Daylight saving remains in effect throughout March in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT, with the clocks not going back until the first Sunday of April. 27 March 2026 still runs on daylight time in those five jurisdictions, one of the last full months of extended evening light before the shift into shorter winter days.
Friday 27 March 2026 is the last working day of the standard Monday-to-Friday week, the fifth and final working day before the weekend begins. A public holiday landing on this day of the week joins directly onto the Saturday and Sunday that follow it, forming a three-day weekend without using any annual leave.
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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