🏦 Bank Holidays August 2026 – state-wise list (RBI)

Yeh list RBI ki official holiday list (Negotiable Instruments Act ke tahat, regional office-wise) se banayi gayi hai. Bank holidays state ke hisaab se alag hote hain – "Kahan" column mein RBI office aur state dekhein. Har 2nd & 4th Saturday aur Ravivar ko sabhi banks band rehte hain.

✅ RBI data fetched 19 Oct 2026. RBI baad mein badlaav kar sakta hai – final confirmation ke liye RBI site ya apni branch dekhein.

Aaj (19 October 2026, Somvar (Monday)):
🏦 Dussehra (Mahashtami)/Maha Navami/Ayutha Pooja/Durga Puja/Vijaya Dashomi/Durga Ashtami: Agartala (Tripura), Aizawl (Mizoram), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Guwahati (Assam), Imphal (Manipur), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kochi (Kerala), Kohima (Nagaland), Kolkata (West Bengal), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Patna (Bihar), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala). Baaki jagah banks khule.
📈 Market khula (normal trading day, 9:15 AM – 3:30 PM IST).

August 2026 bank holidays

Date	Holiday	Kahan (RBI office – state)
4 Aug Tuesday	Ker Puja	Agartala (Tripura)
8 Aug Saturday	Tendong Lho Rum Faat	Gangtok (Sikkim)
8 Aug Saturday	Second Saturday	Sabhi banks (all India)
13 Aug Thursday	Patriot’s Day	Imphal (Manipur)
15 Aug Saturday	Independence Day/Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi)	lagbhag poore desh mein (34/34 RBI offices)
19 Aug Wednesday	Birthday of Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur	Agartala (Tripura)
22 Aug Saturday	Fourth Saturday	Sabhi banks (all India)
25 Aug Tuesday	First Onam/Milad-i-Sherif (Birthday of Prophet Muhammed)	Kochi (Kerala), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
26 Aug Wednesday	Id-E-Milad/Baravafat/Milad-un-Nabi (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad)/Thiruvonam	Belapur (Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Hyderabad (Telangana), Imphal (Manipur), Jammu (J&K), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kochi (Kerala), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nagpur (Maharashtra), New Delhi (Delhi), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Srinagar (J&K), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)
28 Aug Friday	Raksha Bandhan/Pang-Lhabsol/Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi/Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi/Ayyankali Jayanthi	Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Gangtok (Sikkim), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Jammu (J&K), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kochi (Kerala), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh), Srinagar (J&K), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)

State / shehar ke hisaab se

Tripura (RBI Agartala): 4 Aug – Ker Puja; 15 Aug – Independence Day; 19 Aug – Birthday of Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur
Gujarat (RBI Ahmedabad): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Mizoram (RBI Aizawl): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai (RBI Belapur): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Karnataka (RBI Bengaluru): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Madhya Pradesh (RBI Bhopal): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Odisha (RBI Bhubaneswar): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Chandigarh/Punjab/Haryana (RBI Chandigarh): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Tamil Nadu (RBI Chennai): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Uttarakhand (RBI Dehradun): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Sikkim (RBI Gangtok): 8 Aug – Tendong Lho Rum Faat; 15 Aug – Independence Day; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Assam (RBI Guwahati): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Telangana (RBI Hyderabad): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Manipur (RBI Imphal): 13 Aug – Patriot’s Day; 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Arunachal Pradesh (RBI Itanagar): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Rajasthan (RBI Jaipur): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
J&K (RBI Jammu): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Uttar Pradesh (RBI Kanpur): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Kerala (RBI Kochi): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 25 Aug – First Onam; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Nagaland (RBI Kohima): 15 Aug – Independence Day
West Bengal (RBI Kolkata): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Uttar Pradesh (RBI Lucknow): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Maharashtra (RBI Mumbai): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Maharashtra (RBI Nagpur): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Delhi (RBI New Delhi): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Goa (RBI Panaji): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Bihar (RBI Patna): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Chhattisgarh (RBI Raipur): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Jharkhand (RBI Ranchi): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad
Meghalaya (RBI Shillong): 15 Aug – Independence Day
Himachal Pradesh (RBI Shimla): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
J&K (RBI Srinagar): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Kerala (RBI Thiruvananthapuram): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 25 Aug – First Onam; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad; 28 Aug – Raksha Bandhan
Andhra Pradesh (RBI Vijayawada): 15 Aug – Independence Day; 26 Aug – Id-E-Milad

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❓ FAQ

August 2026 mein bank kitne din band rahenge?

RBI list ke mutabik August 2026 mein 8 holiday dates (alag-alag states mein) aur 2 Saturday holidays (2nd/4th) hain, plus sabhi Ravivar. Kaunsa din aapke state mein band hai, table mein dekhein.

Kya 2nd aur 4th Saturday ko bank band rehte hain?

Haan. RBI ke mutabik sabhi scheduled aur non-scheduled banks har mahine ke doosre aur chauthe Shanivar ko band rehte hain. Pehla, teesra (aur paanchva) Shanivar working day hai.

Bank holiday alag-alag state mein alag kyun hai?

RBI Negotiable Instruments Act ke tahat holidays apne regional offices ke hisaab se notify karta hai – isliye kai tyohaar (jaise Chhath, Bhai Dooj) sirf kuch states mein bank holiday hote hain. Apne state ka RBI office dekhein.

Bank holiday par UPI / net banking chalega?

UPI, IMPS, NEFT aur RTGS jaisi digital services 24x7 chalti hain, lekin branch band rehti hai aur cheque clearing holiday par nahi hoti.

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RBI – Bank Holidays (regional office-wise)

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