August is the last full month of winter. By 24 August 2029, wattle, the national floral emblem, is in bloom across much of the country, one of the clearest seasonal markers that spring is approaching in the southern states, even while the far south holds onto its coldest overnight temperatures of the year for a few more weeks.
Traffic volumes, flight bookings and getaway trips peak on Friday afternoons across Australian cities as the working week ends. Friday 24 August 2029 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.
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.