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Dates & Time · Date arithmetic & calendars

Business Days Counter

Count working days, weekends, entered holidays, and custom closures across a date range using an explicit workweek and endpoint convention.

Dates & Time · Date arithmetic & calendars

Enter the date and time scenario

Private in-browser workflow · no account, upload, location tracking, or saved schedule
Holidays and closures (optional)

Add one structured row per item. Use short non-identifying labels; rows remain only in this browser tab.

Enter the calendar, clock, named-zone, workweek, and closure assumptions that actually govern the task. A named IANA zone models offset transitions; a fixed abbreviation such as CST is intentionally not accepted. Nothing entered here is added to a URL, analytics event, account, or saved schedule.

Date and time result

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Enter valid values to see the result.

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Quick guide

How to use this calculator

  1. Choose the exact calendar, clock, recurrence, time-zone, working-day, or endpoint convention before entering values.
  2. Add one structured row for each participant, interval, stage, closure, target, or period that belongs in the scenario.
  3. Check the component ledger before using the headline result: it exposes skipped dates, offsets, transitions, overlaps, stage boundaries, and the convention driving the answer.

Calculation method

Explicit date and time workflow

Each included calendar date is classified once as working, weekly non-working, or entered closure; working days are the remainder.

The calculator keeps civil dates, elapsed durations, local clock readings, UTC instants, work calendars, and recurring rules distinct rather than silently treating them as interchangeable.

Worked example

Worked example

A Monday-through-Friday week from Monday through Sunday contains five working days before entered holidays.

Each included calendar date is classified once as working, weekly non-working, or entered closure; working days are the remainder.

Supported inputs

Precision and limits

Calendar and time-zone conventions

Gregorian dates and IANA named zones are modeled explicitly. Holiday, school, legal, payroll, contractual, and operating calendars are never inferred from a country name.

DST and civil-time limits

Repeated or nonexistent local clock readings are identified where they matter. Future government time-zone changes cannot be predicted beyond the time-zone data available to the runtime.

Planning support, not authority

Results organize entered assumptions. They do not determine legal notice, payroll compliance, staffing safety, entitlement, service credits, travel feasibility, or institutional policy.

Calculator-specific boundary

No public-holiday calendar is inferred. Enter the closures that apply to the actual jurisdiction, organization, and year.

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