Working days in 2026, country by country
2026 has 261 weekdays. How many of them are working days depends on where you are: nationwide public holidays trim the total to 244 in Japan and leave it at 259 in India. Every country below links to its own month-by-month breakdown.
All 35 countries
| Country | Holidays on weekdays | Working days in 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 17 | 244 |
| Russia | 14 | 247 |
| Iceland | 13 | 248 |
| Brazil | 12 | 249 |
| Czechia | 11 | 250 |
| Denmark | 11 | 250 |
| New Zealand | 11 | 250 |
| Romania | 11 | 250 |
| Slovakia | 11 | 250 |
| United States | 11 | 250 |
| Austria | 10 | 251 |
| Belgium | 10 | 251 |
| Greece | 10 | 251 |
| Ireland | 10 | 251 |
| Portugal | 10 | 251 |
| South Africa | 10 | 251 |
| Sweden | 10 | 251 |
| Turkey | 10 | 251 |
| Croatia | 9 | 252 |
| Finland | 9 | 252 |
| France | 9 | 252 |
| Mexico | 9 | 252 |
| Serbia | 9 | 252 |
| Canada | 8 | 253 |
| Hungary | 8 | 253 |
| Netherlands | 8 | 253 |
| Norway | 8 | 253 |
| Poland | 8 | 253 |
| Germany | 7 | 254 |
| Italy | 7 | 254 |
| Spain | 7 | 254 |
| Australia | 6 | 255 |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 255 |
| Switzerland | 3 | 258 |
| India | 2 | 259 |
How these are counted
- Working days = Monday-to-Friday weekdays minus nationwide public holidays that fall on one.
- Regional holidays are left out on purpose — a Bavarian or Québécois day off does not apply to the whole country. Where they matter to you, the country page says so.
- Countries with weekend-substitution rules (the US, UK, Japan, Serbia and others) lose more weekdays to holidays than countries where a weekend holiday is simply gone — that is most of the spread in the table.
- India counts only its three national holidays; state holidays would lower its number regionally.
- Some governments publish an official production calendar each year that moves rest days around — Russia is the clearest example. Where that decree is published we include the transferred days; for years where it is not out yet, the figure is a weekday-minus-holiday count and the country page says so.