Working days in Philippines in 2018
There are 246 working days in Philippines in 2018, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 15 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 104 weekend days removed.
Working days
246
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
104
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
15
3 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
20.5
working days per month
Month-by-month working days in 2018
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| March | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| June | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| July | 31 | 9 | 0 | 22 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 2 | 21 |
| September | 30 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| October | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 |
| December | 31 | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| Total | 365 | 104 | 15 | 246 |
Public holidays excluded from the 2018 working-day count
These are the 15 public holidays in Philippines that land on a weekday in 2018 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
- Chinese New YearFri, Feb 16
- Maundy ThursdayThu, Mar 29
- Good FridayFri, Mar 30
- Day of ValorMon, Apr 9
- Labour DayTue, May 1
- Independence DayTue, Jun 12
- Ninoy Aquino DayTue, Aug 21
- National Heroes DayMon, Aug 27
- All Saints' Day EveWed, Oct 31
- All Saints' DayThu, Nov 1
- Bonifacio DayFri, Nov 30
- Christmas EveMon, Dec 24
- Christmas DayTue, Dec 25
- Last Day of The YearMon, Dec 31
How working days in Philippines are counted in 2018
The 246 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 2018, minus the 104 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 15 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 2018 that applies to 3 of Philippines's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 246 working days works out to roughly 1,968 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
What counts as a working day in Philippines
The Labor Code (PD 442) article 83 sets the standard working week at 48 hours over six days, with the typical office and banking week being Monday to Friday at 8 to 9 hours. Sunday is the statutory weekly rest day under article 91. The Rules of Court rule 22 rolls procedural deadlines falling on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday to the next working day. Settlement of peso transactions runs on the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas's PhilPaSS RTGS system and the PCHC clearing house, which observe regular holidays; special non-working day status is set by separate Proclamation and affects clearing windows.
The Philippines distinguishes regular holidays from special non-working days under Presidential Decree 442 (Labor Code) book III rule IV and Proclamation 1841 series of 2009. Regular holidays carry 200 percent pay for work performed and 100 percent pay for non-work; special non-working days carry 130 percent pay for work and no pay for non-work (the no-work-no-pay rule). Regular holidays include New Year's Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Araw ng Kagitingan on 9 April commemorating the 1942 Fall of Bataan, Labor Day, Independence Day on 12 June, National Heroes Day on the last Monday of August, Bonifacio Day on 30 November, Christmas Day, Rizal Day on 30 December, plus Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
This matters because the working-day total is not spread evenly. Some months in Philippines 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 20.5 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 Philippines holiday and working-day rules
- Presidential Decree 442 (Labor Code) book III rule IV
- Republic Act 9849 of 2009 (Holiday Economics)
- Rules of Court Rule 22 (computation of time)
- Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas PhilPaSS calendar (bsp.gov.ph)
To see the individual dates, the day of the week each holiday lands on, and the full official list, open the Philippines holiday calendar for 2018. 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 Philippines (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.