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 still need to confirm: 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. Read the verification note above before relying on any of them.
| 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 |
| 10 July 2026 | Friday | Tennant Creek Show Day | regional |
| 17 July 2026 | Friday | Katherine Show Day | regional |
| 24 July 2026 | Friday | Darwin Show Day | regional |
| 3 August 2026 | Monday | Picnic Day | Statewide |
| 14 August 2026 | Friday | Borroloola Show Day | regional |
| 24 December 2026 | Thursday | Christmas Eve | Part-day |
| 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 |
Disputed and unconfirmed entries
Our sources do not agree on the 5 entries below, so they are not in the table above. We are showing the disagreement rather than picking a winner, because picking one without checking the gazette would be a guess dressed up as an answer.
4 May 2026 — May Day
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Northern Territory Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-NT-01
8 June 2026 — Queen's Birthday
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Northern Territory Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
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
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Northern Territory Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
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
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Northern Territory Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
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
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Northern Territory Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
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
We hold no confirmed regional or locality-specific public holiday for Northern Territory. Regional show days and part-day holidays are real and they change the answer for the people they apply to, so we would rather say we do not have them than publish a guess.
Unconfirmed candidates, listed in the disputed 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