School holidays run through January in every state and territory, with Term 1 not starting until the last week of January or the first week of February. 12 January 2029 falls inside this national school break, the longest of the four holiday periods on the Australian school calendar and the busiest month of the year for family travel to caravan parks, coastal towns and the roads that lead to them.
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 12 January 2029 falls on this day of the week, the last working day of its standard Monday-to-Friday week before the weekend begins.
2029 has 365 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.