Queensland essentials
How QLD stacks up
Queensland has 13 public holidays and 5 long weekends in 2026. That's 2 days behind the leaders, SA, NT & ACT (15).
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Public holidays in Queensland
Queensland (QLD) observes the national public holidays every state shares — New Year's Day, Australia Day, the Easter break, Anzac Day, Christmas and Boxing Day — alongside its own gazetted days. Simple Calendar keeps them all in one place, with the weekday each lands on and any substitute or regional notes.
Choose QLD once and your dates follow you across the site: long weekends, school terms, a full-year calendar and the working-day tools all scope themselves to Queensland. Every date is checked against the official state and territory government gazettes.
Common questions
Queensland (QLD) has 13 public holidays in 2026, including both the national holidays and its own state-specific days. Of these, 9 fall on a weekday.
The next public holiday in QLD is shown at the top of this page with a live countdown, and the full list of upcoming dates is on the Queensland public holidays page.
In 2026, Queensland observes the national public holidays plus shared state holidays such as Labour Day and the King's Birthday, but no holiday unique to QLD alone.
Queensland has 5 long weekends in 2026 and 253 working days once weekends and public holidays are excluded.