Easter Saturday – Australia

The next Easter Saturday is on Saturday, March 27, 2027 – in 193 days.

In Australia it's a public holiday, so schools, government offices and most businesses close.

When is it? Easter Saturday falls on 1 days before Easter Sunday. It's calculated from Easter Sunday, which moves with the lunar calendar, so the date can shift by several weeks from one year to the next. Next time round is Saturday, March 27, 2027, 193 days from now.

Which weekday does it land on? Always the same day: every one of the eleven years in the table puts Easter Saturday on a Saturday. None of those years put it next to a weekend, so it doesn't make a long weekend on its own. You can open the printable calendar for any year in the table and see the date in context.

What to expect on the day. Banks, government offices and schools close. Supermarkets and larger shops usually open on reduced hours, smaller independents often don't bother, and public transport tends to run a Sunday timetable. Post isn't collected or delivered. If you need something from a council, a bank or a doctor's surgery, the working day before it is the one to aim for, and it will be busier than usual for exactly that reason. In 2027 it falls in March, which also holds Good Friday on the 26th, Easter Sunday on the 28th and Easter Monday on the 29th. Worth seeing them together before you commit to dates.

Putting it in your own calendar. You don't need to. Every calendar on this site already shows Easter Saturday for whichever country you've selected. What's worth adding is everything around it: the travel, the cover arrangements, who's visiting when. Open the month, click the days and type. Keep a free account and the notes stay with you between devices, and you can send someone a read-only link so you're both working from the same dates.

Every date here is worked out from the official rule rather than copied off a list, so the later years are as reliable as this one. If a date looks wrong for your region, please say so. Regional holiday rules do change, and we'd rather fix the rule than leave it.

Easter Saturday dates 2026–2036