🏦 Bank Holidays March 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).

March 2026 bank holidays

Date	Holiday	Kahan (RBI office – state)
2 Mar Monday	Holika Dahan	Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh)
3 Mar Tuesday	Holi (Second Day)/Dol Jatra/Dhulandi/Holika Dahan/Attukal Pongala	Belapur (Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Guwahati (Assam), Hyderabad (Telangana), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Panaji (Goa), Patna (Bihar), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)
4 Mar Wednesday	Holi/Holi 2nd Day – Dhuleti/Yaosang 2nd Day/Dol Jatra	Agartala (Tripura), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Aizawl (Mizoram), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Chandigarh (Chandigarh/Punjab/Haryana), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Gangtok (Sikkim), Guwahati (Assam), Imphal (Manipur), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Jammu (J&K), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kohima (Nagaland), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), New Delhi (Delhi), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Shillong (Meghalaya), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh)
13 Mar Friday	Chapchar Kut/Jumat-ul-Vida	Aizawl (Mizoram), Jammu (J&K), Srinagar (J&K)
14 Mar Saturday	Second Saturday	Sabhi banks (all India)
17 Mar Tuesday	Shab-I-Qadr	Jammu (J&K), Srinagar (J&K)
19 Mar Thursday	Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Festival/Telugu New Year's Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra	Belapur (Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai), Bengaluru (Karnataka), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Hyderabad (Telangana), Imphal (Manipur), Jammu (J&K), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Panaji (Goa), Srinagar (J&K), Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)
20 Mar Friday	Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan)	Kochi (Kerala), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala)
21 Mar Saturday	Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)/Khutub-E-Ramzan/Sarhul	lagbhag poore desh mein (31/34 RBI offices)
26 Mar Thursday	Shree Ram Navami	Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Aizawl (Mizoram), Belapur (Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai), Chandigarh (Chandigarh/Punjab/Haryana), Dehradun (Uttarakhand), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Shimla (Himachal Pradesh)
27 Mar Friday	Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)	Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Gangtok (Sikkim), Hyderabad (Telangana), Patna (Bihar), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh)
28 Mar Saturday	Fourth Saturday	Sabhi banks (all India)
30 Mar Monday	Mahavir Jayanti	Bengaluru (Karnataka), Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
31 Mar Tuesday	Mahavir Janmakalyanak/Mahavir Jayanti	Ahmedabad (Gujarat), Belapur (Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Jaipur (Rajasthan), Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Kolkata (West Bengal), Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh), Mumbai (Maharashtra), Nagpur (Maharashtra), New Delhi (Delhi), Patna (Bihar), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Ranchi (Jharkhand)

State / shehar ke hisaab se

Tripura (RBI Agartala): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Gujarat (RBI Ahmedabad): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Mizoram (RBI Aizawl): 4 Mar – Holi; 13 Mar – Chapchar Kut; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami
Maharashtra – Navi Mumbai (RBI Belapur): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Karnataka (RBI Bengaluru): 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 30 Mar – Mahavir Jayanti
Madhya Pradesh (RBI Bhopal): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain); 30 Mar – Mahavir Jayanti
Odisha (RBI Bhubaneswar): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)
Chandigarh/Punjab/Haryana (RBI Chandigarh): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami
Tamil Nadu (RBI Chennai): 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Uttarakhand (RBI Dehradun): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami
Sikkim (RBI Gangtok): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)
Assam (RBI Guwahati): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Telangana (RBI Hyderabad): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)
Manipur (RBI Imphal): 4 Mar – Holi; 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Arunachal Pradesh (RBI Itanagar): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Rajasthan (RBI Jaipur): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
J&K (RBI Jammu): 4 Mar – Holi; 13 Mar – Chapchar Kut; 17 Mar – Shab-I-Qadr; 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Uttar Pradesh (RBI Kanpur): 2 Mar – Holika Dahan; 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Kerala (RBI Kochi): 20 Mar – Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan)
Nagaland (RBI Kohima): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
West Bengal (RBI Kolkata): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Uttar Pradesh (RBI Lucknow): 2 Mar – Holika Dahan; 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Maharashtra (RBI Mumbai): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Maharashtra (RBI Nagpur): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami; 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Delhi (RBI New Delhi): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Goa (RBI Panaji): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Bihar (RBI Patna): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain); 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Chhattisgarh (RBI Raipur): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Jharkhand (RBI Ranchi): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain); 31 Mar – Mahavir Janmakalyanak
Meghalaya (RBI Shillong): 4 Mar – Holi; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Himachal Pradesh (RBI Shimla): 4 Mar – Holi; 26 Mar – Shree Ram Navami
J&K (RBI Srinagar): 13 Mar – Chapchar Kut; 17 Mar – Shab-I-Qadr; 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)
Kerala (RBI Thiruvananthapuram): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 20 Mar – Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan)
Andhra Pradesh (RBI Vijayawada): 3 Mar – Holi (Second Day); 19 Mar – Gudhi Padwa; 21 Mar – Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1); 27 Mar – Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)

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❓ FAQ

March 2026 mein bank kitne din band rahenge?

RBI list ke mutabik March 2026 mein 12 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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