There are 260 working days in Pakistan in 2028, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 0 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 366 calendar days, with 106 weekend days removed.
Working days
260
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
106
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
0
0 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.7
working days per month
Public holiday data for Pakistan in 2028 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 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| February | 29 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| April | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| September | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| October | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| December | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| Total | 366 | 106 | 0 | 260 |
The 260 working days shown above are the 366 calendar days of 2028, minus the 106 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 2028 that applies to 0 of Pakistan's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 260 working days works out to roughly 2,080 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
Pakistan's labour framework under the Factories Act 1934 (now provincially adopted) sets the standard week at 48 hours over six days. The federal and provincial government weeks run Monday to Friday at 8 to 9 hours, with banking following the same pattern; private retail and manufacturing commonly operate Monday to Saturday. Sunday is the statutory weekly rest day. The Code of Civil Procedure 1908 section 4 and the General Clauses Act 1897 roll statutory deadlines falling on a Sunday or notified public holiday to the next working day. Settlement of rupee transactions runs on the State Bank of Pakistan's RTGS PRISM, which observes the Cabinet-notified holidays.
Pakistan's federal public holidays are declared by Cabinet Division notification each year and total about ten to thirteen days. The standing list includes Kashmir Solidarity Day on 5 February, Pakistan Day on 23 March commemorating the 1940 Lahore Resolution, Labour Day on 1 May, Independence Day on 14 August marking the 1947 partition independence, Iqbal Day on 9 November honouring the national poet-philosopher (status varying by federal notification), Quaid-e-Azam Day and Christmas on 25 December marking the birthday of founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, plus Islamic holidays by lunar calendar: Eid Milad un-Nabi (Prophet's birthday), Eid al-Fitr (three days), Eid al-Adha (three days) and Ashura (10 Muharram). Provincial governments may add their own holidays under provincial notifications.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Pakistan 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 21.7 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 Pakistan holiday calendar for 2028. 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 Pakistan (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.