Tasmania Public Holidays 2028

Tasmania's public holiday rules, applied to 2028

Tasmania adds Eight Hours Day on the second Monday of March (s 4(c)) and, since an amendment that commenced on 9 October 2026, Easter Sunday (s 4(da)). In 2028 those days are Eight Hours Day on Monday, March 13 and Easter Sunday on Sunday, April 16.

25 April is a Tuesday in 2028, so Anzac Day is a public holiday on that weekday itself and s 4(g) never needed a weekend clause.

The Statutory Holidays Act 2000 substitutes for a weekend New Year's Day or Boxing Day instead of adding to it. The rule is stated in s 4(a) and (j), which read 'unless ... in which case' and so substitute, while s 4(ia) adds a Monday after a Saturday Christmas. New Year's Day falls on a Saturday, and s 4(a) substitutes Monday, January 3 for it, so the Saturday is not a Tasmanian public holiday.

Easter Tuesday (Tuesday, April 18 in 2028) is a holiday under s 6 only for persons in a class referred to in section 6 of the Industrial Relations (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2009, so the statewide count treats it as a working day.

Schedule 1 of the Statutory Holidays Act 2000 fixes nine area holidays by rule rather than by date, and in 2028 they fall as follows: Royal Hobart Regatta on Monday, February 14 (the south, from Oatlands and Swansea down, less the West Coast and five named localities), King Island Show on Tuesday, March 7 (King Island), Agfest on Friday, May 5 (Circular Head), Burnie Show on Friday, October 6 (Burnie, Waratah-Wynyard and the West Coast), Royal Launceston Show on Thursday, October 12 (Launceston and six neighbouring municipal areas), Flinders Island Show on Friday, October 20 (Flinders), Royal Hobart Show on Thursday, October 26 (the Regatta's area, with four of its five excluded localities added back), Recreation Day on Monday, November 6 (every part of Tasmania that does not keep the Regatta), and Devonport Show on Friday, December 1 (Devonport, Kentish and Latrobe). Recreation Day covers every part of the state that does not keep the Regatta, so between them the two reach all of Tasmania, yet neither is statewide and neither is in this count.

Why 2028 gives Tasmania fewer working days

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. 2028 is a leap year that opens on a Saturday, so its two days beyond 52 whole weeks are a Saturday and a Sunday. It ends up with 260 weekdays, fewer than an ordinary year that starts midweek.

Nine public holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays (one more lands on a weekend and costs nothing), so Tasmania has 251 working days in 2028. That is two fewer than 2027 (253). The calendar supplies one fewer weekday, and one more holiday lands on a weekday.

Weekend public holidays in 2028, and what Tasmania does with each

A public holiday on a Saturday or Sunday removes no working day; what changes the count is whether Tasmania's law adds a weekday for it or puts one in its place. In Tasmania in 2028:

• New Year's Day falls on Saturday, January 1, which is not a public holiday here that year: Monday, January 3 replaces it.

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

What Tasmania's own days cost in 2028

A public holiday on Tasmania's list takes a working day out of the count only when it lands on a weekday that is not also a public holiday on the national Australian set, and a public holiday on the national Australian set that is not on Tasmania's list puts one back only when it lands on a weekday. In 2028, Tasmania's additions on a weekday are Eight Hours Day on Monday, March 13, while Easter Sunday on Sunday, April 16 falls on a weekend and changes nothing.

The net effect is one fewer working day than the national Australian set: 251 against 252.

Where the fixed-date holidays land in 2028

A holiday tied to a calendar date moves one weekday later each year, and two once 29 February has passed, so the week it breaks changes every year while its date stays put. 2028 is a leap year, so every date from March onward jumps two weekdays against 2027:

• New Year's Day is a Saturday in 2028, after a Friday in 2027, 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.
• Australia Day is a Wednesday in 2028, after a Tuesday in 2027: a midweek break that leaves two working days on each side of it on this page's count.
• ANZAC Day is a Tuesday in 2028, after a Sunday in 2027, which strands Monday, April 24 between the weekend and the holiday on this page's count.
• Christmas Day is a Monday in 2028, after a Saturday in 2027, so on this page's count it is one of four days off in a row, Saturday, December 23 to Tuesday, December 26.
• Boxing Day is a Tuesday in 2028, after a Sunday in 2027, so on this page's count it is one of four days off in a row, Saturday, December 23 to Tuesday, December 26.

Long weekends and four-day breaks in Tasmania, 2028

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, Tasmania has five such breaks in 2028:

• Saturday, January 1 to Monday, January 3: three days, for New Year's Day (observed).
• Saturday, March 11 to Monday, March 13: three days, for Eight Hours Day.
• Friday, April 14 to Monday, April 17: four days, for Good Friday and Easter Monday.
• Saturday, June 10 to Monday, June 12: three days, for King's Birthday.
• Saturday, December 23 to Tuesday, December 26: four days, for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Bridge days and midweek breaks in 2028

A holiday on a Tuesday or a Thursday strands a single working day between it and the weekend; a Wednesday one splits the week into two short runs instead. 2028 has both kinds. The stranded day is Monday, April 24, next to ANZAC Day.

The midweek closure is Australia Day on Wednesday, January 26. A deadline counted across a Wednesday holiday loses its day in the middle of the week, not at either end, so a count that steps through the week one day at a time has to skip it there.

Tasmania month by month, 2028

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 Tasmania's own calendar changes.

The longest unbroken stretch of 2028

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 2028 it runs from Tuesday, June 13 to Friday, December 22, straddling the middle of the year: 139 working days, 27 full working weeks and four days.

The first working day of 2028 on this count is Tuesday, January 4, after New Year's Day (observed). The last is Friday, December 29, which is the latest date a count of working days can end on inside 2028.

Which calendar the 2028 count uses

The count uses the public holidays Tasmania's own Act declares for the whole state, including any weekday the Act adds or substitutes for a weekend holiday. The Royal Hobart Regatta, Recreation Day, Agfest and the show days apply to parts of the state only (section 5 and Schedule 1 of the Statutory Holidays Act 2000), and Easter Tuesday, under s 6, only to persons in a class referred to in section 6 of the Industrial Relations (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2009, so none of them is counted.