Northern Territory Business Day Calculator

Northern Territory's own holidays, year by year

A holiday defined by a rule (the first Monday of a month, the Friday before Easter) keeps its weekday and moves its date; one defined by a date keeps its date and moves its weekday. The table gives Northern Territory's own days for each year:

How Northern Territory's rules play out across 2026 to 2028

The Northern Territory adds Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, May Day on the first Monday of May and Picnic Day on the first Monday of August, all fixed by Schedule 2. Picnic Day, the first Monday of August, falls on Monday, August 3, 2026, Monday, August 2, 2027, and Monday, August 7, 2028, and May Day on Monday, May 4, 2026, Monday, May 3, 2027, and Monday, May 1, 2028.

Anzac Day shows how much the weekend rules matter, year by year:

25 April is a Saturday in 2026. The Public Holidays Act 1981 substitutes a Monday only for a Sunday Anzac Day, so a Saturday produces no extra day and the holiday costs no working day.

25 April is a Sunday in 2027, and the Public Holidays Act 1981 substitutes the Monday for a Sunday Anzac Day ("25 April (Anzac Day) or, if that day falls on a Sunday, the following Monday"), so Monday, April 26 is the public holiday and the Sunday is not.

25 April is a Tuesday in 2028, so Anzac Day is a public holiday on that weekday itself and Schedule 2's Sunday substitution is not triggered.

Every weekday where Northern Territory and the national Australian set part company, 2026 to 2028

A Northern Territory count and a count on the national Australian set give the same answer unless the span crosses one of these dates. Each public holiday that only Northern Territory has on a weekday pushes a Northern Territory deadline one working day later; each one that only the national Australian set has pulls it one day earlier.

Seven dates across three years. Weekend holidays are left out because they take no working day either way.

Worked counts across Northern Territory's own dates

Each example starts on the working day before a date from the table above and adds three working days on both calendars, computed by the same engine as the calculator:

• From Friday, May 1, 2026, three working days in Northern Territory reach Thursday, May 7; on the national Australian set they reach Wednesday, May 6. The difference is May Day on Monday, May 4.
• From Friday, July 31, 2026, three working days in Northern Territory reach Thursday, August 6; on the national Australian set they reach Wednesday, August 5. The difference is Picnic Day on Monday, August 3.
• From Friday, April 23, 2027, three working days in Northern Territory reach Thursday, April 29; on the national Australian set they reach Wednesday, April 28. The difference is Anzac Day (observed) on Monday, April 26.

Northern Territory working days by year

Each year's total is its weekdays less the holidays that land on them, so the gap to the national Australian set is exactly the holidays on a weekday that only one of the two lists has that year.

Northern Territory dates for the calculator's Advanced options

The Australia calculator counts the national Australian set. Its Advanced options accept extra dates to exclude, one per line and nothing else on the line, so pasting this block adds Northern Territory's own weekday dates for 2026 to 2028. The table above names each date.

2026-05-04
2026-08-03
2027-04-26
2027-05-03
2027-08-02
2028-05-01
2028-08-07

Northern Territory's list has every public holiday on the national Australian set, so these additions are all the calculator needs.

Area holidays in Northern Territory, 2026 to 2028

An area holiday is a public holiday in part of Northern Territory only, so no count for the whole territory can include it. A count for a span inside one of these areas has to take its own date out by hand: