Victoria, Australia public holidays 2026

2026 at a glance

• ANZAC Day falls on Saturday 25 April and no substitute weekday is counted; Boxing Day falls on Saturday 26 December and is observed on Monday 28 December.
• In 2026, public holidays fall on 10 weekdays in Victoria, one fewer than in 2025.

Public holidays in 2026

14 dates are counted as non-working in Victoria in 2026; 10 of them fall on a weekday.

• observed substitute weekday off

Working days and hours by month

Working days are Monday to Friday minus the counted holidays. Hours are shown for a 7.5-hour and an 8-hour working day.

• Jan 20 working days in January, 2 holidays
• Feb 20 working days in February
• Mar 21 working days in March, 1 holiday
• Apr 20 working days in April, 5 holidays
• May 21 working days in May
• Jun 21 working days in June, 1 holiday
• Jul 23 working days in July
• Aug 21 working days in August
• Sep 21 working days in September, 1 holiday
• Oct 22 working days in October
• Nov 20 working days in November, 1 holiday
• Dec 21 working days in December, 3 holidays

Compare with the rest of Australia

Long weekends in 2026

Runs of three or more days off in a row without taking leave.

• 3 days Saturday 24 January 2026 to Monday 26 January 2026
• 3 days Saturday 7 March 2026 to Monday 9 March 2026
• 4 days Friday 3 April 2026 to Monday 6 April 2026
• 3 days Saturday 6 June 2026 to Monday 8 June 2026
• 3 days Friday 25 September 2026 to Sunday 27 September 2026
• 4 days Friday 25 December 2026 to Monday 28 December 2026

Best days to take leave in 2026

The longest single break for each number of leave days, built around a public holiday.

Leave plans for the whole year

Non-overlapping breaks that give the most days off for a given number of leave days.

Try any budget from 1 to 30 days in the leave planner

Countdown

The days to the next holiday appear here when JavaScript is on.

The working days left this month and this year appear here when JavaScript is on.

Count working days between two dates

Calendar and data downloads

The subscription works in Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar. The CSV file also lists the days observed by some.

About public holidays in Victoria

Public holidays in Victoria are appointed by section 6 of the Public Holidays Act 1993. The list is New Year's Day (1 January), Australia Day (26 January), Labour Day (the second Monday in March), Good Friday, the Saturday before Easter Sunday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day (25 April), the King's Birthday (the second Monday in June), the Friday before the Australian Football League Grand Final, Melbourne Cup Day (the first Tuesday in November), Christmas Day (25 December) and Boxing Day (26 December).

The Act sets the additional days for weekends. When New Year's Day is a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday is also a public holiday. When Australia Day is a Saturday or Sunday, the public holiday is the following Monday instead. When Christmas Day is a Saturday, the following Monday is added; when it is a Sunday, the following Tuesday. When Boxing Day is a Saturday, the following Monday is added; when it is a Sunday, the following Tuesday. In 2027 Christmas Day is a Saturday and Boxing Day a Sunday, so Monday 27 December and Tuesday 28 December are public holidays.

Section 6 has no additional day for Anzac Day. In 2027 Anzac Day falls on Sunday 25 April and no weekday replaces it in Victoria, while New South Wales and Western Australia add Monday 26 April. Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday always fall on a weekend, so they do not reduce the number of working days.

The Friday before the AFL Grand Final has no fixed calendar date. It follows the date of the Grand Final, so it changes from year to year. For a year whose Grand Final date is not yet confirmed, this site shows the Friday calculated from the usual timing of the Grand Final and labels it provisional; for 2027 that is Friday 24 September. The day still counts as a non-working day.

Melbourne Cup Day applies across the State with one exception. Under section 8A, a non-metropolitan council may ask the Minister, at least 90 days in advance, to replace Melbourne Cup Day in all or part of its district with another day or two half-days. The Minister may not appoint a Saturday or Sunday. This site counts Melbourne Cup Day for the whole State and does not list the local replacement days.

Section 7 lets the Minister appoint further public holidays or half-holidays by notice in the Government Gazette, and section 8 lets the Minister substitute another day for an appointed holiday, for the whole State or a part of it. Section 9 treats every Victorian public holiday, and every Saturday, as a bank holiday for the purposes of the Bills of Exchange Act 1909 of the Commonwealth.

Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are not in the section 6 list.

Source and last check

Dates are calculated with the python-holidays library 0.108 and checked against the official sources below. Last checked: 15 November 2026.

Sources

• https://www.legislation.vic.gov.au/in-force/acts/public-holidays-act-1993/027

How the counts are made