Warmer weather returns in earnest across the southern states during November, with the first genuinely hot days of the season arriving ahead of summer's official start on 1 December. The cyclone season across northern Australia begins on 1 November and runs through November 2029 and on to the following April, marking the tropical north's wettest half of the year. The Melbourne Cup runs on the first Tuesday of November every year, a public holiday in metropolitan Melbourne only.
The working-day count for November 2029 subtracts the Melbourne Cup only within metropolitan Melbourne, where it is a public holiday on the first Tuesday of the month. Every other region of the country counts the full run of weekdays across the 30 days of November, including that same Tuesday as an ordinary working day. November sits in the fourth calendar quarter of 2029 as well as the fifth month of the financial year.
November 2029 closes with the spring racing carnival finished and Christmas planning well under way across retail and hospitality. December follows with the two biggest fixed public holidays of the year, Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and the start of the long summer school holidays that run into the following January and February. The cyclone season across northern Australia begins on 1 November and runs through to the following April.