National-Digital/vic-important-dates

Victorian public holidays, school terms and other important dates

Public holidays, school terms and holidays, daylight saving changes, parliamentary sitting days and multifaith calendar dates for Victoria, one row per date, from 2018 to 2030.

This is a copy of the 2026-08-18 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 2,894 rows and 7 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-important-dates/v/2026-08-18/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Government Services under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Government Services, Victorian Government, Victorian Government Important Dates API data, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/government-dates-api-data, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Government Services, Victorian Government, Victorian Government Important Dates API data, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/government-dates-api-data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-important-dates/v/2026-08-18/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-important-dates/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/vic-important-dates", revision="v2026-08-18") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-important-dates/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
date_id	string	The publisher's identifier for the event. A multi-day event repeats it on each of its rows.
date_type	string	PUBLIC_HOLIDAY, SCHOOL_TERM, SCHOOL_HOLIDAY, DAYLIGHT_SAVING, PARLIAMENT_SITTING or MULTI_FAITH.
name	string	name
date	date	important_date
source_body	string	The body the date comes from, as the publisher names it.
description	string	description
source_url	string	source

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.