Working days in Bangladesh in 2020

How working days in Bangladesh are counted in 2020

The 256 working days shown above are the 366 calendar days of 2020, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 6 public holidays that land on a weekday. Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday are not subtracted, because they do not remove a day anyone would have worked; in 2020 that applies to 0 of Bangladesh's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 256 working days works out to roughly 2,048 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.

What counts as a working day in Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 section 100 sets the standard working week at 48 hours over six days. The official government and banking week is Sunday to Thursday at 8 to 9 hours, with Friday and Saturday as the weekend; Friday is the statutory weekly rest day under Islamic practice and section 103, with Saturday added as a second rest day for government and banking since 1997. The Code of Civil Procedure 1908 section 4 rolls procedural deadlines falling on a holiday to the next working day. Settlement of taka transactions runs on Bangladesh Bank's RTGS and BACH clearing, which observe the gazetted banking holiday list.

Bangladesh's public holidays are declared annually by the Ministry of Public Administration in coordination with the Ministry of Religious Affairs and total about twenty-two days including general holidays, executive order holidays and optional holidays. The civic core includes International Mother Language Day on 21 February marking the 1952 Bengali language martyrs, Independence Day on 26 March commemorating the 1971 declaration, Bengali New Year (Pohela Boishakh) on 14 April, May Day on 1 May, National Mourning Day on 15 August marking the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Victory Day on 16 December marking the 1971 liberation. The religious calendar adds Eid-e-Miladunnabi, Shab-e-Barat, Shab-e-Qadr, Eid-ul-Fitr (three days), Eid-ul-Adha (three days), Ashura, Durga Puja, Buddha Purnima and Christmas.

This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Bangladesh carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll runs, billing cycles, SLA windows, and project plans rather than a flat assumption of about 21.3 working days per month. A month with two weekday holidays can have several fewer working days than a clear one, which changes capacity planning and the realistic delivery date for anything scheduled in business days.

To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Bangladesh holiday calendar for 2020. You can subscribe to those dates as an .ics feed so they appear in your own calendar, or use the working-days-between-two-dates calculator to count business days for a specific date range rather than the whole year.

Working-day figures are computed from the public holiday list for Bangladesh (source: Nager.Date and the national references above) combined with a Monday-to-Friday business week. Regional holidays and substitute-day rules vary; confirm against the official calendar for legal or payroll use.