How Many Weeks in a Year

A year has 52 weeks plus 1 day.

One calendar year has 365 days , which are divided into 7-day weeks . To know how many weeks there are in a year, you divide the number of days in a year (365) by how many days there are in a week (7).

The result will be the average number of weeks there are in a year, which is approximately 52,143, or 52 weeks plus 1 day .

Every four years, there is a leap year, which has 366 days . By the same calculations, we can understand that in leap years there are 52 weeks and 2 days .

If we want to get even more specific, we can say that:

• 1 year = 52 weeks and weekends
• 1 year = 12 months
• 1 year = 0.1 decades
• 1 year = 8760 hours
• 1 year = 525600 minutes

The Year 2023 in Numbers

During 2023 we will be able to enjoy:

• 52 weekends
• 52 Saturdays
• 53 Sundays
• 11 federal holidays *
• 260 working days

*A federal holiday in the United States is a day that is recognized by the federal US Government as a holiday. The United States Congress designates these in Title V of the United States Code (5 USC § 6103). 

4 Facts About Weeks That You Probably Don't Know

• A week has 7 days because the Gregorian calendar follows the moon's phases. Although the Moon takes 29.5 days to cycle through its phases, this is a hard number to base a time span on.
• The Babylonians rounded this cycle to 28 days and divided it into period units of 4, with 7 days each. This is why there are 4 weeks in a month.
• In the English language, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday are named after three of the planets considered to be gods - Saturn, Sun, and Moon - while the other days are named after Germanic or Norse gods.
• Although the international standard defines that the week starts on a Monday, in the United States the norm is still to count Sunday as the first day of the week.

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