Counting business days in Pakistan
If you work with Pakistani clients, banks, courts or suppliers, a business day count isn't as simple as skipping weekends. National holidays, Islamic festivals that move each year and different weekend patterns all change the answer.
Pick a start and end date. The calculator counts working days, subtracts public holidays for 2025 to 2027 and lets you choose a Friday and Saturday weekend or a Saturday and Sunday one.
Weekends differ by workplace
Most government offices follow a Saturday and Sunday weekend, while many private businesses, schools and some banks work a half day on Saturday. Some firms with Gulf clients follow Friday and Saturday. The toggle covers both common cases.
If your company has its own pattern, add the extra days as custom closures.
Why Islamic holidays move
Eid, Muharram and other Islamic dates follow the lunar calendar, which runs about 11 days shorter than the solar year. So these holidays arrive earlier each year. The exact day also depends on moon sighting, so the official date can shift by a day at the last minute.
The tool uses expected dates. Always check the official announcement for Eid, since the government confirms it close to the date, and the holiday may last several days.
- National days like Pakistan Day, Labour Day and Independence Day are fixed
- Eid ul Fitr and Eid ul Adha are expected dates and may move by a day
- Provincial and local holidays are not included. Add them as custom dates
Using it for deadlines
Contracts often say within 10 working days. Run the count from the start date and check which weekend rule applies. When a holiday falls close to a deadline, add a buffer.
This is a planning aid, not an official calendar. Your dates stay in your browser.
A deadline example
Say a bank gives you 10 working days to submit a document from a Monday. Without holidays, that lands on the Friday of the following week. Add a public holiday in between and it slides to the Monday after. The tool does that math for you, so you don't count on your fingers and get it wrong.
Courts, tax offices and universities often use their own calendars. For anything legal, confirm the date with the office itself and keep the receipt.
Eid holidays cause the biggest shifts, since they can run for two to three days and sometimes get extended by the government at short notice.
Working with moon-based dates
The Islamic calendar follows the moon, and the sighting committee confirms dates only a day or two ahead. A holiday you expected on a Thursday might land on Friday. Treat any date more than a few weeks out as an estimate.
So for contracts, write the clause as 'ten working days excluding public holidays announced by the government' and not as a fixed calendar date.
Add custom dates for local events, provincial days off or your own company closures, and the count adjusts.
Common uses
Delivery promises, notice periods, payment terms and invoice due dates all run on working days. Net 15 working days sounds simple until a long Eid break sits in the middle of it.
Freelancers quoting clients abroad should mention that local holidays apply. A client in another time zone won't know that Pakistan is closed on a given Wednesday unless you say so.