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ausref Working Days Calculator
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ausref Working Days Calculator is a paid API for AI agents from ausref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns the count of working days between two dates for Australia or New Zealand, accounting for official public holidays cited from government sources.
Price / call$0.005
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Authoritative Australasian government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for Australia (au), New Zealand (nz). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.
Output
A JSON object containing the computed number of working days for the specified country and date range, along with a list of public holidays that were excluded, each with an official government citation, effective date, last-confirmed date, and a staleness flag indicating whether the data may be out of date.
Example use cases
Contract deadline calculation for AU
“I need to know how many business days there are between 15 August 2026 and 30 September 2026 in Australia — I'm calculating a statutory notice period and need the official public holidays included.”
NZ payroll period working days
“Can you count the working days in New Zealand for the month of October 2026? I need it for payroll processing and want the number to reflect official NZ public holidays.”
Project timeline planning across AU states
“How many working days are between 1 March 2026 and 1 June 2026 in Australia? I'm planning a project schedule and need to exclude all public holidays recognised at the national level.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://ausref.dev/v1/answers/working-daysWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need an authoritative, citation-backed count of working days for Australia or New Zealand, especially for legal, payroll, or compliance contexts where each excluded public holiday must be traceable to an official government source. Prefer it over generic business-day calculators that do not cite primary sources or may not reflect the latest gazetted holidays.
Side effects
- Invalid or missing country code returns an error — only 'au' and 'nz' are supported
- Date range outside supported data coverage returns a staleness warning or error
- Malformed date format causes a validation error
- Network or upstream government data unavailability may return a stale flag or error
- Very long date ranges may include holidays not yet officially gazetted, flagged as unconfirmed
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| properties | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"unit": "percent",
"notes": "The Board raised the target 25bp from 4.10% to 4.35% at its 5 May 2026 meeting (media release mr-26-12); RBA convention is that a change takes effect the business day AFTER the decision, hence effective_from 2026-05-06. The Board met again on 16 June 2026 and left the target unchanged, so 4.35% is confirmed current as at 2026-07-20. 2026 tightening sequence to date: 3.60% -> 3.85% (decision 3 Feb 2026, mr-26-03, eff. 4 Feb 2026), -> 4.10% (decision 17 Mar 2026, eff. 18 Mar 2026, a 5-4 split), -> 4.35% (decision 5 May 2026, eff. 6 May 2026), unchanged 16 Jun 2026. Since the Reserve Bank Reforms Act 2025 (Cth) commenced the decision-maker is the Monetary Policy Board (not the former single Reserve Bank Board), and votes are published: the May 2026 decision was 8-1 (eight to raise 25bp, one to hold at 4.10%). The RBA does not set the cash rate by legal instrument - it is an operational target implemented through open market operations and the Exchange Settlement Account remuneration corridor (ES balances remunerated at the target). ACCESS QUIRK: rba.gov.au returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers; this value was read from the official page and media release via a plain-text rendering proxy (r.jina.ai) of the same URLs and via search-engine surfacing of rba.gov.au content, not from a third-party aggregator. Next scheduled decision: 11 August 2026.",
"stale": false,
"value": 4.35,
"series": "policy-rate",
"source": {
"url": "https://www.rba.gov.au/statistics/cash-rate/",
"name": "Reserve Bank of Australia, Cash Rate Target statistical table (F1.1) and Monetary Policy Board decision of 5 May 2026 (media release 2026-12, 'Statement by the Monetary Policy Board: Monetary Policy Decision', https://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2026/mr-26-12.html)"
},
"country": "AU",
"disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
"effective_from": "2026-05-06",
"last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
}
}Tags
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