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Good Friday 2024

Australia · Thursday, April 18, 2024 · FM10, Q4 of FY2024

Thu
Weekday 2024
FM10
Fiscal Month
Q4
Fiscal Quarter
73d
To FY2024 Year-End
Country
Australia
Calendar date 2024
2024-04-18 (Thursday)
Fiscal year
FY2024 (open year)
Fiscal month / quarter
FM10 of 12 · Quarter Q4 · printable monthly template
Source
Fair Work Ombudsman

About Good Friday

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 Good Friday page.

2024 weekday and observance

In 2024, Good Friday falls on Thursday, April 18. A Thursday holiday is functionally a long weekend: many staff take the Friday as a personal day, so plan critical close milestones earlier in the week.

No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Thursday, April 18, 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 FY2024

For organisations on the Australia fiscal calendar, Good Friday 2024 sits in fiscal month 10 (FM10), inside quarter Q4 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 73 days remaining until fiscal year-end on June 30, 2024. 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: Good Friday 2023 · Good Friday 2025 · Good Friday 2026

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Good Friday 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM10 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 April 2024

Cross-references