No fixed national public holiday falls in February. School Term 1 is in full session in every state by 26 February 2030, and the 28 days of February in 2030 run as an unbroken stretch of ordinary working and school days unless a state has declared a separate regional holiday of its own for a local event or observance.
The Melbourne Cup is held on the first Tuesday of November every year, a public holiday in metropolitan Melbourne. Tuesday 26 February 2030 falls on this day of the week, the same weekday the race runs on every year regardless of the date it lands on, drawing national attention well beyond Victoria's own borders.
2030 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.