Cyclone activity across northern Australia continues through February, part of a season that runs from November to April, while bushfire risk in the south stays at its summer peak. 21 February 2026 sits inside both seasonal windows, two months before daylight saving ends in the south-eastern states and autumn officially begins across the country on 1 March.
A public holiday that falls on a Saturday sits inside the weekend rather than beside it, so it does not automatically create a substitute day off during the working week; whether one applies depends on the specific holiday and the state. Saturday 21 February 2026 falls on this day of the week, inside the weekend itself.
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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