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Is 27 January a public holiday?

No Wednesday 27 January 2027 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Australia Day on Tue 26 Jan (every state and territory), and Royal Hobart Regatta on Mon 8 Feb (parts of TAS).

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 27 January looks like in every published year.

  1. Monday 27 January 2025 Public holiday

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

  2. Tuesday 27 January 2026 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

  3. Wednesday 27 January 2027 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

  4. Thursday 27 January 2028 Working day

    No public holiday in any state or territory.

The holidays that fall on 27 January

  • Australia Day

    Australia Day marks 26 January 1788, the day Captain Arthur Phillip raised the British flag at Sydney Cove and the colony of New South Wales was formally established. Colonial anniversaries were kept in Sydney from the early 1800s, but the states used different names and dates well into the twentieth century. It was only in 1935 that all states agreed on the name Australia Day, and only from 1994 that every state observed the public holiday on 26 January itself rather than on the nearest Monday. The date is also a day of mourning and protest for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, who mark it as Invasion Day or Survival Day. That debate has been running for decades and shows no sign of settling; this site only records when the holiday falls, not whether it should.

    More about Australia Day

January in the public holiday calendar

January opens with New Year's Day everywhere and closes with Australia Day on the 26th, and in between there is nothing: the only January dates that are public holidays anywhere are the 1st, the 26th, and the Mondays those two move to when they land on a weekend. Tasmania's Devonport Cup, in the first week of the month, is the single regional exception. For most of the country January is the tail of the Christmas break rather than a month of its own holidays, and the Australia Day long weekend is the last one before Easter for NSW, Queensland and the Northern Territory.

How public holidays are decided, and what you are owed

27 January FAQ

Is 27 January a public holiday in 2025?

Monday 27 January 2025 is Australia Day (observed) in NSW, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, NT and ACT and Australia Day (additional day) in VIC. It is a normal working day everywhere else.

Is 27 January a public holiday in 2026?

Tuesday 27 January 2026 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Australia Day on Mon 26 Jan (every state and territory), and Royal Hobart Regatta on Mon 9 Feb (parts of TAS).

Is 27 January a public holiday in 2027?

Wednesday 27 January 2027 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Australia Day on Tue 26 Jan (every state and territory), and Royal Hobart Regatta on Mon 8 Feb (parts of TAS).

Is 27 January a public holiday in 2028?

Thursday 27 January 2028 is not a public holiday anywhere in Australia. The nearest public holidays are Australia Day on Wed 26 Jan (every state and territory), and Royal Hobart Regatta on Mon 14 Feb (parts of TAS).

Looking for the whole year? Every 2027 public holiday by state