No — today is not a public holiday in Western Australia.

The first line of this page answers that for today on Perth 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 state.

Thirteen across the whole state — 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, with one more that applies in part of the state only. 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 Perth 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 WA 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 Public and Bank Holidays Act 1972 (WA). 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 WA should never be taken from a national list.

Because the Second Schedule never listed one. It names Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday and stops there — so Western Australia is the only jurisdiction on this site where the Saturday of the Easter weekend is an ordinary Saturday.

It catches out national employers every year. A four-day Easter in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra and Darwin is a three-day Easter in Perth, and a roster written once for the whole company gets Saturday wrong in exactly one state.

Whenever the Governor proclaims it, which is the honest answer. Every other Western Australian public holiday can be worked out from a rule in the Second Schedule; this one is described only as a day to be appointed for each year by proclamation, gazetted at least three weeks beforehand.

In practice it has been landing in late September — the 28th in 2026 and the 27th in 2027. What it is not is the second Monday in June, which is when the eastern states take it, so a June long weekend on the east coast is an ordinary working Monday in Perth.

No — they get the same number on different days. Both districts observe the King’s Birthday on a Monday in early August, and the statewide September date is then not a public holiday there at all. It is a swap, not a bonus.

That is the opposite of how Queensland handles its show days, where a district gets an additional day on top of the statewide list. Two states, two very similar-sounding arrangements, and opposite effects on a leave balance.

It keeps the 25th and adds a Monday. The Second Schedule groups Anzac Day with New Year’s Day and Christmas Day: when any of them falls on a Saturday or a Sunday, the next Monday is also a public holiday.

That makes four different national answers for the same commemoration. WA and NSW end up with two days, though NSW gets there through a Ministerial order rather than its Act. Queensland, the ACT and the NT swap the day, and only when it is a Sunday. Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania add nothing at all.