No — today is not a public holiday in Northern Territory.

The first line of this page answers that for today on Darwin time, worked out from the same dates as the tables below. If your device's clock has moved past the day the page was built, the answer re-checks itself in your browser and says so beside the verified badge. A part-day holiday gets a “Partly” rather than a yes, and a day that applies in one region only is never counted as a holiday for the whole territory.

Fifteen across the whole territory — the first is New Year's Day on Thursday 1 January 2026 and the last is New Year's Eve on Thursday 31 December 2026. The total moves from year to year because several days gain a substitute or an extra Monday when they land on a weekend, and the last column of the table says which rule produced each date.

The calendar leaf near the top of this page names it and counts the days from today on Darwin time. Holidays are gazetted a year at a time, so the 2027 list already sits under the 2026 one — the answer keeps working through December instead of running out at New Year, and the 2027 dates are the ones to plan travel or rosters around.

Yes. In 2026 the NT public holiday for Anzac Day is Saturday 25 April 2026 — under Public Holidays Act 1981 (NT). Whether a jurisdiction adds a day, swaps the day or leaves a weekend Anzac Day where it falls is the rule that differs most across the country, which is why the answer for NT should never be taken from a national list.

The first Monday in August, and a Territory institution with no equivalent anywhere else in Australia. Schedule 2 lists it without explanation, which is fitting for a day whose origins are usually traced to a workers’ picnic rather than to any formal commemoration.

It falls on the same Monday that Karratha and Port Hedland in Western Australia take as their regional King’s Birthday — the two are unrelated, but the coincidence means early August is quietly a long weekend across a lot of northern Australia.

Because they are not in the Act, and this page publishes what the Act says. Schedule 2 is the Territory-wide list; the show days are gazetted separately under section 6, which lets the Minister appoint a day for a named part of the Territory on at least 28 days’ notice.

They are real public holidays where they apply, and they differ by town — Darwin, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Borroloola each have their own. Reading the gazette notices town by town is the next piece of work here, and until it is done this page says the list is Territory-wide rather than pretending it is complete.

Two, both running from 7.00pm to midnight: Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. They are in Schedule 2 alongside the full days, which is why they are easy to miss.

They match South Australia exactly, in both the pair of dates and the 7pm start. Queensland has a single part-day, on Christmas Eve, opening an hour earlier at 6pm. No other jurisdiction has any.

Only for a Sunday. Schedule 2 gives 25 April or, if that day is a Sunday, the following Monday — a swap rather than an addition, and nothing at all when the 25th is a Saturday.

So in 2026 the Territory works Monday 27 April, and in 2027 it takes Monday 26 April while the 25th stops being a holiday. Queensland and the ACT use the identical rule; three jurisdictions swap, two add, and three leave the day exactly where it falls.