Count business days between dates.
Choose your holiday calendar, add or subtract days, and see which dates are excluded.
Built for legal, insurance, payroll, and operations teams coordinating timelines across Canadian jurisdictions.
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Business-day definitions vary by province, court rule and contract, so choose the federal, provincial, territorial or sourced Canadian court rules that apply to your deadline.
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Count business days or find a date using a federal, provincial or territorial holiday calendar. Choose court rules when they apply. For monthly and annual totals, see Ontario working days by month.
Count business days between two dates, or add or subtract days to find a date. Choose the federal, provincial or territorial holiday calendar you need.
Working-day definitions can differ between contracts and legal rules. Choose which days to count and add any extra periods that should be left out.
For monthly and annual totals, see Ontario working days by month.
Check your starting date and counting rules against the contract, law or court rules that apply.
Turn on Use court rules to apply the counting rules for a supported Canadian court. Check which date your deadline starts from and review the selected settings.
For a deadline with several stages, calculate up to six linked periods so each end date becomes the next start date. The results show which days were counted and which were left out.
Count forwards or backwards from a date, or count days between two dates. Choose working days, calendar days or public-holiday counting.
Calculate up to six linked periods so each end date becomes the next start date. Useful for transactions and projects with several stages.
Choose whether to count the start and end dates, as required by your contract, law or court rules.
Choose from federal, provincial and territorial holidays, including regional holidays such as Family Day, St-Jean-Baptiste Day and Nunavut Day.
Select a federal, provincial or territorial calendar for a standard working-day count. For court deadlines, select the relevant supported court.
The calculator uses substitute holiday dates where the selected calendar or court rules recognise them.
Add periods that should be left out of a manual working-day count when your contract or project requires it.
See counted days, weekends, holidays and other days left out on a colour-coded timeline.
See why days were left out and which court options were applied. Download the result with its calculation settings.
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Canadian guidance on statutory holiday edge cases, provincial differences, and business-day assumptions that affect timelines.
Ontario has nine ESA public holidays in 2026. Civic Holiday remains a working day in the ordinary calculator, while Boxing Day falls on Saturday.
The 2026 public holidays for every province and territory, with the federal list and the dates that differ across Canada.
Calendar days count every date. Working days exclude dates defined by the applicable rule or contract. Clear days affect which endpoints count.
Quebec's next construction vacations run 20 December 2026 to 2 January 2027 and 25 July to 7 August 2027. The calculator can exclude either verified CCQ period.
Canadian and US holiday calendars overlap in some weeks and split in others. A cross-border count needs a stated calendar for each side.
WorkingDayCalculator.ca handles the complexity of Canadian working day calculations across provinces, territories, federal matters, and supported court-rule profiles. Use it for ordinary business-day calculations, contractual notice periods, settlement timelines, and court deadlines where the applicable rule set is available.
Learn more about our methodology, data sources, and publisher, review the Canada rule guides, or explore real-world use cases.
Choose the right rule set. Count from the right trigger date.