Victoria Public Holidays 2026
Sources and last-checked date
- Source
- Business Victoria — Victorian public holidays 2026
- Last checked
- 19 September 2026
- Effective period
- 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026
- Data file
- Record
vic-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 (snapshot 2026-06-09) of the live Business Victoria page, because direct automated access to business.vic.gov.au returned HTTP 403. CORRECTIONS: King's Birthday moved from the previously recorded 2 November 2026 (wrong — holiday-calendar.html error) to the correct 8 June 2026. Added Labour Day (9 March), Easter Saturday (4 April) and Melbourne Cup Day (3 November), none of which were previously in values.holidays. Removed the erroneous 'King's Birthday (VIC)' 2 November entry and the ANZAC Day substitute (Victoria has no substitute when ANZAC Day falls on a weekend). The 25 September holiday is officially named 'Friday before the AFL Grand Final' by Business Victoria, not 'AFL Grand Final Eve' (holiday-calendar.html) or 'AFL Grand Final Friday' (australian-public-holidays-2026.html) — closes C-VIC-05 with a third, official name.
Victoria public holidays in 2026
14 entries recorded in our data file for Victoria 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 |
| 9 March 2026 | Monday | Labour 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 |
| 25 September 2026 | Friday | Friday before the AFL Grand Final | restricted |
| 3 November 2026 | Tuesday | Melbourne Cup Day | Statewide |
| 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 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 — Labour Day
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian 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-VIC-01
4 April 2026 — Easter Saturday
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian 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 (VIC tag)
Tracking reference C-VIC-02
3 November 2026 — Melbourne Cup Day
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian 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-VIC-03
8 June 2026 — Queen's Birthday (prose) — DIRECT CONFLICT with King's Birthday (VIC) recorded at 2026-11-02
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian 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 (VIC tag); cooling-off-period-calculator.html
Tracking reference C-VIC-04
25 September 2026 — NAMING CONFLICT: 'AFL Grand Final Eve' vs 'AFL Grand Final Friday'
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian Government public holidays gazette. We are not presenting either version as fact.
Recorded in: holiday-calendar.html (Eve); australian-public-holidays-2026.html (Friday)
Tracking reference C-VIC-05
27 April 2026 — ANZAC Day Substitute
This entry is disputed. Our sources disagree about it, and it is being confirmed against the Victorian 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
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
- Victoria public holidays 2027