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Working Day Calculator Australia
Deadlines across every state. Without the spreadsheet.
Calculate working days, court timelines, and SOPA-style date runs with state and territory holiday differences kept visible.
Built for legal, property, construction, and operations teams managing cross-state deadline risk.
Upcoming Australian Holidays and Significant Dates
Good Friday — 3 AprEaster Monday — 6 AprANZAC Day — 25 AprMother's Day — 10 MayKing's Birthday — 8 JunLabour Day — 5 Oct
Calculate Australian Working Days
Calculate deadlines and date differences using Australian state, territory, or sourced court rules.
Your result will appear here
Choose your settings, then press Calculate.
Australia Working Day Calculator
Calculate working days, court deadlines, and SOPA timelines in Australia across all states and territories, with public holidays, court-rule baselines, and explicit court controls where the governing rule makes them apply.
Australian Working Day & Business Day Calculator
Calculate end dates or count days between two dates using Australia's state and territory public holidays, including observed substitutions and regional show-day differences where they apply. Switch between working-day and calendar-day modes for conveyancing completions, contract deadlines, and ordinary business timelines.
Multiple-period calculations lets you chain up to six deadline periods for property settlements, construction payment schedules, and other multi-stage timelines where one deadline triggers the next.
Disclaimer: Use at your own risk and verify deadlines against the governing statute, contract, or court rules.
Built for Legal, Construction & Property Teams
Enable the Use court rules switch for the Federal Court, High Court, and supported state or territory courts. The calculator keeps short-period rules, registry-open-day logic, and optional recess exclusions explicit so you can match the governing rule without hiding important assumptions.
For a construction payment timeline, select the sourced SOPA exclusion explicitly, then choose the jurisdiction required by the governing definition.
Australia Working Day Calculator Features & Tools
Switch between working-day and calendar-day counting, control direction, and choose whether the start and end dates are included, to match contract or statute wording.
Chain up to six deadline periods in Manual rules for property settlements, SOPA payment schedules, and litigation workflows where timelines build on each other.
Apply Federal Court, High Court, or state/territory court rules (NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, NT, ACT), including short-period thresholds, registry-open-day logic, non-court-day roll-forward, and explicit court-recess controls where the governing rule makes them apply.
Select NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS (North/South), ACT, or NT to apply region-specific public holidays and observed substitutions. In High Court mode, also select the relevant Registry location.
Security of Payment counting mode for all eight jurisdictions. Enter the period from the governing rule; the calculator applies public holidays and the statutory Christmas/New Year exclusions.
Federal and state/territory public holidays included, with automatic Monday substitution when holidays fall on weekends (varies by state).
Standard Mon-Fri business day definition (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays) used in conveyancing, banking, and commercial contracts.
Visualize the result through a colour-coded timeline showing working days, weekends, public holidays, and court/shutdown periods.
Review excluded days, any selected court-rule controls, and export the calculation parameters and audit trail to PDF.
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Australian Working Day and Deadline Counting
Working Day Calculator Australia applies the state or territory, public holidays, counting method, and optional court or Security of Payment controls you select. The result and excluded dates stay visible for checking.
Learn more about our methodology, data sources, and publisher, review the Australian rule guides, or explore real-world use cases.
Select the jurisdiction and rules, inspect the count, and check the result against the governing source.