Working days in Norway in 2003
There are 251 working days in Norway in 2003, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 10 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
251
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
10
3 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
20.9
working days per month
Month-by-month working days in 2003
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 0 | 20 |
| March | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| April | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| July | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| August | 31 | 10 | 0 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 0 | 22 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 0 | 23 |
| November | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| December | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 10 | 251 |
Public holidays excluded from the 2003 working-day count
These are the 10 public holidays in Norway that land on a weekday in 2003 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 DayWed, Jan 1
- Maundy ThursdayThu, Apr 17
- Good FridayFri, Apr 18
- Easter MondayMon, Apr 21
- Labour DayThu, May 1
- Ascension DayThu, May 29
- Whit MondayMon, Jun 9
- Christmas EveWed, Dec 24
- Christmas DayThu, Dec 25
- St. Stephen's DayFri, Dec 26
How working days in Norway are counted in 2003
The 251 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2003, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 10 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 2003 that applies to 3 of Norway's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 251 working days works out to roughly 2,008 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
What counts as a working day in Norway
Norwegian working time under the Arbeidsmiljøloven sets a 40-hour standard week, reduced to 37.5 by collective agreement across most of the labour market. The standard private-sector week is Monday to Friday with banks operating Monday to Friday. The Tvisteloven and Domstolloven roll procedural deadlines falling on a Saturday, Sunday or helligdag to the next working day. Settlement of Norwegian krone transactions runs on Norges Bank's NBO settlement system, which observes the statutory ten-day list plus 1 May and 17 May, plus Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve from noon as half days under banking sector practice.
Norway has ten statutory public holidays under the Lov om helligdager og helligdagsfred of 1995. The list is fully Lutheran by historical inheritance: New Year's Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Ascension, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Labour Day on 1 May and Constitution Day on 17 May are not strictly helligdager but offentlige høytidsdager (public solemn days) under a separate 1947 statute and are nonetheless paid days off across the economy. Constitution Day commemorates the 1814 Eidsvoll constitution and is the most visibly celebrated day, with children's parades nationwide.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Norway 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 20.9 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 Norway holiday and working-day rules
- Lov om helligdager og helligdagsfred (LOV-1995-02-24-12)
- Lov om 1 og 17 mai som høgtidsdager (LOV-1947-04-26-1)
- Arbeidsmiljøloven section 10
- Norges Bank NBO calendar
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Norway holiday calendar for 2003. 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 Norway (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.