There are 247 working days in United States in 2025, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 17 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
247
Mon–Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
17
0 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
20.6
working days per month
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 2 | 18 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 17 | 247 |
These are the 17 public holidays in United States 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 247 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2025, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 17 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 United States's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 247 working days works out to roughly 1,976 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
There is no federal definition of a working day for private payroll. The Fair Labor Standards Act regulates overtime by hours worked in a workweek, not by counting business days, and most states default to a Monday through Friday business week with banks closed on weekends and federal holidays. Federal court filing deadlines under FRCP Rule 6(a) exclude Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, and roll forward when the last day lands on one of those. Banking settlement follows the Federal Reserve holiday schedule, which mirrors the federal list but is published separately because the Fed is not a federal agency in the 5 USC 6103 sense.
United States federal holidays are set by Title 5 of the US Code, section 6103, and currently number eleven: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr Day, Inauguration Day (every fourth year, federal employees in the DC area only), Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Juneteenth National Independence Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. These dates bind federal agencies and federal employees only; private employers are not required to observe them. Each state separately legislates its own state holidays, which is why Patriots' Day shuts Massachusetts and Cesar Chavez Day shuts California while neither registers nationally.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in United States 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 20.6 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 United States 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 United States (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.