Calculate the number of working days between two dates, automatically excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
Choose the first and last date to include in the calculation. Both dates are included.
Add public holidays, company holidays, school holidays, or other dates that should not be counted as working days. Holidays that fall on weekends are already excluded as weekend days.
Business days are the days normally used for work, administration, banking, project schedules, deliveries, contracts, and other activities that operate on a Monday-to-Friday working week.
This calculator counts every calendar date between your selected start and end dates, then removes Saturdays, Sundays, and any weekday holidays you specify.
The calculation uses an inclusive date range. This means the start date and end date are both examined.
For each date, the calculator checks whether the date is:
In simple terms:
A holiday that falls on Saturday or Sunday is not deducted twice because that date has already been excluded as a weekend.
Suppose you calculate the period from Monday to Friday and add one Wednesday as a holiday.
This is useful when calculating employee working periods, project deadlines, processing periods, delivery schedules, payment dates, or other tasks where weekends and holidays should not count.
Calculate working periods, leave periods, notice periods, recruitment processing times, and employee-related deadlines.
Estimate working time for projects and determine deadlines without counting normal weekends.
Estimate processing periods for invoices, payments, approvals, applications, and administrative requests.
Check service or delivery periods that are expressed in working days rather than calendar days.
Your dates and holiday selections are processed locally in your web browser. This calculator does not need to upload your dates to a server in order to perform the calculation.
Yes. Both the start date and end date are included when counting calendar, weekend, holiday, and business days.
Saturdays and Sundays are counted as calendar days but automatically excluded from business days.
Yes, if you want specific holidays to be excluded. The calculator does not assume a particular country's holiday calendar because public holidays vary by location and year.
It is not deducted twice. Since the date is already a weekend, it is already excluded from business days.
Yes. You can add as many different holiday dates as required. Duplicate dates are prevented automatically.
Yes. Enter the same date as both the start and end date. If that date is Monday through Friday and is not a holiday, the result will be one business day.
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