Waitangi Day 2024
New Zealand · Tuesday, February 6, 2024 · FM8, Q3 of FY2024
- Country
- New Zealand
- Calendar date 2024
- 2024-02-06 (Tuesday)
- Fiscal year
- FY2024 (open year)
- Fiscal month / quarter
- FM8 of 12 · Quarter Q3 · printable monthly template
- Source
- Employment New Zealand
About Waitangi Day
National day commemorating the 1840 signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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 New Zealand fiscal year that contains it. For the canonical, year-agnostic overview see the main Waitangi Day page.
2024 weekday and observance
In 2024, Waitangi Day falls on Tuesday, February 6. A Tuesday holiday is the most disruptive weekday for payroll and AP because it splits the work week. Many teams add an unscheduled day off on Monday to bridge the gap, effectively making it a four-day weekend.
No weekend-shift rule applies in 2024 because the holiday falls on a regular weekday. Both the calendar date and the observed date are Tuesday, February 6, 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 New Zealand fiscal calendar, Waitangi Day 2024 sits in fiscal month 8 (FM8), inside quarter Q3 of FY2024. From this date, you have approximately 145 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: Waitangi Day 2023 · Waitangi Day 2025 · Waitangi Day 2026
Operational impact for finance teams
For finance and operations teams, Waitangi Day 2024 reduces the working-day count for FM8 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.
Cross-references
- Printable February template (FM8) — see this holiday highlighted in the calendar grid.
- Q3 quarterly template — context inside the three-month fiscal quarter.
- FY2024 overview for New Zealand — full year-at-a-glance.
- Main Waitangi Day page — year-agnostic background.