Autumn begins on 1 March, and by 26 March 2029 the southern states see shorter days and cooler mornings settling in. The northern wet season continues through March, with cyclone activity still active ahead of its April end, while the south moves out of its summer bushfire peak as the season turns over into the cooler months.
A public holiday landing on a Monday produces a three-day weekend together with the preceding Saturday and Sunday, one of the two most common long-weekend patterns on the Australian calendar. Monday 26 March 2029 falls on this day of the week, at the start of a standard five-day working stretch that runs through to Friday of the same week.
The hours and minutes shown in the countdown to 26 March 2029 are calculated against the clock and time zone set on the device displaying this page, and the countdown reaches zero at midnight local to that device. Two people in different time zones will see slightly different figures at the exact same moment, each reflecting their own local midnight.