No national public holiday falls in August. 9 August 2028 runs as an ordinary working day across the country outside greater Brisbane, sitting between the mid-winter quiet of July and the arrival of spring the following month on 1 September, in one of the more uninterrupted working stretches of the year for most Australian workplaces.
The Ekka public holiday in greater Brisbane is held on a Wednesday during the Royal Queensland Show each August, one of the few recurring public holidays fixed to this day of the week. Wednesday 9 August 2028 falls on the same weekday as this regional observance, which applies only within greater Brisbane and not to the rest of Queensland.
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.