Queensland Business Day Calculator

Queensland'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 Queensland's own days for each year:

A cell reading "not on the list" marks a public holiday on the national Australian set that is not on Queensland's list that year.

How Queensland's rules play out across 2026 to 2028

Queensland adds the day after Good Friday (Easter Saturday), Easter Sunday and Labour Day on the first Monday in May, and its Holidays Act 1983 puts the Birthday of the Sovereign, the King's Birthday, on the first Monday in October, where this site's national set has the second Monday of June. Because the Holidays Act 1983 puts the King's Birthday on the first Monday in October, a Queensland count skips Monday, October 5, 2026, Monday, October 4, 2027, and Monday, October 2, 2028 and counts the June Mondays of this site's national set, June 8, 2026, June 14, 2027, and June 12, 2028, as working days.

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

25 April is a Saturday in 2026. The Holidays Act 1983 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 Holidays Act 1983 substitutes the Monday for a Sunday Anzac Day ("if 25 April is a Sunday"), 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 the schedule's Sunday substitution is not triggered.

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

A Queensland 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 Queensland has on a weekday pushes a Queensland deadline one working day later; each one that only the national Australian set has pulls it one day earlier.

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

Worked counts across Queensland'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 Queensland reach Thursday, May 7; on the national Australian set they reach Wednesday, May 6. The difference is Labour Day on Monday, May 4.
• From Friday, June 5, 2026, three working days in Queensland reach Wednesday, June 10; on the national Australian set they reach Thursday, June 11. The difference is King's Birthday on Monday, June 8.
• From Friday, April 23, 2027, three working days in Queensland reach Thursday, April 29; on the national Australian set they reach Wednesday, April 28. The difference is Anzac Day (observed) on Monday, April 26.

Queensland 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.

Queensland 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 Queensland's own weekday dates for 2026 to 2028. The table above names each date.

2026-05-04
2026-10-05
2027-04-26
2027-05-03
2027-10-04
2028-05-01
2028-10-02

The options can add dates to exclude but cannot remove one, and King's Birthday on June 8, 2026, King's Birthday on June 14, 2027, and King's Birthday on June 12, 2028 are not on Queensland's list. A span crossing any of those dates will land one working day later on the calculator than in Queensland, so correct it by one day.

Area holidays in Queensland, 2026 to 2028

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