Count business days (Monday-Friday) between two dates, excluding weekends and your own holidays. Free and precise.
Enter a start and end date, optionally list holidays in YYYY-MM-DD format (comma separated), and the tool counts the business days between them, excluding weekends and any holidays you provide.
A business day is any day that is not a weekend day — that is the convention contracts, banks and shipping companies use. This calculator counts days excluding Saturdays and Sundays, which matches the default almost everywhere in the world.
Common uses: SLA and delivery deadlines, notice periods in contracts, project planning, payroll and overtime windows, and “respond within X business days” promises. For plain calendar differences (weekends included), use the Date Calculator.
Everything runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you type is ever sent to any server or stored.
Monday to Friday. Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) are always excluded.
Type them comma-separated in the holiday field, e.g. 2026-12-25, 2026-01-01. They are excluded from the count.
Yes — if they are weekdays (and not holidays), both are included.
Yes — the tool handles reversed date ranges correctly.
Contract deadlines, delivery promises, HR leave calculations and project planning all use business days.
Yes, completely free with no account.