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Enter a start and end date to see how many workdays (business days) fall between them — weekends and public holidays excluded, both dates counted. Pick a US, UK, Japan or Germany holiday preset or list your own dates. To find the date N workdays after a start date, use the Date Calculator's business-day mode.
- Workdays
- 23
- Weekend days
- 8
- Holidays
- 0
- Total days
- 31
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How it works
Why workday counting matters
Project deadlines, contract terms, payroll cycles, and leave planning all use 'business days' rather than calendar days. A 30-day delivery promise made on a Friday is actually 32 calendar days because the weekend doesn't count. Mistaking the two leads to missed deadlines and contract disputes.
Workdays also matter for legal counting: in many jurisdictions, statutory time limits (e.g., '14 business days to respond') exclude weekends and public holidays. Always check whether 'days' means calendar or business in any agreement.
Why we let you customize weekends
Most countries use Saturday-Sunday as the weekend, but it varies. Most Middle Eastern and some North African countries observe Friday-Saturday as the weekend. Some industries (retail, hospitality) consider weekends as workdays.
Our toggles let you mark Saturday or Sunday as workdays individually. So you can configure: Mon-Fri only (default), 6-day work week (include Saturday), or even Sunday-only weekend (uncheck Sunday).
How to use the holidays input
Paste a list of dates in YYYY-MM-DD format (ISO 8601). Separators can be commas, spaces, or newlines. Each date you list will be excluded from the workday count if it falls on what would otherwise be a workday.
For US federal holidays in 2026, paste: 2026-01-01, 2026-01-19, 2026-02-16, 2026-05-25, 2026-06-19, 2026-07-03, 2026-09-07, 2026-10-12, 2026-11-11, 2026-11-26, 2026-12-25.
The holiday preset above covers the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom (England & Wales) and Germany for 2026–2027. For other countries, regional holidays or company closures, list the dates here — they are added on top of the preset.
Frequently asked questions
›How many workdays are between two dates?
Enter both dates: the calculator counts every Monday–Friday in the range (start and end included), then subtracts the public holidays from the preset you pick and any dates you list. Example: July 1–31, 2026 has 23 weekdays; with the US federal holiday preset (Independence Day observed on Friday, July 3) it is 22 workdays.
›How do I find the date that is N workdays after a start date?
This page counts workdays between two known dates. To go the other way — for example '30 workdays from July 16, 2026' — use the Date Calculator (linked below the tool): turn on business-day mode and pick the same public-holiday preset (US, Japan, UK or Germany, 2026–2027); it skips weekends and those holidays and lists the holidays it skipped. Dates you typed in this page's own holiday list are not carried over, so move that result forward one workday for each such extra day off. To double-check, count here from the day after your start date to the result — it should equal N.
›Are start and end dates inclusive?
Yes. If both are workdays, both are counted. If your contract counts only the days between (exclusive), subtract 2 from the result.
›Are public holidays included automatically?
Only if you pick a preset: built-in data covers public holidays in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom (England & Wales) and Germany for 2026–2027. Holidays vary by country, region and year, so for anywhere else — or for company-specific days off — add the dates manually; they are combined with the preset.
›Can I use this for international contracts?
Yes — but make sure both parties agree on which holidays to count. Multinational contracts often specify 'business days as observed in the [city] of [country]' to avoid ambiguity.
›What if a holiday falls on a weekend?
It's not double-counted. If 2026-01-01 is a Thursday holiday, it's counted as a holiday. If 2027-12-25 falls on a Saturday, the algorithm correctly counts it as one day (weekend), not two.
›How does this work for a 6-day work week?
Check 'Saturday is a workday'. The calculator will count Mon-Sat as workdays and only exclude Sundays and listed holidays.
›What's the maximum date range I can compute?
Hundreds of years at minimum. The browser handles date arithmetic up to ±100 million days from 1970.
›Can I export the workday list?
Not as a download, but you can copy the displayed numbers. For a per-day list, a spreadsheet is more flexible.
›Does the data leave my browser?
No. Everything runs locally; nothing is sent to a server.
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