The Australian Open runs in Melbourne throughout January, and the Big Bash cricket season plays out across the same weeks. 20 January 2026 sits inside this national sporting calendar, alongside the height of the wet season across the tropical north and the peak of the summer beach season in the southern capital cities, before both the cricket and tennis seasons wind down in February.
Tuesday 20 January 2026 carries no recurring public holiday of its own outside the first Tuesday of November, when the Melbourne Cup applies in metropolitan Melbourne. On every other date, this day of the week runs as a standard working day across the country, counted fully in the working-day total above.
The countdown to 20 January 2026 is measured from today's date and updates once every day, since the number of days, hours and minutes remaining changes continuously as the current date moves closer to it. Each visit to this page recalculates the figure fresh from the current moment, rather than storing a fixed number that would go stale over time.
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