Western Australia Public Holidays 2027

Western Australia's public holiday rules, applied to 2027

Western Australia adds Labour Day on the first Monday of March, Easter Sunday and Western Australia Day on the first Monday of June, and holds the King's Birthday on a day appointed each year by proclamation, where this site's national set has the second Monday of June. In 2027 those days are Labour Day on Monday, March 1, Easter Sunday on Sunday, March 28, Western Australia Day on Monday, June 7, and King's Birthday on Monday, September 27.

25 April is a Sunday in 2027. The Second Schedule makes the next Monday "also a public holiday" when Anzac Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, so Monday, April 26 is added and the Sunday stays a public holiday.

The Public and Bank Holidays Act 1972 adds a weekday for a weekend year-end holiday rather than replacing the weekend date. The rule is stated in the same Second Schedule words, 'is also a public holiday'. 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 Government of Western Australia lists the King's Birthday on Monday, September 27 in 2027. Under the Second Schedule the day is "appointed for each year by proclamation published in the Government Gazette at least 3 weeks before the day so appointed"; this site's national set has Monday, June 14.

2027 in Western Australia: 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 public holidays in this page's count fall on weekdays (four more land on a weekend and cost nothing), so Western Australia has 251 working days in 2027. That matches 2026 exactly, with the same weekday supply and the same number of weekday holidays.

Weekend public holidays in 2027, and what Western Australia does with each

A public holiday on a Saturday or Sunday removes no working day; what changes the count is whether Western Australia's law adds a weekday for it or puts one in its place. In Western Australia 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 Western Australia's own days cost in 2027

A public holiday on Western Australia'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 Western Australia's list puts one back only when it lands on a weekday. In 2027, Western Australia's additions on a weekday are Labour Day on Monday, March 1, Anzac Day (additional) on Monday, April 26, Western Australia Day on Monday, June 7, and King's Birthday on Monday, September 27, while Easter Sunday on Sunday, March 28 falls on a weekend and changes nothing. King's Birthday on Monday, June 14 is on the national Australian set and not on Western Australia's list, so the count treats it as a working day.

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 Western Australia, 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, Western Australia has seven such breaks in 2027:

• Friday, January 1 to Sunday, January 3: three days, for New Year's Day.
• Saturday, February 27 to Monday, March 1: three days, for Labour 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 5 to Monday, June 7: three days, for Western Australia Day.
• Saturday, September 25 to Monday, September 27: three days, for King's Birthday.
• 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 Western Australia 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.

Western Australia 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 Western Australia's own calendar changes.

The longest unbroken stretch of 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, June 8 to Friday, September 24, straddling the middle of the year: 79 working days, 15 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 the public holidays Western Australia's own Act declares for the whole state, including any weekday the Act adds or substitutes for a weekend holiday. The King's Birthday is a day appointed each year by proclamation in the Government Gazette, and the count uses the date the Government of Western Australia lists for the state. It also lists regional areas that hold the King's Birthday on an alternative date instead; those dates are not counted.