Working days progress
Counts Monday to Friday, subtracts public holidays for the selected country, and shows how much of the working year is already behind you.
Working days elapsed
A calendar year progress bar treats every midnight equally. That is useful for reflection, but it is not how most paid work is scheduled. Weekends are outside the normal work rhythm, and public holidays create uneven gaps that depend on where the team is based. By counting only weekdays and removing each country's holidays, this tool shows the year through the days when work is normally expected to happen.
The difference can be surprisingly large. A country with several spring holidays may be less far through its working year than the calendar suggests, even when both countries are on the same date. That matters for capacity planning, quarterly targets, leave budgeting, and the small personal arithmetic of how many ordinary workdays are left before December closes.
It is also a quieter way to think about time. The calendar-year view asks how much of the year has gone; the working-day view asks how much of your finite work attention has already been spent. Use it alongside the year progress tool for the full-year view, or the working-days calculator when you need a precise count between two dates.
Elapsed working days are every Monday-to-Friday date from 1 January up to and including yesterday that is not a public holiday in the selected country. Today is deliberately excluded until it is over, so the tracker never credits you with a day you are still inside. The denominator applies the same test to the whole year, 1 January through 31 December, and the percentage is simply elapsed divided by total. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday change nothing, because those dates were never in either count.
Below the main bar, every month gets its own elapsed-versus-total row, and the totals are not equal. A 31-day month carries between 21 and 23 weekdays before holidays, a 30-day month between 20 and 22, and a 28-day February always exactly 20. Public holidays then thin specific months further: December loses days across much of Europe and the Americas, while a month with no national holiday keeps its full weekday count. Scanning the rows is a quick way to spot which stretches of the year offer a team the most uninterrupted capacity and which months are shorter than they look.
Every common year is 52 full weeks plus one extra day, and that extra day takes the weekday of 1 January. A year that starts on a Thursday therefore has 261 weekdays: 52 fives plus one more Thursday. Subtract each public holiday that lands Monday to Friday and you have this tool's denominator. With 11 weekday holidays that year offers 250 working days, which makes each single day worth 0.4 percent of the working year. Leap years add a second extra day and can push the weekday count to 262 before holidays come off.
No. A working day is only added once it has fully finished, so the elapsed count runs up to yesterday. The percentage ticks up overnight rather than drifting through the afternoon.
The two drift apart whenever weekends and public holidays sit unevenly around today's date. After a holiday-heavy stretch the working-day figure lags the calendar figure; after a long run of plain weeks it catches up or overtakes it.
Any year from 2000 to 2100. Future years sit at 0 percent until they begin, and the current year updates as each day completes, which makes the tool useful for both planning ahead and reviewing how a past year was distributed.
From the public Nager.Date dataset, which collates official national public holidays for around 110 countries and records observed substitute dates where governments declare them.
Only holidays the dataset marks as national are removed. A state-level or city-level day off, or an afternoon closure, still counts as a full working day here, so treat the output as an upper bound for regions with extra local holidays.