The festive season is here and with it come the celebrations and major festivals. This is the holiday season and everyone waits for it in India.
As you enjoy and make merry during the holidays, the banks and their employees too would be joining you, meaning the banks would be closed too.
Hence, to facilitate your bank related activities, we share with you the dates when the banks would be closed so that you can carry out your undertakings by planning well in advance.
Bank Holidays in October:
16 Oct Tuesday Maha Saptami (Sikkim, West Bengal, Odisha, Tripura)
17 Oct Wednesday Maha Ashtami (Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Tripura, Maharashtra)
18 Oct Thursday Maha Navami (Meghalaya, Odisha, Puducherry, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Jharkhand)
19 Oct Friday Vijaya Dashami (National, except Puducherry, Manipur)
19 Oct Friday Dussehra/ Durga Puja
23 Oct Tuesday Lakshmi Puja (Tripura, Odisha, West Bengal)
24 Oct Wednesday Maharashi Valmiki Jaynati (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chhatisgarh)
26 Oct Friday Prakash Gurpurab of Sri Guru Ram Dass Ji (Punjab)
30 Oct Tuesday Lhabab Duchen (Sikkim)
31 Oct Wednesday Sardar Vallabhabhai Patel Jayanti (Gujarat)
Bank Holidays in November:
01 Nov Thursday Puducherry Liberation Day (Puducherry)
01 Nov Thursday Haryana Day (Haryana)
01 Nov Thursday Kannada Rajyosthsava (Karnataka)
01 Nov Thursday Kut (Manipur)
6 Nov Tuesday Deepavali (restricted) Karnataka, Goa, Telangana, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
07 Nov Wednesday Diwali (Nationalm barring a few states)
08 Nov Thursday Vikram Samvat New Year (Gujarat)
09 Nov Friday Bhai Dooj (Uttar Pradesh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Gujarat)
09 Nov Friday Wangala Festival (Meghalaya)
13 Nov Tuesday Chhath Puja (Jharkhand, Bihar)
14 Nov Wednesday Chhath Puja Holiday (Bihar)
16 Nov Friday Sahidi Diwas S Kartar Singh Sarabha Ji (Punjab)
21 Nov Wednesday Eid e Milad (National except Sikkim, Meghalaya, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh, Andaman and Nicobar, Bihar, Goa, Himachal Pradesh)
23 Nov Friday Friday Following Eid e Milad (Jammu & Kashmir)
23 Nov Friday Guru Nanak Jayanti (National except Goa, Karnataka, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Tripura)
23 Nov Friday Karthika Purnima (Telangana, Odisha, Meghalaya)
24 Nov Saturday Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji’s Martyrdom Day (Punjab)
26 Nov Monday Kanakadas Jayanti (Karnataka)
Disclaimer: All precautions have been taken to gather the most accurate information about the Bank Holiday dates for the months of October and November 2018. However, readers are advised to verify with their local branches to corroborate the same.