Working Days in August 2026

August 2026 has 31 calendar days, of which 10 fall at the weekend. It opens on a Saturday and closes on a Monday, and contains 5 Mondays — useful to know if your payroll or reporting cut-off lands on a particular weekday.

There is 1 bank holidayin England & Wales this month: Summer bank holiday on Monday 31 August. 20 working days remain once it is removed along with the weekends.

August 2026 has the same number of working days as August 2025 (20).

Across the year, August has the second-fewest working days of any month in 2026in England & Wales. All three UK regions share the same total of 20 working days this month.

For HR and payroll, the working-day count drives pro-rata pay for anyone starting or leaving part-way through August, and the number of Mondays affects weekly-paid staff and any cut-off tied to the start of the week. For project and finance teams, it sets the realistic capacity for the month before leave is even taken into account.

Working days are counted Monday to Friday, excluding the bank holidays shown above for the region you choose. Scotland and Northern Ireland carry extra holidays — Scotland’s 2nd January, St Andrew’s Day, and an early-August Summer holiday; Northern Ireland’s St Patrick’s Day and Battle of the Boyne — so a UK-wide team can have three different figures for the same month. Use the calculator below to count forwards or backwards from any date in August 2026.