Count working days between two dates, excluding weekends and any custom holidays you specify.
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HR teams and self-employed contractors both need this constantly: how many billable working days fall between two dates, after subtracting weekends and public holidays. The calculator handles all three automatically.
Weekends are configurable — many countries use Saturday and Sunday, but the Middle East historically uses Friday and Saturday, and some industries treat Sunday and Monday as off-days. Tick whichever days are non-working for your situation.
Holidays are added as a comma- or newline-separated list of dates. Any date you list is excluded from the working-day count, even if it falls on a weekday. This handles public holidays, company holidays, planned shutdowns and any custom non-working days.
Because for most leave, salary and billing purposes, weekends and holidays are not "work days". The distinction matters for legal leave entitlements, project planning and contractor invoices.
YYYY-MM-DD (ISO format), one per line or separated by commas. The calculator ignores anything that does not parse.
Yes — both the start date and end date are included in the count if they fall on working days.
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