✦ zenith calendar · the australia almanac
australia's national public holidays in one quiet layer of your sky, each one explained in a few plain paragraphs.
australia is one of the holiday almanacs that come with zenith calendar. it holds australia's national public holidays, the days every state and territory keeps on the same date, and on a phone set to australia it starts lit.
good friday and easter monday follow a published easter table; the rest come round on their date every year. when a day falls on a weekend the states add their own extra day off, which is not here. tap a holiday and read three short paragraphs: what it is, where it comes from, and how it is kept.
gregorian · fixed dates, with the easter days from a published western easter table
25 december
the feast of the birth of jesus christ, the son of god made man, and a public holiday across australia. here it falls in the heat of summer.
many go to midnight mass or a morning service, and the night before, crowds gather outdoors to sing carols by candlelight. families open presents and share a long lunch, often prawns, ham and turkey with pavlova, and the afternoon may go to a swim at the beach or a game of cricket in the street.
the friday before easter
the day of jesus' crucifixion and death, the most solemn day of the christian year, and a public holiday across australia.
christians gather to hear the passion read and to pray at the cross, many in the hours from noon to three, and hot cross buns are eaten. in australia easter falls in autumn, at the start of a long weekend.
25 april
the national day of remembrance for the australian and new zealand army corps, the anzacs, and for all australians who served and died in wars, conflicts and peace operations.
before first light people gather at war memorials for the dawn service; the last post sounds, a silence is kept, and the crowd answers "lest we forget". later veterans and their families march through cities and towns, and wreaths are laid.
zenith calendar draws the year as an orbit round the sun. lit, australia puts its holidays on their days on that ring, in lilac. its mark is its flag, 🇦🇺.
each of its holidays carries three short paragraphs in its notes: what it is, where it comes from (for a national day, as australia tells it), and how it is kept.
australia arrives locked, so nothing in it changes by accident. the lock guards your hand, not your eye: you can still read it, shine it or eclipse it. one tap unlocks it, and then it is yours to rename, recolour or add to.
tap its chip in the legend to eclipse it (kept, but not drawn) and tap again to bring it back. nothing is deleted either way.
australia shares one sky with your own commitments. like every almanac that comes with the app, it never counts toward the almanacs you can make for free, and it lives on your phone: zenith calendar has no server of its own.
✦ zenith calendar · the sky around it
australia is a single layer. beneath it is a whole calendar drawn as the sky, your year an orbit round the sun, and every part of it answers your touch.
the sun stands at the centre and the year rings round it, with today's earth riding at today's place, its small moon beside it. tap the ring anywhere else and a faint ghost earth waits on that day.
drag along the ring and the days pass under your finger, the big date and the day's list following as you go. lift, and the day you stopped on stays picked.
tap the small moon beside today's earth and you dive into the week. the moon above shows its phase, named underneath; swipe the dates and each week brings its own.
tap the sun and the ring tips on its edge into a ladder of years. in the week, pull the moon firmly down and the month opens, the moon resting half off its foot.
zenith calendar has no server of its own. tap the gear and switch on "nothing comes in" or "nothing leaves this phone"; lift them, and every almanac is back exactly as it was.
australia is waiting in the app, and the rest of the sky comes with it.
australia (country) ·
Yes. Christmas Day, 25 December, is a national public holiday and falls on a Friday in 2026; Boxing Day follows on the 26th.
Good Friday falls on 26 March 2027, and Easter Monday on 29 March. Both are public holidays across Australia.
Anzac Day is 25 April every year; in 2027 it falls on a Sunday. It is Australia's national day of remembrance, begun with dawn services at war memorials.
Zenith Calendar for Android comes with an almanac called australia: Australia's national public holidays, drawn on the ring of your year beside your own days. On a phone set to Australia it starts lit, and turning it on costs nothing.
No. It holds the national days every state and territory keeps on the same date. The extra day a state adds when a holiday falls on a weekend is not part of it.
The fixed days come from the national list of public holidays. Good Friday and Easter Monday follow a published Easter table, copied in rather than worked out on your phone.