Northern Territory Public Holidays 2026
Sources and last-checked date
- Source
- Northern Territory Government — NT public and regional holidays
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026
- Effective period
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Data file
- Record
nt-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 via Wayback Machine archive of the live nt.gov.au page, because direct automated access returned HTTP 403/a bot challenge. CORRECTIONS: King's Birthday confirmed present statewide on 8 June 2026 (holiday-calendar.html had omitted NT from this date entirely) — closes C-NT-02. Added May Day (4 May, closes C-NT-01), Easter Saturday (4 April, closes C-NT-03), both part-day holidays (Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, 7pm to midnight) and all 5 regional show days with real dates: Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Darwin and Borroloola — closes C-NT-04. CONFIRMED ABSENT: no ANZAC Day substitute when 25 April falls on a Saturday.
Northern Territory public holidays in 2026
20 entries recorded in our data file for Northern Territory in 2026, each one checked against Northern Territory Government — NT public and regional holidays 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 |
| 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 |
| 4 May 2026 | Monday | May Day | Statewide |
| 8 June 2026 | Monday | King's Birthday | Statewide |
| 3 July 2026 | Friday | Alice Springs Show Day | Regional — Alice Springs |
| 10 July 2026 | Friday | Tennant Creek Show Day | Regional — Tennant Creek |
| 17 July 2026 | Friday | Katherine Show Day | Regional — Katherine |
| 24 July 2026 | Friday | Darwin Show Day | Regional — Darwin |
| 3 August 2026 | Monday | Picnic Day | Statewide |
| 14 August 2026 | Friday | Borroloola Show Day | Regional — Borroloola |
| 24 December 2026 | Thursday | Christmas Eve | Part-day Part-day public holiday, 7pm to midnight. |
| 25 December 2026 | Friday | Christmas Day | Statewide |
| 26 December 2026 | Saturday | Boxing Day | Statewide |
| 28 December 2026 | Monday | Boxing Day (additional) | Statewide |
| 31 December 2026 | Thursday | New Year's Eve | Part-day Part-day public holiday, 7pm to midnight. |
Where our own pages disagreed, and what we found
Before this record was checked, pages on this site contradicted each other about the 5 entries below. We checked Northern Territory Government — NT public and regional holidays 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.
4 May 2026 — May Day
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "May Day" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-NT-01
8 June 2026 — Queen's Birthday
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "King's Birthday" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html; business-days-calculator.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html (NT is not tagged on the 8 June record); cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Tracking reference C-NT-02
4 April 2026 — Easter Saturday
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Easter Saturday" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html; business-days-calculator.html; cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html (NT tag)
Tracking reference C-NT-03
27 April 2026 — ANZAC Day Substitute
Settled. Our 2026 record for Northern Territory, checked on 19 September 2026, does not carry this date — so it is not in the table above.
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
No date exists in any source we hold — Darwin Show Day, Katherine Show Day, Tennant Creek Show Day, Alice Springs Show Day, Borroloola Show Day and Alice Springs Picnic Day
Partly settled. No single date belongs to this item. Our 2026 record now carries 5 regional entries for Northern Territory, listed under "Regional and part-day holidays" below. Check Northern Territory Government — NT public and regional holidays before relying on that list being complete.
Recorded in: no source we hold carries a date for this.
Missing from: all in-repo sources
Tracking reference C-NT-04
Regional and part-day holidays
7 of the entries above are not statewide. Northern 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 July 2026 — Alice Springs Show Day
Regional — Alice Springs - 10 July 2026 — Tennant Creek Show Day
Regional — Tennant Creek - 17 July 2026 — Katherine Show Day
Regional — Katherine - 24 July 2026 — Darwin Show Day
Regional — Darwin - 14 August 2026 — Borroloola Show Day
Regional — Borroloola - 24 December 2026 — Christmas Eve
Part-dayPart-day public holiday, 7pm to midnight. - 31 December 2026 — New Year's Eve
Part-dayPart-day public holiday, 7pm to midnight.
Entries our own pages disagreed about, dealt with in the section above: Darwin Show Day, Katherine Show Day, Tennant Creek Show Day, Alice Springs Show Day, Borroloola Show Day and Alice Springs Picnic Day (Regional — locality not yet identified)
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
- Northern Territory public holidays 2027