The NRL season opens in the first week of March, and the AFL season follows in the second half of the month. 4 March 2026 falls inside the opening rounds of both national football codes, at the same point on the calendar where Melbourne's Moomba festival runs across the Victorian Labour Day long weekend each year.
A public holiday landing on a Wednesday sits in the middle of its working week rather than beside a weekend, so it does not create a long weekend on its own. Wednesday 4 March 2026 falls on this day of the week, at the working week's midpoint, three working days deep into the week.
The hours and minutes shown in the countdown to 4 March 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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