Working days in Egypt in 1968

How working days in Egypt are counted in 1968

The 262 working days shown above are the 366 calendar days of 1968, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 0 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 1968 that applies to 0 of Egypt's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 262 working days works out to roughly 2,096 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.

What counts as a working day in Egypt

Labour Law 12 of 2003 article 80 sets the standard private-sector week at 48 hours over six days, with Friday as the statutory weekly rest day under article 81. The official weekend in government, banking and most office sectors is Friday and Saturday following the 2007 reform. During Ramadan, article 81 reduces the working day by two hours for fasting employees. The Civil and Commercial Procedure Code rolls deadlines falling on a Friday, Saturday or public holiday to the next working day. Settlement of Egyptian pound transactions runs on the Central Bank of Egypt's RTGS and the Egyptian Banks Company's domestic clearing, which observe the gazetted holiday list.

Egypt's official public holidays are set by Labour Law 12 of 2003 article 52 together with annual Prime Ministerial decree gazetted in al-Waqa'i al-Misriyya. The list runs to about fifteen days: Coptic Christmas on 7 January, 25 January Revolution Day, Sinai Liberation Day on 25 April, Coptic Easter Sunday and Sham El-Nessim on the following Monday, Labour Day on 1 May, 30 June Revolution Day, 23 July Revolution Day commemorating the 1952 Free Officers movement, Armed Forces Day on 6 October, plus Islamic holidays by lunar calendar: Islamic New Year, the Prophet's birthday, Eid al-Fitr (three days) and Eid al-Adha (four days). The mix balances civic, Coptic Christian and Islamic observance across Egypt's calendar.

This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Egypt 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 21.8 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 Egypt holiday calendar for 1968. 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 Egypt (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.