Business Days Calculator

1. Calculate business days between two dates
2. How many days until a date without weekends
• Weekdays until date
3. How long is N business days from today?
4. The business day and the week
5. Public Holidays in the US in 2026
6. Number of working days in 2026
• How many business days are left in 2026
• Weekdays left in 2026

    Calculate business days between two dates

If you wish to know how many work days you have until a job deadline, until retirement or even until your wedding, simply enter the start date and the end date of the period you are interested in while in "Business days counter" mode. The result displays all days until the said date without weekends (and official holidays if the option is selected). You can also choose whether to include the last day of the period in the final calculation.

For example, if you have to deliver a project by Dec 1, 2026, enter that date in the "end date" field. If you are starting from today, leave the "start date" field as it is by default. Click "Calculate" and you will get the number of work days (weekdays minus official holidays) you will have. This way you will know how many business days are available for you to complete the job. If you would only be available to work on that project from Nov 1 onwards, just enter that as a starting date instead.

This working days calculator counts as business days all days between Monday and Friday, except if they are declared as official holidays at a national level. It can account for country-specific holidays for the following countries:

• United States (Federal holidays)
• United Kingdom (Bank holidays)
• Canada (Public holidays - Statutory & Federal employees holidays)
• Australia (National holidays)

If the holidays calendar applicable to your country, state, region, or religious affiliation is different from the above, you will need to account for that by manually subtracting the number of days with such holidays from the result you get from our business days calculator. When you are aware of your country’s holiday calendar, just subtract the number of non-working days that fall within the timeframe of interest from the final result.

    How many days until a date without weekends

If you want to find out how many days until a date without counting weekends, just enter the two dates and choose "Weekends only" in the "Days off are" input field. This way the calculator outputs how many weekdays remain until the given date while excluding weekends from the calculation.

For example, to find out how many days until Jul 4 without weekends, simply enter the current date as a "Start date", enter July 4-th, 2026 as an "End date", and see how many business days remain until that year's US Independence Day.

Weekdays until date

The table below contains a quick reference for the number of weekdays until upcoming dates.

For example, to see the number of days until July 16, 2026 without weekends, just look up its row to see both the number of weekdays as well as the number of working days. If there are no official holidays during the specified period, the two numbers will coincide.

    How long is N business days from today?

Calculating which date would be after a given number of working days or how long is N business days from today in calendar days is another common use for our tool. For example, to calculate how long is 5 business days from today, that is to add 5 business days to a date, simply select "Add business days" mode and then enter five in the field for how many days to add. If you want to see which date is 7 business days from today, do the same, but enter seven. The tool will also count the number of calendar days N business days from today, essentially doubling as a day counter.

To work with a date different from today's, just change the "Start date" field's date to the one you are interested in. For example, to estimate how long is 10 business days from a date in the future, just enter that date as a start date field and enter 10 in the next input to perform the addition. Remember to add one day for each holiday during that time, e.g. New Year's Eve, Christmas, Easter and others if the country you are interested in is not currently supported (just choose the country from the list otherwise).

Advanced tip: if you put a negative number in the "Add" field, that many weekdays will be subtracted from the start date!

    The business day and the week

A business day, also known as a working day or "workday", is any official work day. In most regions this includes the days between Monday and Friday (including). It excludes the weekend and official holidays in the given country; these can be religious or national holidays. There are about 20 business days in a month.

But why do we work from Monday to Friday in Western countries? And why is a week seven days?

Although it is widely believed that the idea of a seven day week comes from Babylon and is based on the Moon cycles, there are those who disagree. Some claim that the Jewish people had their own completely separate reasons for creating a similar way of dividing the month. In defense of the latter theory there seems to be evidence to suggest that Judaists used such seven day-based cycles unrelated to the moon no later than the 6^th century BC.

While we might never have a straight answer to how weeks were invented, where, when, and why; one thing is obvious – a large part of the world today uses weeks comprising of seven days, which also mark when the work days (also school days) and when the rest days are. This is usually applied alongside the Gregorian calendar, although not exclusively. What is also common between most countries is having two rest days in the week, although in different cultures it varies which days exactly those would be. In most of Western cultures the rest days are Saturday and Sunday, and the working days - Monday through Friday.

The two-day weekend was applied in the UK, US, and Canada by 1955. Multiple factors led to that and it took decades for the idea to be accepted by employers. The 40-hour work week only became the rule throughout Europe in the 70s, followed by the Middle East.

This business day calculator is not suitable for countries where the weekend starts on Friday and ends on Saturday, or where there is a one-day weekend.

    Public Holidays in the US in 2026

Below is a calendar of the Federal holidays in the United States in 2026 ^[1][2]. All of these are non-working days and would be excluded from working day calculations if the "Exclude" option is selected.

US Public Holidays in 2026

Date	Name
Jan 01, 2026	New Year's Day
Jan 19, 2026	Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Feb 16, 2026	Presidents' Day
May 25, 2026	Memorial Day
Jun 19, 2026	Juneteenth
Jul 03, 2026	Independence Day (substitute)
Jul 04, 2026	Independence Day
Sep 07, 2026	Labor Day
Oct 12, 2026	Columbus Day
Nov 11, 2026	Veterans Day
Nov 26, 2026	Thanksgiving Day
Dec 25, 2026	Christmas Day

In summary, in 2026 there are a total of 12 public holidays in the US, 11 of which fall on weekdays and have an effect on the number of working days available in the year.

    Number of working days in 2026

There are 250 working days in 2026 in the United States, which is about 35.7 work weeks in total. These numbers exclude weekends as well as 11 US Federal Holidays that fall on weekdays. The number of weekdays this year is 261, holidays included.

How many business days are left in 2026

In the US, as of Jun 16, 2026 there are 136 business days left until the end of the year. This count excludes both weekends and official US holidays.

Weekdays left in 2026

As of Jun 16, 2026 there are 143 weekdays left in 2026 without accounting for any type of official holidays. This is just the number of days remaining till years' end, without weekends.