FAQ

Common questions

• What is a business day?

  A business day is a day that is neither part of your location's weekend nor a public or bank holiday there. Which days are the weekend depends on the country, so a business day is not always Monday to Friday.

• Are public and bank holidays excluded from the business day count?

  Yes. The Business Days calculator skips weekends and any date that is a public or bank holiday in your location.

• Do all holidays reduce a business day count?

  No. A business day count skips weekends and your country's public and bank holidays. Observances — days that are noted but close nothing — stay working days, so they do not change the count.

• How does the Business Days calculator count days?

  It counts the business days between a start date and an end date. You can include the start date, the end date, or both.

• Which holidays are used?

  Public and bank holidays for your detected country, and its state where one applies — among the countries the tools support. If your location is detected incorrectly, the holidays will be wrong too.

• Is a business-day count available for every country?

  No. Holiday-aware counts cover the countries whose public and bank holidays we can verify against an authoritative source. Where a country's holidays cannot be verified that way, the calculator returns no count rather than a guessed one — we would rather return nothing than a wrong number.

• How is my location (country/state/time zone) determined?

  Your country, state, and time zone are detected from your IP address. See the About page for the data sources behind the site.

• Does time zone matter?

  No. Calculations use calendar dates, not clock times. Time zone affects only how a date is displayed in the response.