Australia Day 2025
Australia · Sunday, January 26, 2025 · FM7, Q3 of FY2025
- Country
- Australia
- Calendar date 2025
- 2025-01-26 (Sunday)
- Observed date 2025
- 2025-01-27 (Monday) — Monday after (Commonwealth bank-holiday convention)
- Fiscal year
- FY2025 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM7 of 12 · Quarter Q3 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Fair Work Ombudsman
About Australia Day
National public holiday marking the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet at Port Jackson.
This page is the 2025-specific edition: it shows the actual weekday, the observed date if a weekend rule applies, and the placement of the holiday inside the Australia fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Australia Day page.
2025 weekday and observance
In 2025, Australia Day falls on Sunday, January 26. Falling on a Sunday, the official observance shifts to a weekday under most national rules. Pay date for any payroll run whose payday lands on this date moves to the preceding business day.
Where it lands in FY2025
For organisations on the Australia fiscal calendar, Australia Day 2025 sits in fiscal month 7 (FM7), inside quarter Q3 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 155 days remaining until fiscal year-end on June 30, 2025. That distance matters because year-end close planning typically begins 60 to 90 days out — meaning if FYE is within that window, this holiday already sits inside the close-planning runway and any client-facing or vendor-facing deadlines that touch it should be pre-cleared rather than rescheduled later.
For the same holiday in adjacent fiscal years see: Australia Day 2023 · Australia Day 2024 · Australia Day 2026 · Australia Day 2027
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Australia Day 2025 reduces the working-day count for FM7 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a fiscal month-end, expect downstream impact on accrual timing (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments typically settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when both origin and destination observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of folding observance dates into the close calendar.
If your business operates payroll on a biweekly cadence aligned to the OPM federal schedule, check the 2025 pay period schedule for the pay period containing this date — the payday for that period may shift to the preceding business day.
Other holidays in January 2025
- January 1 — New Year's Day 2025
Cross-references
- Printable January template (FM7) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2025 overview for Australia — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Australia Day page — year-agnostic background.