Working days in United Kingdom in 1938
There are 260 working days in United Kingdom in 1938, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 0 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 105 weekend days removed.
Working days
260
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
105
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
0
0 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
21.7
working days per month
Public holiday data for United Kingdom in 1938 was not available from the source, so the figures above count weekdays only and do not subtract national holidays. Treat the working-day total as an upper bound.
Month-by-month working days in 1938
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| December | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| Total | 365 | 105 | 0 | 260 |
How working days in United Kingdom are counted in 1938
The 260 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 1938, minus the 105 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 1938 that applies to 0 of United Kingdom's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 260 working days works out to roughly 2,080 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
What counts as a working day in United Kingdom
Working days in UK statute usually mean any day other than Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday and a bank holiday in the relevant part of the United Kingdom, the wording used in the Companies Act 2006 and the Civil Procedure Rules. The Working Time Regulations 1998 entitle workers to 5.6 weeks of paid annual leave, which can include bank holidays at the employer's discretion. Banking settlement follows the Bank of England's calendar, which tracks the bank holiday list. Scotland's bank holidays differ from England and Wales: 2 January is a Scottish bank holiday and Easter Monday is not.
The United Kingdom does not have public holidays in the continental sense. England and Wales recognise bank holidays under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, plus common-law holidays such as Christmas Day and Good Friday. Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own statutory lists, which is why St Andrew's Day, Battle of the Boyne and the second January bank holiday appear on some calendars and not others. The Department for Business and Trade publishes the official schedule each year. Employers are under no statutory obligation to give workers paid leave on bank holidays; entitlement is whatever the employment contract specifies, set against the Working Time Regulations 5.6 weeks minimum.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in United Kingdom 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 21.7 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.
Sources for United Kingdom holiday and working-day rules
- Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971
- Department for Business and Trade UK bank holidays (gov.uk/bank-holidays)
- Working Time Regulations 1998 (SI 1998/1833)
- Civil Procedure Rules Part 2.8 (working day definition)
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the United Kingdom holiday calendar for 1938. 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 United Kingdom (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.