Tasmania essentials
How TAS stacks up
Tasmania has 10 public holidays and 5 long weekends in 2026. That's 5 days behind the leaders, SA, NT & ACT (15). Only TAS gets Eight Hours Day and Easter Tuesday.
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Public holidays in Tasmania
Tasmania (TAS) 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 TAS 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 Tasmania. Every date is checked against the official state and territory government gazettes.
Common questions
Tasmania (TAS) has 10 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 TAS is shown at the top of this page with a live countdown, and the full list of upcoming dates is on the Tasmania public holidays page.
In 2026, Eight Hours Day and Easter Tuesday are public holidays observed only in TAS.
Tasmania has 5 long weekends in 2026 and 253 working days once weekends and public holidays are excluded.