Are both the start and end dates counted?

Yes — both boundary dates are included in the count if they fall on weekdays. If your notice period starts on a Monday and ends on a Friday two weeks later, you have 10 working days inclusive of both dates. If either boundary falls on a weekend, it is excluded automatically.

What counts as a weekend?

Saturday and Sunday by default, following the standard international convention. However, this calculator now lets you customize your working days — so if your workweek is Mon–Sat (common in Pakistan and India), Sun–Thu (common in the Middle East), or any custom combination, simply select your working days and the calculation adapts automatically.

Is this useful for HR leave tracking?

Yes — HR departments routinely use working-days counts to deduct leave from employee balances. A 5-day sick leave that happens to include a Saturday and Sunday deducts only 3 days (Mon, Tue, Wed if Mon-Fri are the leave dates) from the balance, because the weekend days were not working days anyway.

Can I use this for billing by business day?

Yes. Consultants, contractors, and freelancers who charge a daily rate for business days use this calculation to produce accurate invoices. For example, a 3-month project starting Jan 1 might contain 65 working days — multiply by your daily rate for the total fee.

Does the order of the two dates matter?

No — the calculator uses the absolute difference regardless of which date you enter first. Enter April 1 as start and January 1 as end, or vice versa, and the tool returns the same result (90 or 91 working days depending on the year).

How do I handle a workweek that runs Monday to Saturday?

Many retail and service businesses in Pakistan use a 6-day workweek (Monday–Saturday). For that case, only subtract Sundays from the total days rather than both Saturday and Sunday — this calculator does not yet support that configuration directly, so the manual approach is to take total days minus Sundays.

Can I use this for deadline countdowns that skip weekends?

Yes. If a legal or financial deadline is '10 working days from today,' use this calculator to count forward 10 working days from the start date. Knowing the precise deadline prevents missed filings, late payments, or penalty fees.

Working Days Calculator

Date & Time

Count working days (Mon-Fri) between two dates, excluding weekends.

Date & Time

Working Days Calculator

Generated on April 24, 2026

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Your Working Days5 days/week

Presets

Public Holidays (optional)0 added

Add specific dates that are holidays. They'll be excluded from working days even if they fall on a working weekday.

?What is the Working Days Calculator?

A working days calculator counts the number of Monday–Friday weekdays between two dates, excluding Saturdays and Sundays. It is essential for HR departments counting leave balances, project managers estimating business-day deadlines, finance teams calculating settlement dates (T+1, T+3, T+5 conventions), freelancers billing by the business day, and legal professionals respecting court filing deadlines that run on working days only. The calculator handles ranges of any length, including periods that start or end mid-week, and correctly identifies every weekend day to subtract from the total.

The Formula

Working Days = Total Days − Weekend Days (number of Saturdays + number of Sundays in the range).

The calculator iterates day by day through the date range, counting each occurrence of Saturday (day 6 in JavaScript's Date.getDay()) and Sunday (day 0). Working days are what remains after subtracting weekends from the total range length. This day-by-day approach correctly handles any range, including edge cases like a three-day range that starts on Friday (two weekend days, one working day) or a range that spans exactly one week (five working days, two weekend days).

Practical Examples

January 1 to January 31 in 2024 contains 31 total days, 23 working days, and 8 weekend days — a typical full month.

A 100-calendar-day project window typically contains about 71 working days, because roughly 29 days fall on weekends.

Two weeks of vacation (14 calendar days) equals 10 working days to deduct from the employee's leave balance.

Financial settlement 'T+3 working days' means three business days after the trade, skipping any intervening weekends.

A court filing deadline of '30 working days from notice' in a notice issued on April 1 lands around May 13 (after removing ~9 weekend days).

Freelance consultant billing: a 6-month engagement equals roughly 130 working days, the correct basis for daily-rate invoicing.

Frequently Asked Questions

No — only weekends are excluded. Public holidays vary by country, region, and even company policy, so they cannot be automatically deducted without user-specific configuration. After calculating the working days, subtract any applicable public holidays manually. Pakistan has roughly 10–14 public holidays per year; the US has 10 federal holidays; UK has 8 bank holidays.

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?What is the Working Days Calculator?

The Formula

Practical Examples

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the calculator account for public holidays?

Are both the start and end dates counted?

What counts as a weekend?

Is this useful for HR leave tracking?

Can I use this for billing by business day?

Does the order of the two dates matter?

How do I handle a workweek that runs Monday to Saturday?

Can I use this for deadline countdowns that skip weekends?

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