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How many working days in year 2008?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2008 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 17 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 245 working days in 2008.

Here is the list of these 17 public holidays:

1. Año Nuevo : Tuesday, 1 January, 2008
2. Lunes de Carnaval : Monday, 4 February, 2008
3. Martes de Carnaval : Tuesday, 5 February, 2008
4. Jueves Santo : Thursday, 20 March, 2008
5. Viernes Santo : Friday, 21 March, 2008
6. Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia : Monday, 24 March, 2008
7. Día del Veterano y de los Caídos en la Guerra de Malvinas : Wednesday, 2 April, 2008
8. Día Internacional de los Trabajadores : Thursday, 1 May, 2008
9. Puente Turístico : Friday, 2 May, 2008
10. Conmemoración de la muerte del General Manuel Belgrano : Friday, 20 June, 2008
11. Día de la Independencia : Wednesday, 9 July, 2008
12. Día del Paso a la Inmortalidad del General José de San Martín : Monday, 18 August, 2008
13. Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural : Monday, 13 October, 2008
14. Día de la Soberanía Nacional : Monday, 17 November, 2008
15. Día de la Inmaculada Concepción : Monday, 8 December, 2008
16. Navidad : Thursday, 25 December, 2008
17. Puente Turístico : Friday, 26 December, 2008

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Día de la Revolución de Mayo : Sunday, 25 May, 2008