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Christmas Day 2024

Australia · Wednesday, December 25, 2024 · FM6, Q2 of FY2025

Wed
Weekday 2024
FM6
Fiscal Month
Q2
Fiscal Quarter
187d
To FY2025 Year-End
Country
Australia
Calendar date 2024
2024-12-25 (Wednesday)
Fiscal year
FY2025 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM6 of 12 · Quarter Q2 · printable monthly template
Source
Fair Work Ombudsman

About Christmas Day

Public holiday across Australia.

This page is the 2024-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 Christmas Day page.

2024 weekday and observance

In 2024, Christmas Day falls on Wednesday, December 25. Mid-week holidays reset the work-week rhythm cleanly: two productive days before, two after. Payroll cutoffs that fall in the same week typically slip to Thursday close-of-business.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Wednesday, December 25, 2024. 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 FY2025

For organisations on the Australia fiscal calendar, Christmas Day 2024 sits in fiscal month 6 (FM6), inside quarter Q2 of FY2025. From this date, you have approximately 187 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: Christmas Day 2023 · Christmas Day 2025 · Christmas Day 2026

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Christmas Day 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM6 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 2024 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 December 2024

Cross-references