Working days in India, 2026
India has 259 working days in 2026: the year's 261 weekdays, minus the 2 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 | 0 | 22 |
| May | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| June | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| August | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| November | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| December | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| Total | 261 | 2 | 259 |
- The fullest month is July with 23 working days; the lightest is February with 20.
- 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 2 nationwide holidays falling on weekdays come from the same dataset as the India public holidays 2026 page, which lists each one with the weekday it lands on — and how India's holiday system works:
- India has exactly three national holidays anchored in the constitution’s civic calendar — Republic Day (26 January), Independence Day (15 August) and Gandhi Jayanti (2 October). They are the only days off that apply to the whole country, and they are what this page and the generator mark.
- Everything else works on lists: the central government publishes gazetted holidays (mandatory for its offices) and restricted holidays (each employee picks a small number) every year, and every state issues its own list on top.
- The great festivals — Diwali, Holi, Eid, Onam, Durga Puja — follow lunar and lunisolar calendars, land on different dates each year and differ by state, which is why an honest national list stays short instead of guessing.
Print it
The calendar maker opens on 2026 with India holidays marked, ready to print — and the 2026 calendar page carries the year's other numbers.