Working days and hours in every month, quarter, and year, after US federal holidays, plus the workdays left this year.
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This calculator lists the number of working days in every month of a chosen year, with quarterly and annual totals. It starts from the weekdays in each month, removes the US federal holidays that fall on a weekday (using the observed dates), and converts the result to working hours at whatever daily hours you set. It is built for payroll and HR teams sizing pay periods, finance teams building daily run-rate budgets, contractors quoting day rates, and anyone who wants to know how many workdays are left in the year.
For each month the tool walks every calendar day, counts Monday through Friday as weekdays, and subtracts any weekday whose date is in the holiday list. Federal holidays are generated from the statutory rules for the selected year: fixed-date holidays shift to Friday when they fall on Saturday and to Monday when they fall on Sunday, the floating holidays use their nth-Monday or last-Monday definitions, and Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. Hours are workdays multiplied by the hours-per-day input. The remaining-workdays figure counts today through December 31 inclusive, so today counts if it is a workday.
2026 has 261 weekdays and 11 federal holidays that fall on weekdays (Independence Day is observed on Friday, July 3, because July 4 is a Saturday), leaving 250 federal workdays, or 2,000 hours at 8 hours a day. Most years have 250 to 252 workdays; the count depends on which weekday the year starts on and whether it is a leap year.
A 31-day month contains 4 weeks plus 3 extra days; if those extra days are all weekdays the month has 23 weekdays, and if they include the weekend it has 21. February in a non-leap year has exactly 4 weeks (20 weekdays) unless it starts on a weekday and is a leap year.
Only the eleven US federal holidays are built in. Add state holidays, floating holidays, or office closures in the custom box, one date per line as YYYY-MM-DD, and they are subtracted from the month they fall in and listed alongside the federal ones.
Not exactly. 52 times 5 is 260, but a normal year has 365 days (52 weeks plus one day) and a leap year 366, so years contain 260 to 262 weekdays before holidays. Then federal holidays remove 10 or 11 weekdays depending on the year's weekend observances.
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