Business-day and working-day rules, made explicit.
Plan business-day and working-day deadlines across Canadian jurisdictions. Definitions vary by province, court rule, and contract, so choose the rules and holiday profile that apply to you.
Built for legal, insurance, payroll, and operations teams coordinating timelines across Canadian jurisdictions.
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Calculate Canadian business days and working days using the province, territory, federal, or court rule set that matches your matter.
Canada does not have one universal business-day or working-day definition. Provinces, territories, federal matters, court systems, and contracts can use different holiday calendars and counting rules. This calculator keeps those choices visible so you can select the rule set that actually applies.
Use default mode for ordinary working-day calculations with optional shutdown overlays. Switch to Court Rules Mode when you need the court-specific counting rules that apply in the selected jurisdiction.
Disclaimer: Use at your own risk and verify deadlines against the governing statute, contract, or court rules.
Use it to count forward or backward, compare calendar days against working days, or measure the number of days between two dates. Sequential mode helps when one milestone feeds the next, such as finance, due diligence, and settlement.
The calculator gives you the rule tools; you supply the legally correct trigger date. Review the result analysis before relying on the output.
Count forward to a deadline, count backward from an event, or measure the days between two dates. Switch between working days, public-holiday counting, and calendar days as needed.
Chain up to six periods so each result becomes the next start date. Useful for staged Canadian transactions, project milestones, and settlement planning.
Choose whether the start date or end date counts so the result matches the wording in your contract, statute, or court rule.
Federal holidays plus province- and territory-specific holidays are built in, including regional differences such as Family Day variants, St-Jean-Baptiste Day, and Nunavut Day.
Select the holiday calendar used by an ordinary working-day count. Court Rules Mode has a separate court-jurisdiction selector.
Where the governing rule set recognises observed or shifted holidays, the calculation reflects those dates instead of assuming one national pattern.
Add optional shutdown periods for non-court calculations when your contract, project, or industry practice excludes those dates.
Review the result on a colour-coded timeline showing counted days, weekends, holidays, and excluded dates.
See why dates were excluded, which rule controls were applied, and export 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 2026 construction vacations run 19 July to 1 August and 20 December to 2 January. 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.
