New Years Day 2025, 2026 and 2027

Every year on January 1st, people celebrate New Year’s Day, which marks the beginning of the calendar year. In Australia, the day is celebrated as a public holiday.

New Year’s Day is on Thursday, January 1st, 2026. In 2027, the holiday will fall on a Friday, January 1.

In South Australia and the Northern Territory, New Year’s Eve gets a mini public holiday from 7 pm to midnight, so you can celebrate those final hours in style. New Year’s Day, though, can shift around—if it lands on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday steps in as the official public holiday. Across most of Australia, shops shut down, and public transport runs on a pretty limited schedule that day.

Even though New Year’s Eve itself isn’t a full public holiday, it’s when Aussies go all out prepping for one of the year’s biggest bashes. Every capital city, tons of towns, and even people’s homes host epic celebrations to wave goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one.

At midnight, fireworks light up the sky in heaps of places, kicking off the New Year with a bang. Everyone’s singing, cheering, clinking glasses, and partying well into the early hours. On New Year’s Day, you’ll find events popping off in many towns and cities, but let’s be real—lots of folks are either recovering from the big night or kicking off their New Year’s resolutions.

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