The Royal Queensland Show, known as the Ekka, runs in Brisbane through August every year, bringing a public holiday for the greater Brisbane area on the Wednesday of the show. 24 August 2026 falls inside the same 31-day month as this regional observance, which does not apply outside greater Brisbane and leaves the rest of Queensland working an ordinary day.
The week containing Monday 24 August 2026 is counted from this date under the standard week-numbering convention used on this page, with weeks running Monday to Sunday rather than Sunday to Saturday. This convention affects rostering, payroll cycles and any planning done in weekly blocks across Australian workplaces that pay staff or schedule shifts on a weekly basis.
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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