Victoria Calendar 2027 with Public Holidays

Victorian public holidays

Section 6 of the Public Holidays Act 1993 sets thirteen days: New Year’s Day, Australia Day, Labour Day on the second Monday in March, Good Friday, the Saturday before Easter Sunday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, the King’s Birthday on the second Monday in June, the Friday before the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup Day on the first Tuesday in November, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The table under this text lists this year’s dates, and the calendar prints them on A4 with Monday-first weeks. In September it moves on to 2028.

Grand Final Friday

A holiday set by a football fixture: it falls on the day before the AFL decides its premiers at the MCG, so it moves when the AFL’s season does, and the Minister can gazette a different day. For 2026 it was Friday 25 September. The AFL has set the 2027 Grand Final for Saturday 2 October, which would make the holiday Friday 1 October, but the calendar waits for Business Victoria to publish it before marking it.

Melbourne Cup Day across the state

Cup Day applies to the whole of Victoria by default. A council outside metropolitan Melbourne can ask, at least 90 days ahead, for a local holiday instead, often its own show or race day, and the Minister gazettes it; in that council’s area Cup Day then isn’t a holiday. So if you’re in regional Victoria, look up your council’s day on Business Victoria’s list of non-metropolitan holidays and swap it in.

Anzac Day and the weekend

Victoria gives no replacement day when Anzac Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, as it did in 2026 and 2027, and the Easter Saturday and Sunday holidays always fall on a weekend. A weekend New Year’s Day, Christmas Day or Boxing Day is different: each brings an additional weekday, printed on the calendar.

Other states

For any other state or territory, start from the Australia calendar; every other layout is in the calendar maker.

Public holidays in Victoria, 2027

These are the dates marked on the calendar above, worked out from the same rules. Change the start month or year and the list under the preview follows.