algemene Termijnenwet of 1964 lists eleven algemeen erkende feestdagen for the purpose of moving administrative deadlines, but whether workers actually get paid leave on those days is left entirely to the collective labour agreement (CAO) or the individual employment contract. Liberation Day on 5 May is a paid holiday once every five years for civil servants and in CAOs that adopted the rule, but not in most private sectors. The Dutch list is unusual for omitting Epiphany, Assumption and All Saints; Easter Monday, Whit Monday and Christmas Boxing Day are all included.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Netherlands 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 21.1 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 Netherlands holiday calendar for 2029. 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 Netherlands (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.