Queensland Public Holidays 2026
Sources and last-checked date
- Source
- Queensland Government — Public holidays
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026
- Effective period
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Data file
- Record
qld-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 directly from the live qld.gov.au public holidays table (2026-2029 columns). CORRECTIONS: King's Birthday moved from the previously recorded 25 September 2026 (wrong — holiday-calendar.html error) to the correct 5 October 2026 (first Monday in October). Added Labour Day (4 May, first Monday in May), Easter Saturday (4 April), and the Royal Queensland Show/Ekka (12 August, Brisbane only). Also newly found: a part-day Christmas Eve holiday (6pm-midnight, 24 December) not previously recorded anywhere in the repo. Removed the erroneous ANZAC Day substitute (Queensland has no substitute when 25 April falls on a Saturday). Regional show days: the qld.gov.au 'Show holiday dates' page lists 100+ localities with individual dates; a representative sample of 8 major regional centres (Toowoomba, Gympie, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns, Gladstone, Gold Coast) is captured here. The complete locality list was not transcribed in full — see source_url for every remaining district.
Queensland public holidays in 2026
22 entries recorded in our data file for Queensland 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 |
| 27 March 2026 | Friday | Toowoomba Royal Agricultural Show | regional |
| 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 | Labour Day | Statewide |
| 15 May 2026 | Friday | Gympie Annual Show | regional |
| 11 June 2026 | Thursday | Rockhampton Agricultural Show | regional |
| 18 June 2026 | Thursday | Mackay Agricultural Show | regional |
| 6 July 2026 | Monday | Townsville Annual Show | regional |
| 17 July 2026 | Friday | Cairns Annual Show | regional |
| 10 August 2026 | Monday | Royal Queensland Show | regional |
| 12 August 2026 | Wednesday | Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) | regional |
| 28 August 2026 | Friday | Gold Coast Show | regional |
| 5 October 2026 | Monday | King's Birthday | Statewide |
| 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 | Additional Day (Boxing Day) | Statewide |
Disputed and unconfirmed entries
Our sources do not agree on the 7 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 — Labour Day
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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-QLD-01
12 August 2026 — Royal Queensland Show (Ekka)
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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-QLD-02
5 October 2026 — Queen's Birthday (prose) — DIRECT CONFLICT with King's Birthday (QLD) recorded at 2026-09-25
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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-QLD-03
4 April 2026 — Easter Saturday
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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 (QLD tag)
Tracking reference C-QLD-05
5 April 2026 — Easter Sunday
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
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
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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 — Regional show days outside Brisbane (Toowoomba, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay, Gold Coast and every other QLD show locality)
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Queensland 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-QLD-04
Regional and part-day holidays
We hold no confirmed regional or locality-specific public holiday for Queensland. 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: Royal Queensland Show (Ekka) (Regional — Brisbane); Regional show days outside Brisbane (Toowoomba, Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton, Mackay, Gold Coast and every other QLD show locality) (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
- Queensland public holidays 2027