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Closure on August 15

All banks across India will remain closed on August 15, Friday for Independence Day celebrations.

Closure on August 16

August 16 will be a holiday for banks in several states due to Janmashtami/Krishna Jayanthi celebrations. The states observing the holiday include Gujarat, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Telangana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Srinagar, and Andhra Pradesh.While August 15 to 17 constitutes a long weekend in most states, banks will operate in Tripura, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala, Nagaland, West Bengal, New Delhi, Goa, and Himachal Pradesh on Saturday.

State-wise bank holidays

Here’s a list of Bank Holidays for the month of August (As cited by ET):

City/State 8 9 13 15 16 19 25 27 28
Agartala ✓ ✓
Ahmedabad ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Aizawl ✓ ✓
Belapur ✓ ✓
Bengaluru ✓ ✓
Bhopal ✓ ✓ ✓
Bhubaneswar ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Chandigarh ✓ ✓
Chennai ✓ ✓ ✓
Dehradun ✓ ✓ ✓
Gangtok ✓ ✓ ✓
Guwahati ✓ ✓
Hyderabad ✓ ✓ ✓
Imphal ✓ ✓
Itanagar ✓
Jaipur ✓ ✓ ✓
Jammu ✓ ✓
Kanpur ✓ ✓ ✓
Kochi ✓
Kohima ✓
Kolkata ✓
Lucknow ✓ ✓ ✓
Mumbai ✓ ✓
Nagpur ✓ ✓
New Delhi ✓
Panaji ✓ ✓ ✓
Patna ✓ ✓
Raipur ✓ ✓
Ranchi ✓ ✓
Shillong ✓ ✓
Shimla ✓ ✓
Srinagar ✓ ✓
Thiruvananthapuram ✓
Vijayawada ✓ ✓ ✓

Why the holidays?

  • August 8: Tendong Lho Rum Faat
  • August 9: Raksha Bandhan / Jhulana Purnima
  • August 13: Patriot’s Day
  • August 15: Independence Day / Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) / Janmashtami
  • August 16: Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8) / Krishna Jayanthi
  • August 19: Birthday of Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur
  • August 25: Tirubhav Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva
  • August 27: Ganesh Chaturthi / Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha) / Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata / Ganesh Puja / Vinayakar Chathurthi
  • August 28: Ganesh Chaturthi (2nd Day) / Nuakhai





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