There are 249 working days in Sweden in 2025, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 12 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
249
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
12
4 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
20.8
working days per month
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 |
| 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 | 4 | 19 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 12 | 249 |
These are the 12 public holidays in Sweden that land on a weekday in 2025 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 249 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2025, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 12 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 4 of Sweden's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 249 working days works out to roughly 1,992 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
Swedish working time law in the Arbetstidslagen sets a 40-hour standard week. The Code of Judicial Procedure (rättegångsbalken) and the Söndagsregeln in the Lag om Söndagar och Helgdagar roll procedural deadlines falling on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday to the next working day. The standard private-sector week is Monday to Friday with banks operating Monday to Friday. Settlement of Swedish krona transactions runs on the Sveriges Riksbank's RIX system, which observes the statutory thirteen-day list and additionally closes for the half-day eves under banking sector agreement.
Sweden recognises thirteen public holidays under the Lag om allmänna helgdagar 1989:253. The list combines Lutheran dates (Epiphany, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension, Whit Sunday, All Saints' Day) with civic dates (New Year's Day, Labour Day, National Day on 6 June added as a public holiday only in 2005) and Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Midsummer Day. Midsummer Day floats to the Saturday between 20 and 26 June and is for many Swedes the most important holiday of the year, more so than Christmas. The Lutheran calendar drove the national list because the Church of Sweden was the state church until 2000.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Sweden 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 20.8 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 Sweden 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 Sweden (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.