The Australian Open runs in Melbourne throughout January, and the Big Bash cricket season plays out across the same weeks. 26 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.
A public holiday landing on a Monday produces a three-day weekend together with the preceding Saturday and Sunday, one of the two most common long-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Monday 26 January 2026 falls on this day of the week, at the start of a standard five-day working stretch that runs through to Friday of the same week.
The hours and minutes shown in the countdown to 26 January 2026 are calculated against the clock and time zone set on the device displaying this page, and the countdown reaches zero at midnight local to that device. Two people in different time zones will see slightly different figures at the exact same moment, each reflecting their own local midnight.
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