Count the actual working (business) days between two dates, excluding weekends and any holidays you list.
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This tool calculates the actual number of working days between two dates, excluding the standard weekend (Saturday and Sunday) as well as any official holidays you list manually in a separate field (comma-separated, in year-month-day format). This is useful for calculating project delivery deadlines, the actual number of working days within a contract period, or planning deadlines that depend on business days rather than the full calendar. The tool checks every single day in the specified range individually, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and any date found in the entered holiday list, then shows the total number of actual business days against the total number of calendar days in the same range for comparison. The default Saturday/Sunday weekend follows the standard used across most of North America, Europe, and many international business contexts, and can be effectively adjusted for regions with a different weekend by entering those specific dates as holidays, making the tool flexible enough to fit workweeks that don't follow the Saturday/Sunday default.
A calendar month rarely translates directly into working time. Weekends eat into it immediately, and public holidays chip away further — so when a contract says "delivery within 30 business days" or a project plan promises a result "in 10 working days," the actual calendar date that deadline lands on isn't obvious at a glance. This calculator turns that ambiguity into an exact date range and count.
The core logic checks every single calendar day between your start and end date individually, classifying each one as either a business day or a non-business day. Saturdays and Sundays are excluded automatically, following the weekend convention used across most of North America, Europe, and international business generally. Any date you list in the optional holidays field — separated by commas, in year-month-day format — is excluded as well, letting you account for public holidays, company closures, or any other specific non-working dates relevant to your situation.
This day-by-day approach matters because it's the same method used by payroll systems, project management software, and legal-notice calculations that reference "business days" — as opposed to simpler tools that just estimate business days by applying a rough 5/7 ratio to the total calendar days, which can be off by a day or two depending on exactly which days of the week the range starts and ends on.
One practical note: the default weekend here is Saturday and Sunday, which does not match every region — some Middle Eastern and other countries observe a Friday-Saturday weekend instead. If that applies to your situation, you can still get an accurate count by adding your actual weekly rest days to the holidays field alongside any real holidays, since the tool treats every entry in that field identically as a non-working date.
The result includes both figures side by side — the count of actual business days and the total calendar days in the same range — so you can see clearly how much the weekends and holidays reduced the working time within your chosen period.
Saturday and Sunday, following the most common international standard. If your country uses a different weekend (like Friday-Saturday), add those specific dates to the holidays field.
Separate each date with a comma in the format YYYY-MM-DD, for example: 2026-01-01, 2026-12-25.
Yes, both the start date and end date are included in the calculation if they fall on a business day.
Add every relevant Friday and Saturday within your date range to the holidays field as individual dates — the calculator treats any date entered there as a non-working day, regardless of which day of the week it falls on.