2027 calendar

2027 opens on a Friday, so New Year's Day itself creates a three-day weekend to start the year, with Term 1 for most states not resuming until late January. Australia Day falls on a Tuesday this year, 26 January, which does not stretch into a long weekend on its own, though plenty of workers bridge the Monday in between to turn it into a four-day break. The Australian Open in Melbourne runs through most of January, overlapping with the tail end of the school holidays and the last of the year's hottest weeks in the southern capitals.

Easter falls in March in 2027, with Good Friday on 26 March and Easter Monday on 29 March, one of the earliest possible dates on the Australian calendar. ANZAC Day on 25 April lands on a Sunday, and several states shift the public holiday to the following Monday when that happens, so it is worth checking your own state's rule before booking anything around that weekend. Daylight saving ends on 4 April in the south-eastern states, a week or so after the Easter break, marking the last of the long evenings before the shift into shorter winter days.

King's Birthday falls later than usual in 2027, landing on 14 June in the states that observe it on the second Monday, close to the middle of the month and well after the end of the financial year on 30 June has come into view. The new financial year begins on 1 July, and tax returns can be lodged from that date through to the 31 October deadline for anyone doing it themselves. Spring brings the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday 2 November, one of the earliest dates the race can fall on, alongside the usual spring racing carnival events through October.

Christmas Day falls on a Saturday and Boxing Day on a Sunday in 2027, which means the public holidays are commonly shifted to the following Monday and Tuesday in most states, turning the close of the year into an extended run of days off rather than a weekend swallowed whole by the holiday. Daylight saving begins on 3 October, so the clocks go forward well before the Melbourne Cup and the spring racing carnival get under way. With 365 days on the calendar, 2027 has no leap day, and Remembrance Day on 11 November falls on a Thursday.