Australian Capital Territory Public Holidays 2026
Sources and last-checked date
- Source
- ACT Government, Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate — ACT Public Holidays 2026
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026
- Effective period
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Data file
- Record
act-2026in our public holiday dataset. Every date below is read from that record at build time.
What we checked, and what we changed: Verified 19 Sep 2026 from the official ACT Government PDF (information correct as of 24 March 2026). CORRECTION: Reconciliation Day moved from the previously recorded 25 May 2026 (wrong — holiday-calendar.html error) to the correct 1 June 2026 — closes C-ACT-01 in favour of australian-public-holidays-2026.html. Added Labour Day (5 October, first Monday in October) and the Bank Holiday (3 August, first Monday in August; restricted scope — 'Bank holidays do not apply to everyone', per the Holidays Act 1958). Naming confirmed as 'King's Birthday', not 'Queen's Birthday' — closes C-NAT-05 for ACT.
Australian Capital Territory public holidays in 2026
16 entries recorded in our data file for Australian Capital Territory in 2026, each one checked against ACT Government, Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate — ACT Public Holidays 2026 on 19 September 2026. Not every entry applies to everyone — read the "Applies to" column before you rely on one.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Applies to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 January 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Day | Statewide |
| 26 January 2026 | Monday | Australia Day | Statewide |
| 9 March 2026 | Monday | Canberra Day | Statewide |
| 3 April 2026 | Friday | Good Friday | Statewide |
| 4 April 2026 | Saturday | Easter Saturday | Statewide |
| 5 April 2026 | Sunday | Easter Sunday | Statewide |
| 6 April 2026 | Monday | Easter Monday | Statewide |
| 25 April 2026 | Saturday | ANZAC Day | Statewide |
| 27 April 2026 | Monday | Additional Day (ANZAC Day) | Statewide |
| 1 June 2026 | Monday | Reconciliation Day | Statewide |
| 8 June 2026 | Monday | King's Birthday | Statewide |
| 3 August 2026 | Monday | Bank Holiday | Restricted — not everyone First Monday in August. Bank holidays do not apply to everyone; check the relevant Enterprise Agreement or Award. |
| 5 October 2026 | Monday | Labour Day | Statewide |
| 25 December 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day | Statewide |
| 26 December 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day | Statewide |
| 28 December 2026 | Monday | Additional Day (Boxing Day) | Statewide |
Where our own pages disagreed, and what we found
Before this record was checked, pages on this site contradicted each other about the 4 entries below. We checked ACT Government, Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate — ACT Public Holidays 2026 on 19 September 2026 and recorded the outcome against each one. We are leaving the disagreement on the page rather than quietly deleting it, so you can see what changed and why.
1 June 2026 — Reconciliation Day (prose) — DIRECT CONFLICT with 2026-05-25 recorded above
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Reconciliation Day" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-ACT-01
5 April 2026 — Easter Sunday
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Easter Sunday" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: holiday-calendar.html; cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Missing from: australian-public-holidays-2026.html; business-days-calculator.html
Tracking reference C-NAT-01
27 April 2026 — ANZAC Day Substitute
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Additional Day (ANZAC Day)" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: holiday-calendar.html
Missing from: australian-public-holidays-2026.html; business-days-calculator.html; cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Tracking reference C-NAT-02
8 June 2026 — NAMING CONFLICT: 'King's Birthday' vs 'Queen's Birthday'
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "King's Birthday" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: holiday-calendar.html (King's); australian-public-holidays-2026.html (Queen's)
Tracking reference C-NAT-05
Regional and part-day holidays
1 of the entries above is not statewide. Australian Capital Territory has days that apply only in one area, only for part of a day, or only to some employers. Our calculators count statewide holidays only, so if one of these applies to you, add it yourself.
- 3 August 2026 — Bank Holiday
Restricted — not everyoneFirst Monday in August. Bank holidays do not apply to everyone; check the relevant Enterprise Agreement or Award.
Calculators that use this data
These tools read the same public holiday data. If a date on this page is wrong, their answers are wrong too — which is exactly why the verification note sits at the top of this page rather than the bottom.
- Business Days Calculator — counts working days between two dates and skips public holidays
- Cooling-Off Period Calculator — counts a cooling-off deadline in business days
- Holiday Calendar — shows the next public holiday for a chosen state
- Long Service Leave Calculator — applies rules that differ by state and territory
- Australian Public Holidays 2026 — the national summary page for the same year
Other years
- 2026 — you are reading this page
- Australian Capital Territory public holidays 2027