Working days in Venezuela in 1977
There are 239 working days in Venezuela in 1977, counting Monday to Friday and excluding 21 public holidays that fall on a weekday. That is from 365 calendar days, with 105 weekend days removed.
Working days
239
Mon-Fri, holidays removed
Weekend days
105
Saturdays + Sundays
Weekday holidays
21
13 more fall on weekends
Avg / month
19.9
working days per month
Month-by-month working days in 1977
| Month | Days | Weekends | Holidays | Working days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| February | 28 | 8 | 2 | 18 |
| March | 31 | 8 | 3 | 20 |
| April | 30 | 9 | 1 | 20 |
| May | 31 | 9 | 2 | 20 |
| June | 30 | 8 | 3 | 19 |
| July | 31 | 10 | 2 | 19 |
| August | 31 | 8 | 1 | 22 |
| September | 30 | 8 | 1 | 21 |
| October | 31 | 10 | 1 | 20 |
| November | 30 | 8 | 2 | 20 |
| December | 31 | 9 | 1 | 21 |
| Total | 365 | 105 | 21 | 239 |
Public holidays excluded from the 1977 working-day count
These are the 21 public holidays in Venezuela that land on a weekday in 1977 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.
- EpiphanyThu, Jan 6
- Feast of the Divina PastoraFri, Jan 14
- CarnivalMon, Feb 21
- CarnivalTue, Feb 22
- International Women's DayTue, Mar 8
- Slavery Abolition AnniversaryMon, Mar 21
- Foundation anniversary Day of San Cristóbal, TáchiraThu, Mar 31
- Beginning of the Independence MovementTue, Apr 19
- Festival of the CrossesTue, May 3
- Ascension DayThu, May 19
- Corpus ChristiThu, Jun 9
- Anniversary of the Battle of CaraboboFri, Jun 24
- Journalists' DayMon, Jun 27
- Independence DayTue, Jul 5
- Caracas City Foundation DayMon, Jul 25
- Flag DayWed, Aug 3
- Birth of the Blessed Virgin MaryThu, Sep 8
- Day of Indigenous ResistanceWed, Oct 12
- All Saints' DayTue, Nov 1
- All Souls' DayWed, Nov 2
- Immaculate Conception DayThu, Dec 8
How working days in Venezuela are counted in 1977
The 239 working days shown above are the 365 calendar days of 1977, minus the 105 Saturdays and Sundays, minus the 21 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 1977 that applies to 13 of Venezuela's public holidays. At a standard eight-hour day, 239 working days works out to roughly 1,912 working hours across the year, before any annual leave is taken.
A working day in Venezuela 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 19.9 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 Venezuela 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 Venezuela holiday calendar for 1977. 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 Venezuela (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.