How Many Working Days in 2024?
The full breakdown for England & Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
Working days in 2024
254
England & Wales (Mon–Fri minus bank holidays)
By region
England & Wales
254
working days
Scotland
253
working days
Northern Ireland
252
working days
The 2024 working calendar in detail
England & Wales has 254 working days in 2024, set against 8 bank holidays across the year. That is 3 more than 2023, which had 251. The change comes from where the fixed-date holidays — New Year, Christmas, and Boxing Day — fall across the week, and whether any need a substitute day.
Easter falls early in 2024: Good Friday is Friday, 29 March 2024. Good Friday and Easter Monday are both bank holidays in England & Wales, so they remove two working days from the first quarter. An early Easter means the spring stretch from Easter to the late-May bank holiday is unusually long and unbroken.
2024 has 6 bank holidayslanding on a Monday or Friday in England & Wales, each creating a three-day weekend: New Year’s Day (Monday 1 January), Good Friday (Friday 29 March), Easter Monday (Monday 1 April), Early May bank holiday (Monday 6 May), Spring bank holiday (Monday 27 May), Summer bank holiday (Monday 26 August). These are the dates to watch when a short deadline could quietly absorb a long weekend.
Quarter by quarter
| Quarter | Months | Working days (E&W) |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | January–March | 63 |
| Q2 | April–June | 62 |
| Q3 | July–September | 65 |
| Q4 | October–December | 64 |
The lightest quarter for working days is Q2 (April–June, 62 working days), where the bank holidays cluster; the fullest is Q3 (July–September, 65 working days). Capacity planning, billing targets, and delivery forecasts are more realistic when they reflect this uneven spread rather than assuming a flat quarter.
Monthly breakdown
Bank holidays in 2024
Hover or tap a month above to jump to its working-day breakdown. The full bank holiday list lives on our 2024 bank holidays page.
England & Wales
- New Year’s Day01/01
- Good Friday29/03
- Easter Monday01/04
- Early May bank holiday06/05
- Spring bank holiday27/05
- Summer bank holiday26/08
- Christmas Day25/12
- Boxing Day26/12
Scotland
- New Year’s Day01/01
- 2nd January02/01
- Good Friday29/03
- Early May bank holiday06/05
- Spring bank holiday27/05
- Summer bank holiday05/08
- St Andrew’s Day02/12
- Christmas Day25/12
- Boxing Day26/12
Northern Ireland
- New Year’s Day01/01
- St Patrick’s Day18/03
- Good Friday29/03
- Easter Monday01/04
- Early May bank holiday06/05
- Spring bank holiday27/05
- Battle of the Boyne (Orangemen’s Day)12/07
- Summer bank holiday26/08
- Christmas Day25/12
- Boxing Day26/12
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