Working days in Turkey, 2026
Turkey has 251 working days in 2026: the year's 261 weekdays, minus the 10 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 | 1 | 21 |
| April | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| May | 21 | 5 | 16 |
| June | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 23 | 1 | 22 |
| August | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 22 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 22 | 1 | 21 |
| November | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| December | 23 | 0 | 23 |
| Total | 261 | 10 | 251 |
- The fullest month is December with 23 working days; the lightest is May with 16.
- 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 10 nationwide holidays falling on weekdays come from the same dataset as the Turkey public holidays 2026 page, which lists each one with the weekday it lands on — and how Turkey's holiday system works:
- Turkey’s two religious festivals — Ramazan Bayramı (three days) and Kurban Bayramı (four) — follow the lunar calendar and arrive about eleven days earlier each year; the dates are confirmed officially close to the time, and this data marks them tentative until then.
- The afternoon before each Bayram (arife) is a statutory half-day.
- Republic Day on 29 October also begins at 13:00 on the 28th — a statutory half-day most foreign schedulers miss.
Print it
The calendar maker opens on 2026 with Turkey holidays marked, ready to print — and the 2026 calendar page carries the year's other numbers.