Australia Public Holidays 2025
Australia has 10 national public holidays in 2025, starting with New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and ending with Boxing Day on 26 December 2025. Five separate long weekends of three days or more fall in 2025 without anyone taking leave, starting with 25 January 2025.
2025 has ended. This page is kept as a record of what the calendar was. For dates you can still plan around, see Australia in 2026 or Australia in 2027.
Looking back: Australia observed ten national public holidays in 2025, the same number as in 2026. Two fell on a Saturday or Sunday, against three in 2026. The calendar produced five long weekends that year, against four in 2026.
| Holiday | Date | Weekday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Year's Day | Wednesday | Public holiday | |
| Australia Day | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Good Friday | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Holy SaturdayEaster Saturday | SaturdayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Easter Sunday | SundayWeekend | Public holiday | |
| Easter Monday | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Anzac Day | Friday | Public holiday | |
| Sovereign's BirthdayThe Act sets the holiday but leaves the date to each state and territory. The second Monday in June applies in most of Australia. Western Australia observes it in late September and Queensland in early October, and the date there is fixed by annual proclamation. | Monday | Public holiday | |
| Christmas Day | Thursday | Public holiday | |
| Boxing Day | Friday | Public holiday |
- Status
- Set in lawThe calendar is set in standing law rather than announced year by year, so 2025 needs no separate publication.
- Last verified
- The newest check behind a Australia entry, against the source named in the corrections log.
- Source
- date-holidays open dataset (ISC and CC BY 3.0), with 1 correction applied to Australia. See what we changed.Always confirm official dates with a local authority before booking travel. How these calendars are built. Spotted an error? Tell us and we will check it.
April is the densest month for holidays, which tends to shape travel and shopping patterns. Two of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2025, which is worth checking if you are counting on days off from work. Use the table below to see each 2025 holiday in Australia, when it happens and which day of the week it lands on. The list is the national one, and Australia also has sub-national calendars that differ from it, so check the note above the table before you rely on a single date.
Frequently asked questions
How many public holidays does Australia have in 2025?
Australia has 10 national public holidays in 2025. The first is New Year's Day on 1 January 2025 and the last is Boxing Day on 26 December 2025.
What is the first public holiday of 2025 in Australia?
The first public holiday of 2025 is New Year's Day, which falls on 1 January 2025.
When is New Year celebrated in Australia in 2025?
In 2025, New Year's Day in Australia is on 1 January 2025.
Are regional holidays included for Australia?
No. This calendar lists national public holidays only, so it stays consistent across countries. Holidays that apply to just part of Australia are listed separately on the Australia holiday hub, together with the states and territories that observe them.
Do the Australia holiday dates change from 2025 to the next year?
Some of them do. Five of the 10 holidays in 2025 sit on a moving rule (linked to easter and set weekday of the month), so their date has to be recalculated for every year. The rest keep the same calendar date and only change weekday. Moving ones this year include Good Friday on 18 April 2025, Holy Saturday on 19 April 2025 and Easter Sunday on 20 April 2025, plus 2 more.
How far ahead is the Australia calendar actually fixed?
Through 2027. The holidays are set in law rather than announced year by year, so the dates repeat predictably. What can still change is a law amendment, a one-off holiday declared for a national event, and the exact day of any holiday on the Islamic calendar, which is confirmed by moon sighting. This table also applies 1 correction to the underlying open dataset, each checked against the legislation. The full list with sources is on the Australia holiday hub.
Which Australia holidays are regional, and which move?
The table above is the national calendar for 2025. Some holidays keep the same date every year while others are tied to Easter, to a lunar calendar or to a named weekday, and some parts of the country add their own days off. The Australia holiday hub breaks that down: which holidays are fixed, which move and why, and which ones are observed in certain regions only. To compare Australia with other countries in the same year, see the 2025 worldwide overview.
Other years for Australia
Planning further ahead or looking back? Compare the Australia public holiday calendar across years:
Plan around the Australia 2025 calendar
Knowing the dates is half the question. The other half is what they add up to: which of them create a long weekend on their own, and where a single day of leave turns a holiday into a four day break. That is on the Australia long weekends page for 2025, alongside how many working days 2025 actually has once weekends and holidays come out. The same figures are available as JSON, and the dates as a calendar file.