South Australia Public Holidays 2026
Sources and last-checked date
- Source
- SafeWork SA — Public holidays
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026
- Effective period
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Data file
- Record
sa-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 safework.sa.gov.au page, because direct automated access returned HTTP 403/a bot challenge. CORRECTION: Adelaide Cup Day moved from the previously recorded 11 May 2026 (wrong — holiday-calendar.html error) to the correct 9 March 2026 (second Monday in March). Added Labour Day (5 October) and confirmed both part-day holidays: Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, 7pm to midnight, under the Public Holidays Act 2023. NAMING: SA's official name for 26 December is 'Proclamation Day holiday' (South Australia's actual Proclamation Day is 28 December, but the holiday is observed on 26 December); SA does not use the name 'Boxing Day' as a standalone holiday in 2026 — closes C-SA-04 and C-SA-05 in favour of australian-public-holidays-2026.html's naming, and confirms Easter Sunday is a public holiday in SA since 1 January 2024 (Public Holidays Act 2023).
South Australia public holidays in 2026
15 entries recorded in our data file for South Australia in 2026, each one checked against SafeWork SA — Public 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 |
| 9 March 2026 | Monday | Adelaide Cup 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 |
| 8 June 2026 | Monday | King's Birthday | Statewide |
| 5 October 2026 | Monday | Labour Day | Statewide |
| 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 | Proclamation Day holiday | Statewide |
| 28 December 2026 | Monday | Additional Day (Proclamation Day) | 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 6 entries below. We checked SafeWork SA — Public 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.
9 March 2026 — Adelaide Cup Day (prose) — DIRECT CONFLICT with 2026-05-11 recorded above
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Adelaide Cup Day" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-SA-01
24 December 2026 — Christmas Eve (from 7pm)
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Christmas Eve" and applying to: Part-day.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-SA-02
31 December 2026 — New Year's Eve (from 7pm)
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "New Year's Eve" and applying to: Part-day.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html
Missing from: holiday-calendar.html
Tracking reference C-SA-03
28 December 2026 — NAMING CONFLICT: 'Proclamation Day' vs 'Boxing Day Substitute'
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Additional Day (Proclamation Day)" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: australian-public-holidays-2026.html (Proclamation Day); holiday-calendar.html (Boxing Day Substitute)
Tracking reference C-SA-04
26 December 2026 — Boxing Day
Settled. This date is in the table above, recorded as "Proclamation Day holiday" and applying to: Statewide.
Recorded in: holiday-calendar.html; business-days-calculator.html; cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Missing from: australian-public-holidays-2026.html (SA table lists Proclamation Day instead)
Tracking reference C-SA-05
27 April 2026 — ANZAC Day Substitute
Settled. Our 2026 record for South Australia, 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
Regional and part-day holidays
2 of the entries above are not statewide. South Australia 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.
- 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: Christmas Eve (from 7pm) (Part-day); New Year's Eve (from 7pm) (Part-day)
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
- South Australia public holidays 2027