Melbourne Day 2026

Melbourne Day

Team up, Melbourne — be proud.

Sunday 30th August 2026 marks 191 years since the day the first European settlers landed on the north bank of the Yarra River from the schooner Enterprize.

Celebrate 2026 Melbourne Day - 191 years of marvellous

Your energy, heart and soul that made us one of the world's most liveable cities - an envy of the world - is unstoppable.

Cheer Melbourne and celebrate all that's great. It's time to stand for Melbourne and keep Melbourne marvellous.

Let's get back our No 1 World's Most Liveable City trophy.

Toot for Melbourne Day

Hook Turn maestro: Honk if you see chairman Campbell Walker's 4WD "Melbourne Day-mobile".

Sunday 30th August 1835

On Sunday 30th August 1835, these first settlers landed and commenced with the building of a thatched storage hut and the clearing of land along the north bank of the Yarra River. This location today is known as Enterprize Park where Williams Street and Flinders Street meet near the old Customs House.

Enterprize Park

On board the Enterprize, was Captain John Lancey with Launceston builder George Evans and his servant Evan Evans, carpenters William Jackson and Robert Hay Marr, ploughman Charles Wise and blacksmith James Gilbert and his wife Mary making up the party.

The people of the Kulin nation are the traditional owners of the land that became Melbourne, including the Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung, Taungurung and Djadjawurrung people, who gathered in this place for ceremonies and cultural activities.

Melbourne Day celebrates more than just the day the city was founded. It represents the point at which the proud community of Melbourne began. And it is a day to celebrate all that makes Melbourne one of the world's most liveable cities.

Reignite Melbourne – and keep Melbourne marvellous

Join the celebrations on Melbourne Day, to cheer your city and help hoist the Melbourne and Aboriginal flags atop the 20m flagpole at Enterprize Park.

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