The cyclone season across northern Australia begins on 1 November and runs through to April. 16 November 2028 falls inside this seasonal window for the tropical north, while the southern states move into the warmer, drier conditions of late spring ahead of summer's official start on 1 December.
A public holiday landing on a Thursday sits one day short of the weekend, and workers commonly take the Friday after it as annual leave to turn a single day off into a four-day break. Thursday 16 November 2028 falls on this day of the week, one working day ahead of Friday and two ahead of the weekend that follows it.
2028 has 366 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.