January carries two fixed public holidays: New Year's Day on 1 January and Australia Day on 26 January. 22 January 2027 falls inside the 31-day month that both dates bookend, with school holidays and the Australian Open running through the weeks in between. Where either date lands on a weekend, several states shift the public holiday to the following Monday, the same rule applied to Christmas and Boxing Day later in 2027.
A public holiday on a Friday pairs directly with the Saturday and Sunday that follow it, producing one of the two most common three-day-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Friday 22 January 2027 falls on this day of the week, the last working day of its standard Monday-to-Friday week before the weekend begins.
The hours and minutes shown in the countdown to 22 January 2027 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.