Mother's Day is observed on the second Sunday of May every year, shaping retail and hospitality trade for the week either side of it. 12 May 2028 falls inside the same 31-day month, ten months into the financial year that began the previous July and two months short of its 30 June close.
Traffic volumes, flight bookings and getaway trips peak on Friday afternoons across Australian cities as the working week ends. Friday 12 May 2028 falls on this day of the week, at the close of its standard five-day working stretch, marking the start of the weekend for the standard Monday-to-Friday workforce.
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.