Next year will be a ‘leap year’, meaning there will be 366 days in the calendar year. Here’s how many of those days will be Mondays …
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A leap year is a calendar year that contains an additional day compared to a ‘common’ year.
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The 366th day is added to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical year.
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An astronomical year lasts slightly less than 365 1/4 days.
The historic Julian calendar has three common years of 365 days followed by a leap year of 366 days, by extending February to 29 days rather than the common 28.
The Gregorian calendar, the world’s most widely used civil calendar, makes a further adjustment for the small error in the Julian algorithm.
Again each leap year has 366 days instead of 365.
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This extra leap day occurs in each year that is an integer multiple of 4 (except for years evenly divisible by 100, but not by 400).
A look at the calendar for 2024 shows that the year will have 53 Mondays and Tuesdays, and 52 Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
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| Day | Days |
| Monday | 53 |
| Tuesday | 53 |
| Wednesday | 52 |
| Thursday | 52 |
| Friday | 52 |
| Saturday | 52 |
| Sunday | 52 |
| TOTAL | 366 |
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