Warmer weather returns in earnest across the southern states by 8 November 2026, with the first genuinely hot days of the season arriving during November, ahead of summer's official start on 1 December and the cyclone season that runs through the tropical north until April.
Sunday 8 November 2026 is a weekend day under the standard Monday-to-Friday working pattern and does not count toward the working-day total shown above, the last day of the weekend before the working week resumes on Monday morning across most Australian workplaces and schools.
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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