How Many Working Days in a Year? Calculator for Days & Hours

A normal year has 365 days, which is 52 full weeks plus one extra day, so it contains 260 or 261 Monday to Friday weekdays depending on which weekday January 1 falls on. A leap year has 366 days and 260, 261 or 262 weekdays. After public holidays, a 5-day worker typically ends up with 248 to 254 working days. In 2026 that is 250 in the US, 253 in England and Wales and 254 in Germany. The next leap year, 2028, has 260 weekdays.

2,080 is simply 52 weeks times 40 hours, or 260 weekdays times 8 hours. It ignores public holidays, vacation and sick days, so almost nobody actually works it. After federal holidays, a US 5-day, 8-hour year 2026 has 2,000 working hours before any leave. US federal payroll uses 2,087 hours because it averages 365.25 days over the year. Add 15 PTO days and 5 sick days and 2027 drops to 1,832 hours.

On average a month has about 21.7 working days (260 weekdays divided by 12) and about 173 working hours at 8 hours a day (2,080 divided by 12). Individual months range from 19 to 23 working days depending on weekends and holidays. The month-by-month tables on this page show the exact number for each month, and the calculator splits them by your country and work pattern.

It depends on the country. In the US, federal holidays that fall on a Saturday are observed on the Friday before and Sunday holidays on the Monday after, which can even move New Year's Day into the previous December. In England and Wales, Canada and Australia a holiday that lands on a weekend usually gets a substitute weekday, such as 27 and 28 December in 2027. Germany does not move holidays, so a holiday on a weekend is simply lost. The calculator applies these rules and lists both the calendar date and the day off.

For a standard Monday to Friday week with public holidays subtracted and no leave, 2027 has 249 working days in the US (federal), 253 in England and Wales, 256 in Germany (national holidays only), 251 in Canada (federal) and 255 in Australia (national holidays only). At 8 hours a day that is 1,992, 2,024, 2,048, 2,008 and 2,040 hours.

A week has 168 hours (7 x 24). A normal year has 8,760 hours (365 x 24) and a leap year has 8,784. A month has 672 hours in a 28-day February, 696 in a leap February, 720 in a 30-day month and 744 in a 31-day month, averaging about 730 hours. Those are clock hours, not working hours.

Far fewer than 2,080. Start from the working hours left after holidays and leave, then remove the time that cannot be invoiced: admin, sales, learning and gaps between projects. With 1,832 working hours in 2027 and a common 35% unbillable share, that leaves about 1,191 billable hours. To earn $60,000 after $6,000 of expenses you would need to charge about $55.42 an hour. Your own unbillable share is the number that matters, and measuring it beats guessing.

Each PTO or sick day removes one average working day and its hours. In the US in 2027, 15 PTO days and 5 sick days turn 249 working days into 229 (1,832 hours). A 4-day week at 10 hours a day with the same leave gives 180 working days and 1,800 hours, because holidays that fall on your day off cost you nothing.