Anzac Day 2027 is Sunday 25 April

Anzac Day public holidays, state by state

"Moved" means 25 April itself is not a public holiday there that year — the holiday is the Monday instead. Where two dates are shown, both are public holidays.

Why the answers differ

There is no national Anzac Day law: each state and territory's own Act decides what happens when 25 April falls on a weekend, and three different rules come out of eight Acts.

• NSW: 25 April always (section 4(g)) — the Act never moves it. An extra Monday comes only from a ministerial order under section 5: one order, made in 2026, added the Monday in both 2026 and 2027, and the 25th still counts.
• VIC: 25 April always (section 6(h)), and nothing is added when it falls on a weekend.
• QLD: 25 April, or the following Monday if the 25th is a Sunday (the Schedule) — a swap, and for a Sunday only.
• WA: 25 April, and the following Monday as well whenever the 25th is a Saturday or a Sunday (Schedule 2).
• SA: 25 April (section 3(1)(h)); the Act has no weekend rule.
• TAS: 25 April (section 4(g)); the Act has no weekend rule.
• ACT: 25 April, or the following Monday if the 25th is a Sunday (section 3(1)(a)(viii)) — and declarations under section 3(1)(b), one for 2026 and one for 2027, made the other day a holiday too, so the ACT keeps both.
• NT: 25 April, or the following Monday if the 25th is a Sunday (Schedule 2) — a swap, Sunday only.

Shops on Anzac Day

• NSW: restricted trading: Anzac Day. You may still read that NSW shops can open after 1pm on Anzac Day. That rule has gone: the Retail Trading Amendment (Anzac Day Trading Hours) Act 2024 changed s4(c) to 'at all times on Anzac Day', and Schedule 2 Part 6 cl 12 removed the old Shops and Industries Act 1962 exemption for those shops.
• VIC: restricted trading: Anzac Day until 1pm.
• QLD: restricted trading: Anzac Day (25 April). Independent retail shops, otherwise exempt, must also stay closed until 1pm on 25 April unless they sell mainly food or groceries (s17(2)) — and a moved public holiday does not move that closure either (s17(3)). In 2027 the public holiday is Monday 26 April, but the closed trading day is still Sunday 25 April.
• WA: General retail shops close on every public holiday unless an order opens them, and Anzac Day is one of three days on which no order can open a metropolitan one (s12E(3A)). Small retail shops may open at any time (s12C).
• SA: restricted trading: every public holiday, inside a shopping district: greater Adelaide by definition, or a district proclaimed at a council's request. In the Adelaide CBD Tourist Precinct shops may open from 12 noon to 5pm on Anzac Day (s13(2)(f)).
• TAS: Anzac Day comes under a separate Act, the Anzac Day Observance Act 1929, which has not been read here.
• ACT: no shop trading-hours law at all (liquor and gambling licences keep their own hours).
• NT: no shop trading-hours law at all (liquor and gambling licences keep their own hours).

Where each date comes from

Each state and territory's Act, with the ministerial orders and declarations that add a day, read and checked between Friday 4 September 2026 and Wednesday 30 September 2026. The instrument for each is named, with its link, on the state's page. For a decision that depends on it, confirm there.

Every other statewide holiday, state by state, is on the year calendar; the two that fall in different months by state have pages of their own, Labour Day and the King's Birthday.