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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-2026 in 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 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. Read the verification note above before relying on any of them.

DateDayHolidayApplies 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
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

Disputed and unconfirmed entries

Our sources do not agree on the 6 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.

9 March 2026 — Adelaide Cup Day (prose) — DIRECT CONFLICT with 2026-05-11 recorded above

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian 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-SA-01

24 December 2026 — Christmas Eve (from 7pm)

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian 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-SA-02

31 December 2026 — New Year's Eve (from 7pm)

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian 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-SA-03

28 December 2026 — NAMING CONFLICT: 'Proclamation Day' vs 'Boxing Day Substitute'

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.

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

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.

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

This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the South Australian 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

Regional and part-day holidays

We hold no confirmed regional or locality-specific public holiday for South Australia. 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: Christmas Eve (from 7pm) (Part-day); New Year's Eve (from 7pm) (Part-day)

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