Working days in France, 2026
France has 252 working days in 2026: the year's 261 weekdays, minus the 9 nationwide public holidays that land on one. The month-by-month table below is computed from the same holiday data the calendar maker prints.
Month by month
| Month | Weekdays | Holidays on weekdays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| February | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| April | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| May | 21 | 4 | 17 |
| June | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 23 | 1 | 22 |
| August | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| November | 21 | 1 | 20 |
| December | 23 | 1 | 22 |
| Total | 261 | 9 | 252 |
- The fullest month is March with 22 working days; the lightest is May with 17.
- Counts use nationwide holidays only — regional ones (a state day in the US, a cantonal day in Switzerland) reduce the total further where they apply.
- Weekends are Saturday and Sunday. Half-day customs — a Christmas Eve afternoon, a Bayram eve — are not subtracted.
Which holidays are subtracted
The 9 nationwide holidays falling on weekdays come from the same dataset as the France public holidays 2026 page, which lists each one with the weekday it lands on — and how France's holiday system works:
- France has eleven national public holidays. Alsace and Moselle keep two more — Good Friday and 26 December — a legacy of the region’s German period, and those appear as regional rows.
- There is no statutory substitution: a holiday on a weekend is lost. The French answer is the pont — bridging a Tuesday or Thursday holiday into a four-day weekend with a day of leave.
- May is the dense month: 1 May, 8 May, and usually Ascension all land there, and some years Whit Monday too.
Print it
The calendar maker opens on 2026 with France holidays marked, ready to print — and the 2026 calendar page carries the year's other numbers.