Working days in Latvia in 1996
There are 235 working days in Latvia in 1996, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 28 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 366 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
235
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
28
16 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
19.6
working days per month
Month-by-month working days in 1996
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| February | 29 | 8 | 0 | 21 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 6 | 17 |
| June | 30 | 10 | 3 | 17 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| August | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| September | 30 | 9 | 0 | 21 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| November | 30 | 9 | 3 | 18 |
| December | 31 | 9 | 5 | 17 |
| Total | 366 | 104 | 28 | 235 |
Public holidays excluded from the 1996 working-day count
These are the 28 public holidays in Latvia that land on a weekday in 1996 and therefore remove a working day. Holidays that fall on a weekend are not listed here because they do not change the working-day total.
- New Year's DayMon, Jan 1
- Day of the International (de jure) Recognition of the Republic of LatviaFri, Jan 26
- International Women's DayFri, Mar 8
- Commemoration Day of Victims of Communist TerrorMon, Mar 25
- Good FridayFri, Apr 5
- Easter MondayMon, Apr 8
- Labour DayWed, May 1
- Day of the Convocation of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of LatviaWed, May 1
- Day of the Restoration of Independence of the Republic of LatviaMon, May 6
- Day of the Defeat of Nazism and Commemoration Day of Victims of World War IIWed, May 8
- Europe DayThu, May 9
- International Day of the FamilyWed, May 15
- Firefighter and Rescuer DayFri, May 17
- Commemoration Day of Victims of Communist TerrorFri, Jun 14
- Day of the Occupation of the Republic of LatviaMon, Jun 17
- Jāņi DayMon, Jun 24
- Commemoration Day of Genocide Against the JewsThu, Jul 4
- Day of the Passing of the Constitutional Law on the Status of the Republic of Latvia as a StateWed, Aug 21
- Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and NazismFri, Aug 23
- International Day of Older PersonsTue, Oct 1
- Border Guards DayThu, Nov 7
- Lāčplēsis DayMon, Nov 11
- Day of the Proclamation of the Republic of LatviaMon, Nov 18
- Police DayThu, Dec 5
- Christmas EveTue, Dec 24
- Christmas DayWed, Dec 25
- Second day of ChristmasThu, Dec 26
- New Year's EveTue, Dec 31
How working days in Latvia are counted in 1996
The 235 working days shown above are the 366 calendar days of 1996, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 28 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 1996 that applies to 16 of Latvia's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 235 working days works out to roughly 1,880 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
A working day in Latvia is generally any day from Monday to Friday that is not a public holiday. The count above uses that standard business-week definition, which is the basis most payroll systems, court filing rules, and commercial contracts use when they specify a number of business days. If your organisation treats Saturday as a partial working day, or observes regional holidays beyond the national list, the real total for your situation will differ slightly from the national figure shown here.
The working-day total is not evenly distributed across the year. Some months carry several public holidays while others have none, so the month-by-month table above is the figure to use for payroll, billing, and project planning rather than a flat assumption of about 19.6 working days per month. A holiday that lands on a Friday or Monday also creates a long weekend, which changes travel and delivery patterns for the days on either side even though it only removes one working day from the count.
When a public holiday in Latvia falls on a weekend, many jurisdictions grant a substitute day off on the nearest weekday. Where the source data records that substitution, the observed weekday is what reduces the working-day total; the original weekend date does not. For legally binding deadlines counted in business days, always confirm the observed holiday dates against the official calendar, because regional variations and one-off proclamations can shift the count.
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Latvia holiday calendar for 1996. 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 Latvia (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.