No — today is not a public holiday in Australian Capital Territory.

The first line of this page answers that for today on Sydney time, worked out from the same dates as the tables below. If your device's clock has moved past the day the page was built, the answer re-checks itself in your browser and says so beside the verified badge. A part-day holiday gets a “Partly” rather than a yes, and a day that applies in one region only is never counted as a holiday for the whole territory.

Fifteen across the whole territory — the first is New Year's Day on Thursday 1 January 2026 and the last is Additional public holiday for Boxing Day on Monday 28 December 2026. The total moves from year to year because several days gain a substitute or an extra Monday when they land on a weekend, and the last column of the table says which rule produced each date.

The calendar leaf near the top of this page names it and counts the days from today on Sydney time. Holidays are gazetted a year at a time, so the 2027 list already sits under the 2026 one — the answer keeps working through December instead of running out at New Year, and the 2027 dates are the ones to plan travel or rosters around.

Yes. In 2026 the ACT public holiday for Anzac Day is Saturday 25 April 2026, and Monday 27 April 2026 is a public holiday as well — additional public holiday for Anzac Day — under Holidays Act 1958 (ACT) A1958-19. Whether a jurisdiction adds a day, swaps the day or leaves a weekend Anzac Day where it falls is the rule that differs most across the country, which is why the answer for ACT should never be taken from a national list.

A public holiday unique to the ACT, held on 27 May or the following Monday when the 27th is not one. It marks the anniversary of the 1967 referendum and was added to the Holidays Act in 2018.

Because the rule chases a Monday, the date moves further than most: 27 May 2026 is a Wednesday, so the holiday is Monday 1 June, which puts it a week before the King’s Birthday and gives Canberra two long weekends in a fortnight.

You get the same two days off. You get them for opposite reasons, and the labels are the other way round.

In Sydney the 25th is always Anzac Day and any Monday beside it is an extra. In Canberra it depends what day the 25th lands on. 2026 works the Sydney way: 25 April is a Saturday, which s3(1)(a)(viii) leaves alone, so the Saturday is Anzac Day and instrument NI2026-154 declared the Monday an additional holiday.

2027 inverts it. 25 April is a Sunday, and the section moves Anzac Day itself to Monday 26 April — so the Monday is Anzac Day, and NI2026-387 declares the Sunday the additional day. Both days are public holidays either way, so a payroll run lands in the same place; anyone naming the days on a roster or a leave form has a one-in-two chance of labelling them backwards.

The second Monday in March — 9 March in 2026 and 8 March in 2027. It marks the naming of the city in 1913.

It shares its Monday with three other jurisdictions doing something completely different: Victoria’s Labour Day, South Australia’s Adelaide Cup Day and Tasmania’s Eight Hours Day all fall on the same date. If you are running a national roster, that Monday is a holiday in half the country and a working day in the other half.

It can, and it did — to a date on this very page, within the last year.

On 1 December 2025 the Minister made NI2025-650. It declared Monday 27 April 2026 a public holiday and, using s3(2), declared Saturday 25 April 2026 not to be one. That is a swap, not an addition: Canberra was set to trade its Anzac Day Saturday for the Monday, the way Queensland does.

On 25 March 2026, three and a half weeks before the day, NI2026-154 revoked it and declared the Monday an additional holiday instead. Revoking the earlier instrument took the s3(2) cancellation with it, which handed the Saturday back. That is how the Territory ended up with both days — and why a table copied from the December gazette and never re-read is wrong today.