Australia Day 2026
Australia · Monday, January 26, 2026 · FM7, Q3 of FY2026
- Country
- Australia
- Calendar date 2026
- 2026-01-26 (Monday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2026 (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 2026-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.
2026 weekday and observance
In 2026, Australia Day falls on Monday, January 26. Falling on a Monday, this holiday compresses the work week to four days and pushes any month-end activity that would normally close on Monday into the following day. Plan for late-Tuesday banking value dates.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2026 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Monday, January 26, 2026. Treat it as a non-working day in payroll, vendor payment scheduling, and any business-day calculation that drives accruals or settlement.
Where it lands in FY2026
For organisations on the Australia fiscal calendar, Australia Day 2026 sits in fiscal month 7 (FM7), inside quarter Q3 of FY2026. From this date, you have approximately 155 days remaining until fiscal year-end on June 30, 2026. 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 2024 · Australia Day 2025 · Australia Day 2027 ·
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Australia Day 2026 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 2026 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 2026
- January 1 — New Year's Day 2026
Cross-references
- Printable January template (FM7) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2026 overview for Australia — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Australia Day page — year-agnostic background.