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Working Days Calculator India

About This Calculator

The working days calculator for India counts the business days between two dates using India's national holiday calendar. It takes the full span of days, removes Saturdays and Sundays, and then removes Indian national holidays that fall on a weekday.

This is useful for HR and payroll teams, businesses quoting delivery or service timelines, and anyone tracking notice periods, leave, or administrative deadlines in India. Because these are all measured in working days rather than calendar days, weekends and public holidays have to be taken out to get an accurate figure.

The result shows the total days in the range, the number of weekend days, the number of national holidays on weekdays, and the resulting working days. Both the start and end dates are included, and a reversed range is handled gracefully.

The holiday list covers India's three date-fixed national holidays — Republic Day, Independence Day, and Gandhi Jayanti — plus the main pan-India gazetted festivals whose dates move each year with the lunar and solar calendars: Holi, Ram Navami, the two Eids, Muharram, Janmashtami, Dussehra, Diwali, Guru Nanak Jayanti, Good Friday, Christmas, and more. Because bank holidays in India are set by the RBI and can also vary by state, treat this as a national baseline and confirm against your state's official list for anything critical.

To use it, choose a start date and an end date and press Count working days. For a bank/government-specific view, the bank working days calculator for India uses the same holiday set; for other countries, the standard working days calculator uses that country's holidays.

How It Works

  1. Enter a start date.
  2. Enter an end date.
  3. Click “Count working days”.
  4. View the business days, with weekends and holidays removed.

Formula & Methodology

The result is worked out as follows:

Working days = all days − weekends − public holidays

Each day in the range, including both endpoints, is checked. Saturdays and Sundays are removed, then Indian national holidays that fall on a weekday are removed. A holiday already on a weekend is not counted twice, leaving the working-day total.

Read the full methodology — how we calculate every result →

Worked Examples

A working week with no holidays5 working days
A week including Republic Day (26 Jan, weekday)4 working days
Independence Day 2026 (15 Aug, a Saturday)Not deducted — already a weekend