Western Australia essentials
How WA stacks up
Western Australia has 13 public holidays and 7 long weekends in 2026. That's 2 days behind the leaders, SA, NT & ACT (15). Only WA gets Western Australia Day.
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Public holidays in Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) 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 WA 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 Western Australia. Every date is checked against the official state and territory government gazettes.
Common questions
Western Australia (WA) has 13 public holidays in 2026, including both the national holidays and its own state-specific days. Of these, 10 fall on a weekday.
The next public holiday in WA is shown at the top of this page with a live countdown, and the full list of upcoming dates is on the Western Australia public holidays page.
In 2026, Western Australia Day is a public holiday observed only in WA.
Western Australia has 7 long weekends in 2026 and 251 working days once weekends and public holidays are excluded.