Working Days Calculator

Calculate the exact number of business days between two dates. Exclude weekends and custom public holidays instantly. All calculations run locally in your browser.

Calculate Business Days Instantly

Calculating the exact number of working days between two dates can be tedious when factoring in leap years, varying month lengths, weekends, and public holidays. The Working Days Calculator simplifies this by mathematically traversing the date range to count actionable business days.

Customizable Work Weeks

How Working Days Are Counted
Working Days = (days in range where weekday is not a selected weekend day) − (holidays that fall on a working day)

Not all regions use a Monday-Friday work week. You can easily select which days constitute a weekend (such as Friday and Saturday for many Middle Eastern countries) to adapt the calculation to your exact locale.

Absolute Privacy

Project deadlines and leave schedules are private business information. Your dates and holiday lists stay on your device and are never shared or saved anywhere else.

Counting Business Days Between Two Dates

Working days calculations exclude weekends (and optionally public holidays) from a date range, which is essential for realistic project timelines, delivery estimates, and payment terms like "net 30 business days." A simple calendar-day count will consistently overestimate how much actual work time is available.

This calculator counts Saturdays and Sundays as non-working days by default and computes the exact number of business days between your chosen start and end dates, helping you plan more realistic deadlines than calendar-day math alone would give you.

  • Weekend Exclusion: Saturdays and Sundays are automatically excluded from the working-day count.
  • Deadline Planning: Use this alongside the Date Difference Calculator to compare calendar days versus actual working days.
  • Holiday Adjustments: Public holidays aren't automatically detected — manually adjust the count for holidays specific to your region.
Expert Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. If calculating from Monday to Tuesday, including the end date yields 2 days. Excluding it yields 1 day (strictly the time elapsed between).
The calculator is smart enough to avoid double-counting. If you add a holiday that lands on a designated weekend day, it will be counted as a weekend rather than a holiday, keeping your total working days accurate.
Yes. The calculator includes all central government gazetted public holidays for the current year including Republic Day (26 Jan), Holi, Good Friday, Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti (14 Apr), Independence Day (15 Aug), Gandhi Jayanti (2 Oct), Dussehra, Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti, and Christmas (25 Dec). You can toggle individual holidays on or off to match your company or state holiday policy, since many organisations observe additional state-specific or optional holidays.
India's financial year runs from 1st April to 31st March of the following calendar year. FY 2026–27 runs from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027. Use the "This Financial Year" quick preset button to automatically fill these dates. This is useful for HR teams calculating leave entitlements, accountants computing payroll days, and businesses tracking billable working days for the year. The result excludes all Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays within that period.
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