New South Wales Public Holidays 2027

New South Wales's public holiday rules, applied to 2027

New South Wales adds Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday, the NSW Bank Holiday on the first Monday of August and Labour Day in October. In 2027 those days are Easter Saturday on Saturday, March 27, Easter Sunday on Sunday, March 28, Bank Holiday on Monday, August 2, and Labour Day on Monday, October 4.

25 April is a Sunday in 2027. The NSW Government says Anzac Day "is always recognised and observed on the 25 April every year", and its table lists Monday, April 26 as an Additional Day, so both dates are public holidays.

New South Wales adds a weekday for a weekend year-end holiday rather than replacing the weekend date. The rule is stated in the NSW Government's statement that 'there is to be an additional public holiday on the following Monday or Tuesday'. Christmas Day falls on a Saturday and stays a public holiday, with Monday, December 27 added; Boxing Day falls on a Sunday and stays a public holiday, with Tuesday, December 28 added.

The NSW Bank Holiday falls on Monday, August 2 in 2027. The NSW Government states that it 'is not a declared public holiday': retail bank branches and certain financial institutions are required to remain closed that day unless exempt, which is why this page counts it and a general workplace count would not.

2027 in New South Wales: the same total by a different route

A year's working days are its weekdays minus the holidays that land on them, and both halves move. The weekday supply depends only on the year's length and the weekday it starts on; the holiday half depends on where each fixed date falls that year. 2027 runs 365 days, 52 whole weeks and one day over. It opens and closes on a Friday, so the spare day is a weekday and the year holds 261 of them.

Ten holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays (five more land on a weekend and cost nothing), so New South Wales has 251 working days in 2027. That matches 2026 exactly, with the same weekday supply and the same number of weekday holidays. 2028 falls to 250.

Weekend public holidays in 2027, and what New South Wales does with each

A public holiday on a Saturday or Sunday removes no working day; what changes the count is whether New South Wales's law adds a weekday for it or puts one in its place. In New South Wales in 2027:

• ANZAC Day falls on Sunday, April 25 and stays a public holiday; Monday, April 26 is added on top, so the weekend date takes no working day and the weekday does.
• Christmas Day falls on Saturday, December 25 and stays a public holiday; Monday, December 27 is added on top, so the weekend date takes no working day and the weekday does.
• Boxing Day falls on Sunday, December 26 and stays a public holiday; Tuesday, December 28 is added on top, so the weekend date takes no working day and the weekday does.

Only the weekday entries change the count; a public holiday on a Saturday or Sunday takes no working day from it.

What New South Wales's own days cost in 2027

A holiday on New South Wales's list takes a working day out of the count only when it lands on a weekday that is not also a holiday on the national Australian set, and a holiday on the national Australian set that is not on New South Wales's list puts one back only when it lands on a weekday. In 2027, New South Wales's additions on a weekday are Anzac Day (additional) on Monday, April 26, Bank Holiday on Monday, August 2, and Labour Day on Monday, October 4, while Easter Saturday on Saturday, March 27 and Easter Sunday on Sunday, March 28 fall on a weekend and change nothing.

The net effect is three fewer working days than the national Australian set: 251 against 254.

Where the fixed-date holidays land in 2027

A holiday tied to a calendar date moves one weekday later each year, so the week it breaks changes every year while its date stays put. Against 2026, each of these has moved one weekday on:

• New Year's Day is a Friday in 2027, after a Thursday in 2026, so on this page's count the weekend after it becomes three days off.
• Australia Day is a Tuesday in 2027, after a Monday in 2026, which strands Monday, January 25 between the weekend and the holiday on this page's count.
• ANZAC Day is a Sunday in 2027, after a Saturday in 2026, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on this page's count; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.
• Christmas Day is a Saturday in 2027, after a Friday in 2026, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on this page's count; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.
• Boxing Day is a Sunday in 2027, after a Saturday in 2026, a weekend day, so the date itself takes no working day on this page's count; the weekend rules above decide whether a weekday is given for it.

Long weekends and four-day breaks in New South Wales, 2027

A weekday holiday next to a weekend turns two days off into three; two closures side by side, or one on each side of a weekend, make four or more. That is arithmetic on the dates, so the list moves every year even when the holidays do not. On this page's count, New South Wales has seven such breaks in 2027:

• Friday, January 1 to Sunday, January 3: three days, for New Year's Day.
• Friday, March 26 to Monday, March 29: four days, for Good Friday and Easter Monday.
• Saturday, April 24 to Monday, April 26: three days, for Anzac Day (additional).
• Saturday, June 12 to Monday, June 14: three days, for King's Birthday.
• Saturday, July 31 to Monday, August 2: three days, for Bank Holiday.
• Saturday, October 2 to Monday, October 4: three days, for Labour Day.
• Saturday, December 25 to Tuesday, December 28: four days, for Christmas Day (additional) and Boxing Day (additional).

Stranded working days in 2027

A holiday on a Tuesday or a Thursday leaves one working day stranded between it and the weekend. In 2027 New South Wales has one: Monday, January 25, next to Australia Day. It is a full working day on this page's count even though a day off sits on either side, so a deadline that lands on it is not pushed anywhere.

New South Wales month by month, 2027

A month's working days are its weekdays less the holidays on them, so a month with no weekday holiday is set entirely by how its weekdays fall, and every holiday that lands midweek takes one day off the month it sits in.

The third column counts the same months on the national Australian set, so the gap between the two columns is exactly what New South Wales's own calendar changes.

Where New South Wales counts longest without a break in 2027

The longest run of working days with no weekday holiday inside it depends on how far apart consecutive closures sit, so it moves whenever one fixed-date holiday changes weekday. In 2027 it runs from Tuesday, October 5 to Friday, December 24 in the second half of the year: 59 working days, 11 full working weeks and four days.

The first working day of 2027 on this count is Monday, January 4, after New Year's Day. The last is Friday, December 31, which is the latest date a count of working days can end on inside 2027.

Which calendar the 2027 count uses

The count uses New South Wales's public holidays plus its Bank Holiday on the first Monday of August, Monday, August 2 in 2027, because it counts the days banks are open. The NSW Government states that the Bank Holiday is not a declared public holiday, so a count of general workplace days in 2027 is one working day longer than this one.