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Is 1 May a public holiday?

No Saturday 1 May 2027 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Anzac Day (observed) / Anzac Day (additional day) on Mon 26 Apr (QLD, SA, WA, NT and ACT), and Labour Day / May Day on Mon 3 May (QLD and NT).

Public holidays are set state by state, so the same date can be a day off in one state and a normal Monday in the next. Here is what 1 May looks like in every published year.

  1. Thursday 1 May 2025 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

  2. Friday 1 May 2026 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

  3. Saturday 1 May 2027 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

  4. Monday 1 May 2028 Public holiday

    • Labour Day
      QLD
    • May Day
      NT

    A Monday, so it makes a three-day weekend in QLD and NT. The long weekend planner shows what a few days of leave either side would add.

The holidays that fall on 1 May

  • Labour Day

    Labour Day commemorates the eight-hour working day, won by Melbourne stonemasons in April 1856 after a march from the University of Melbourne site to Parliament House. Sydney stonemasons had secured similar terms the year before. "Eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" became the slogan of the trade union movement, and the anniversary was celebrated with processions long before it became a public holiday. Tasmania still calls its holiday Eight Hours Day. Because each colony marked its own anniversary, Labour Day never settled on a single national date, and the differences have only grown as states shuffled holidays to spread them through the year.

    More about Labour Day

May in the public holiday calendar

May belongs to Queensland and the Northern Territory, which take Labour Day and May Day respectively on the first Monday. The ACT's Reconciliation Day falls on the first Monday on or after 27 May, and Tasmania's AGFEST holiday in Circular Head is in the first week. For the other five jurisdictions May is a working month, though a very late Easter can push Anzac Day substitutions or Easter Monday itself to the start of it.

How public holidays are decided, and what you are owed

1 May FAQ

Is 1 May a public holiday in 2025?

Thursday 1 May 2025 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Anzac Day on Fri 25 Apr (every state and territory), and AGFEST on Fri 2 May (parts of TAS).

Is 1 May a public holiday in 2026?

Friday 1 May 2026 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Anzac Day (additional day) on Mon 27 Apr (WA and ACT), and Labour Day / May Day on Mon 4 May (QLD and NT).

Is 1 May a public holiday in 2027?

Saturday 1 May 2027 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Anzac Day (observed) / Anzac Day (additional day) on Mon 26 Apr (QLD, SA, WA, NT and ACT), and Labour Day / May Day on Mon 3 May (QLD and NT).

Is 1 May a public holiday in 2028?

Monday 1 May 2028 is Labour Day in QLD and May Day in NT. It is a normal working day everywhere else.

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