The Australian Open runs in Melbourne throughout January, and the Big Bash cricket season plays out across the same weeks. 30 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 on a Friday pairs directly with the Saturday and Sunday that follow it, producing one of the two most common three-day-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Friday 30 January 2026 falls on this day of the week, the last working day of its standard Monday-to-Friday week before the weekend begins.
2026 has 365 days on the calendar. Leap years add a single extra day to February, giving those years 366 days instead of 365 and shifting the day-of-year number for every date from March onward by one compared with an ordinary year. This is the only irregularity in the length of the Australian calendar year.
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