When are the next school holidays in Australia? 2026 and 2027 dates by state
Choose your state or territory
- NSW New South Waleseastern division
Summer school holidays 2026–27School's in
Starts · 44 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026 - VIC Victoria
Summer school holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 45 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026 - QLD Queensland
Term 4 holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 38 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026 - WA Western Australia
Summer school holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 44 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026 - SA South Australia
Term 4 2026 endsSchool's in
· 37 days until the end of term
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026 - TAS Tasmania
Summer school holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 45 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Public holidays 2026 - ACT Australian Capital Territory
Summer school holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 45 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Public holidays 2026 - NT Northern Territory
Summer school holidaysSchool's in
Starts · 37 days to go
Term dates 2026Term dates 2027Term dates 2028Public holidays 2026
Term dates and school holidays for every Australian state and territory, straight from the education departments, with a countdown in each state's own time and the states lined up side by side.
Start with the school calendar for your state or territory. Find the next break with a countdown for every state and territory, each using its own time zone. Browse term dates and school holiday periods year by year, including the first day back, or put states side by side to compare their calendars. Public holidays are grouped by state, and centrally published pupil-free days are shown separately. Every published date comes from an official page, with a link and the day it was read. Where holiday periods are worked out from published term boundaries, they are clearly marked so you can distinguish them from dates listed directly.
School holidays: the local countdown
| State | Next break | Date | Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| NTNorthern Territory · Darwin time | Summer school holidaysSchool's in | 37 to goto go | |
| SASouth Australia · Adelaide time | Term 4 2026 endsSchool's in | 37 to the end of termto the end of term | |
| QLDQueensland · Brisbane time | Term 4 holidaysSchool's in | 38 to goto go | |
| NSWNew South Wales, eastern division · Sydney time | Summer school holidays 2026–27School's in | 44 to goto go | |
| WAWestern Australia · Perth time | Summer school holidaysSchool's in | 44 to goto go | |
| ACTAustralian Capital Territory · Canberra time | Summer school holidaysSchool's in | 45 to goto go | |
| TASTasmania · Hobart time | Summer school holidaysSchool's in | 45 to goto go | |
| VICVictoria · Melbourne time | Summer school holidaysSchool's in | 45 to goto go |
Northern Territory: School's in. 37 days to go. Summer school holidays. South Australia: School's in. 37 days until the end of term. Term 4 2026. Queensland: School's in. 38 days to go. Term 4 holidays. New South Wales, eastern division: School's in. 44 days to go. Summer school holidays 2026–27. Western Australia: School's in. 44 days to go. Summer school holidays. Australian Capital Territory: School's in. 45 days to go. Summer school holidays. Tasmania: School's in. 45 days to go. Summer school holidays. Victoria: School's in. 45 days to go. Summer school holidays.
Each row represents a state or territory in local time, soonest first; flip digits show days until holidays, or holiday days remaining where holidays have begun. Status as at .
Each state and territory has a card using its own local time. It shows whether school is in or out today according to the published calendar, the next holiday period, and how many days remain until the next break or the first day back. Individual school calendars and pupil-free days may affect attendance.
Compare the states
Planning around relatives interstate, or a trip when the other states are still at school? These tables put every state and territory side by side.
- School holidays across Australia 2026available term dates and school holidays compared by state
- School holidays across Australia 2027available term dates and school holidays compared by state
- Public holidays across Australia 2026which states observe which day
- Public holidays across Australia 2027which states observe which day
- Long weekends in 2026By state and territory, drawn from the published public holidays.
- Long weekends in 2027By state and territory, drawn from the published public holidays.
- Easter school holidays 2026Every state's Easter break, including the first day back
- Easter school holidays 2027Every state's Easter break, including the first day back
- Christmas school holidays 2026Christmas summer holidays in every state, with the first day back
- Christmas school holidays 2027Christmas summer holidays in every state, with the first day back
- Pupil-free dayswho publishes them and when they fall
- NAPLAN test dates 2027 and 2028National testing window alongside each state's term dates
- HSC written exam dates 2026 and 2027Written exam start, finish, results and NSW terms
From official calendars to checked tables
Dates are copied from education department and government pages, then checked independently a second time before publication. Nothing is estimated or carried forward from an earlier calendar. If a year is missing from the official information, it is identified as not yet published. Where a department supplies term boundaries without holiday periods, the gaps between terms are labelled as derived. If official pages disagree, the affected period is left out until the discrepancy is settled. Each source link lets you check the original information, which takes precedence over this site. This is an independent guide, not a government service.
Questions and answers
When are the next school holidays?
Find your state or territory on the countdown board above for the next published break and the time remaining before it starts. The local calendar matters when family members attend school in different states.
Why do school holiday dates differ across Australia?
Each state and territory runs its own government schools and publishes its own term calendar. Those calendars do not always line up, so a break can begin earlier in one place than another.
Where do the dates come from?
Term dates come from education departments, while public holiday dates come from the relevant government bodies. Source details link to the official pages and record when they were read; calculated gaps between terms carry a derived label.