There are 261 working days in Saudi Arabia in 2029, 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 Saudi Arabia in 2029 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 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| 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 | 0 | 21 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 0 | 261 |
The 261 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2029, 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 2029 that applies to 0 of Saudi Arabia'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.
Saudi Labour Law article 98 sets the standard private-sector week at 48 hours over six days, reduced to 36 hours during Ramadan for Muslim employees under article 98 paragraph 2. The official weekend across government, banking and the formal private sector is Friday and Saturday since 2013. Friday is the statutory weekly rest day under article 104 and Islamic practice. Settlement of riyal transactions runs on the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA)'s Saudi Arabian Riyal Interbank Express (SARIE) RTGS system, which closes on the gazetted Eid and national holidays plus every Friday and Saturday.
Saudi Arabia recognises a short list of statutory public holidays under the Saudi Labour Law (Royal Decree M/51 of 1426 AH, 2005) article 112 and Council of Ministers resolutions. The standing list comprises Eid al-Fitr (typically four days), Eid al-Adha (typically four days centred on the Day of Arafah and 10 Dhu al-Hijjah), Saudi National Day on 23 September commemorating the 1932 unification of the Kingdom under King Abdulaziz, and Founding Day on 22 February (added by Royal Order in 2022). Religious observances follow the Hijri lunar calendar with dates confirmed by the Supreme Court's moon-sighting committee. Unlike most economies the Kingdom does not observe Gregorian New Year as a holiday.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia (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.