Use this planner to count workdays between two dates, project deadlines, compare two holiday calendars, and find the next day both sides are open. Quick deadline presets Saved nationwide holiday dates load automatically for the selected years, while the extra date fields stay editable. 2025-2030. Saved national holiday presets currently cover the United States, Spain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Portugal for 2025-2030. Regional, state, local, and company closure days can be added manually. Choose a start date and either an end date or a number of business days to add or subtract. Select the primary holiday country and, if needed, a comparison country to see shared open days. Add extra closure dates as YYYY-MM-DD, one per line, then use the share link, CSV, or .ics export if you need to keep the plan. Why business days are different A business-day deadline is not the same as a calendar-day deadline. Banks, courts, shipping companies, payroll teams, and support desks often skip weekends and public holidays. This tool includes built-in holiday calendars for supported countries, a comparison country, and extra closure boxes for company shutdowns or local dates that the built-in lists do not cover. Business-day rules vary by country, industry, and contract. Many organizations use Monday to Friday, but some regions use Friday-Saturday weekends or have company shutdown days that must be excluded. The built-in country calendars cover common public holidays for supported countries, but they are not a complete rule for every deadline. Add only the regional, company, court, bank, shipping provider, or service-level dates that apply to your case. When communicating a deadline, include the counting rule. “10 business days excluding weekends and listed holidays” is clearer than “10 days” and avoids disputes around delivery or response times. This calculator can be used in two ways: count working days between dates, or project a future deadline by adding business days. Keeping both results visible helps catch mistakes before a date is sent to a customer or team. In the United States, federal holidays, state holidays, and bank holidays do not always match. In the United Kingdom, bank holidays differ between England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Enter the dates that apply to the specific deadline. In Spain, autonomous communities and local municipalities can have their own holidays. France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, and Canada also have regional differences that matter for payroll, shipping, legal, and support deadlines. For customer-facing promises, write the result as a date and a rule: for example, “response due by 2026-06-04, counting Monday-Friday and excluding listed holidays.” That is much harder to misread than “within 10 business days.” Business days are especially important for net payment terms, chargeback response windows, insurance claims, appeal periods, procurement deadlines, and support queues. In each case, using calendar days by mistake can make a deadline appear earlier or later than intended. Some companies pause the clock during year-end shutdowns, bridge days, or office closures that are not public holidays. Add those dates manually if they should not count for your team or contract. For shipping and delivery estimates, remember that the carrier’s business days may not match your office days. A warehouse, courier, customs office, and customer support desk can each follow a different calendar. For legal, tax, or court deadlines, treat this calculator as a planning aid and verify the final date with the relevant authority or professional adviser. Jurisdictions can have special rules for weekends, observed holidays, and filing cut-off times. Common business-day deadlines The same phrase can mean different things in shipping, finance, legal operations, and customer support. These examples show when the calculator is useful and what rule to confirm before relying on a date. Shipping and fulfillment A promise like “ships in 3-5 business days” normally skips weekends and may also skip carrier holidays, warehouse shutdowns, or customs office closures. Banking and settlement Transfers, refunds, chargebacks, and payroll processing often use banking days. The holiday calendar should match the bank or payment processor, not only your office. Legal and admin deadlines Contracts and public agencies may define business days precisely. Check whether the start day counts, whether the final day is included, and how observed holidays are handled. How to read the result The counted weekdays between the start and end dates after the selected weekend days and listed holidays are excluded.

The date reached after adding or subtracting the number of business days from the start date. This is useful for “due in 10 business days” style deadlines. Weekend days skipped and holidays skipped are shown separately so you can explain why the business-day count differs from the calendar-day count. Rules that change the result Weekend definitions are not universal. Some teams skip Saturday and Sunday, others skip Friday and Saturday. Built-in country holidays help with common national calendars, but regional and company closures can still change the result. Adding business days to a date and counting business days between dates are related tasks, but not identical ones. Built-in holidays and extra closures Use the country selectors for the primary and comparison holiday calendars. Enter extra closure dates one per line in ISO format, such as 2026-12-25. Keep extra closures scoped to the market, carrier, court, bank, or team whose rule you actually need. Typical real-world uses Estimate shipping, onboarding, approvals, or procurement timelines. Work out banking, compliance, or contract deadlines that skip weekends and holidays. Plan project buffers when a task depends on office hours in a specific country. Worked examples For a US deadline from 2026-06-29 to 2026-07-06, the selected holiday calendar can skip the observed Independence Day closure. For a shipment between two countries, compare both calendars and use shared open days when both sides must be working. For an internal SLA, add company shutdown dates as extra closures instead of treating every weekday as available. Continue with another calculator that solves a nearby date or time task. Public Holidays View public holidays by country and year, find the next holiday, inspect month coverage, and export CSV or ICS calendar files. Date Difference Calculate the exact difference between two dates in days, weeks, months, years, weekdays, and inclusive ranges. Meeting Planner Compare several cities, rank fair meeting slots, save shareable setups, and export calendar invites for distributed teams. By default, Monday through Friday count. Saturday and Sunday are skipped. Yes. The country selectors load supported public holiday calendars, and the extra closure boxes let you add company shutdowns, regional holidays, or dates missing from the built-in list. Supported countries load built-in public holiday dates for the selected years. You should still add regional, local, company, court, bank, or carrier closures manually when they apply to your deadline. Use the weekend-day checkboxes to choose the days your rule excludes. If a non-working date is not part of the weekly pattern, add it as an extra closure. A holiday that falls on Saturday or Sunday usually does not change the count, unless your organization observes it on a weekday. Yes, if your SLA uses Monday-Friday business days and you enter the holidays or closure days that the SLA excludes.