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Public holidays, market closures and deadlines for India, with the evidence behind each date and the day it was last checked.

How we know this — every layer we hold, how each is graded, and what is missing

155
Observances
41
Subdivisions
2
Exchanges
1
Calendar system

Includes subnational coverage · 41 subdivisions covered.

The next public holiday in India is

Gandhi Jayanti

In 5 days · expected; set by announcement

20:08 local time in India Weekend Last: Ganesh Chaturthi, 14 September 2026 · 13 days ago · expected; set by announcement

Computed · local time Asia/Kolkata

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India public holidays in 2026

24 national closures in 2026, of 155 observances held for the country. Subdivisions and the observed-but-open layer are not counted here.

DateObservanceEvidence
15 January 2026MCGM Election Day (Mumbai) expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
26 January 2026Republic DayTier 2 · Multiple sources
3 March 2026Holi expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
4 March 2026Holi expectedTier 2 · Multiple sources
20 March 2026Eid al-Fitr expectedTier 3 · Single official source
26 March 2026Ram Navami expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
31 March 2026Mahavir Jayanti expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
1 April 2026Mahavir Jayanti expectedTier 3 · Single official source
3 April 2026Good FridayTier 3 · Single official source
14 April 2026Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
1 May 2026Maharashtra Day expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
2 May 2026Buddha Purnima expectedTier 3 · Single official source
27 May 2026Eid al-Adha expectedTier 3 · Single official source
28 May 2026Id-ul-Adha (Bakri Id) expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
26 June 2026Muharram expectedTier 3 · Single official source
15 August 2026Independence DayTier 3 · Single official source
26 August 2026Milad un-Nabi expectedTier 3 · Single official source
14 September 2026Ganesh Chaturthi expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
2 October 2026Gandhi JayantiTier 3 · Single official source
20 October 2026Dussehra expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
9 November 2026Diwali expectedTier 2 · Multiple sources
10 November 2026Diwali Balipratipada expectedTier 4 · Secondary source
24 November 2026Guru Nanak Jayanti expectedTier 3 · Single official source
25 December 2026Christmas DayTier 3 · Single official source

The shape of India’s year

Every day of 2026, one square, weeks running left to right, January on the left. National layer only.

JFMAMJJASOND1 January2 January3 January4 January5 January6 January7 January8 January9 January10 January11 January12 January13 January14 January15 January — MCGM Election Day (Mumbai)16 January17 January18 January19 January20 January21 January22 January23 January24 January25 January26 January — Republic Day27 January28 January29 January30 January31 January1 February2 February3 February4 February5 February6 February7 February8 February9 February10 February11 February12 February13 February14 February15 February16 February17 February18 February19 February20 February21 February22 February23 February24 February25 February26 February27 February28 February1 March2 March3 March — Holi4 March — Holi5 March6 March7 March8 March9 March10 March11 March12 March13 March14 March15 March16 March17 March18 March19 March20 March — Eid al-Fitr21 March22 March23 March24 March25 March26 March — Ram Navami27 March28 March29 March30 March31 March — Mahavir Jayanti1 April — Mahavir Jayanti2 April3 April — Good Friday4 April5 April6 April7 April8 April9 April10 April11 April12 April13 April14 April — Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti15 April16 April17 April18 April19 April20 April21 April22 April23 April24 April25 April26 April27 April28 April29 April30 April1 May — Maharashtra Day2 May — Buddha Purnima3 May4 May5 May6 May7 May8 May9 May10 May11 May12 May13 May14 May15 May16 May17 May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23 May24 May25 May26 May27 May — Eid al-Adha28 May — Id-ul-Adha (Bakri Id)29 May30 May31 May1 June2 June3 June4 June5 June6 June7 June8 June9 June10 June11 June12 June13 June14 June15 June16 June17 June18 June19 June20 June21 June22 June23 June24 June25 June26 June — Muharram27 June28 June29 June30 June1 July2 July3 July4 July5 July6 July7 July8 July9 July10 July11 July12 July13 July14 July15 July16 July17 July18 July19 July20 July21 July22 July23 July24 July25 July26 July27 July28 July29 July30 July31 July1 August2 August3 August4 August5 August6 August7 August8 August9 August10 August11 August12 August13 August14 August15 August — Independence Day16 August17 August18 August19 August20 August21 August22 August23 August24 August25 August26 August — Milad un-Nabi27 August28 August29 August30 August31 August1 September2 September3 September4 September5 September6 September7 September8 September9 September10 September11 September12 September13 September14 September — Ganesh Chaturthi15 September16 September17 September18 September19 September20 September21 September22 September23 September24 September25 September26 September27 September28 September29 September30 September1 October2 October — Gandhi Jayanti3 October4 October5 October6 October7 October8 October9 October10 October11 October12 October13 October14 October15 October16 October17 October18 October19 October20 October — Dussehra21 October22 October23 October24 October25 October26 October27 October28 October29 October30 October31 October1 November2 November3 November4 November5 November6 November7 November8 November9 November — Diwali10 November — Diwali Balipratipada11 November12 November13 November14 November15 November16 November17 November18 November19 November20 November21 November22 November23 November24 November — Guru Nanak Jayanti25 November26 November27 November28 November29 November30 November1 December2 December3 December4 December5 December6 December7 December8 December9 December10 December11 December12 December13 December14 December15 December16 December17 December18 December19 December20 December21 December22 December23 December24 December25 December — Christmas Day26 December27 December28 December29 December30 December31 December

24 closuresevery other day

Long weekends in India, 2026

18 runs of three days or more, including the ones you only get by taking a single bridge day off. Computed on a Monday–Friday week. The corpus holds Sunday as this jurisdiction’s statutory weekly rest — corroborated — but a labour code names the day it guarantees, not the days custom adds, so it is cited above rather than computed from.

WhenLengthBecause ofLeave
15 Jan – 18 Jan4 daysMCGM Election Day (Mumbai)take Fri 16 Jan
24 Jan – 26 Jan3 daysRepublic Dayno leave needed
28 Feb – 4 Mar5 daysHolitake Mon 2 Mar
20 Mar – 22 Mar3 daysEid al-Fitrno leave needed
26 Mar – 29 Mar4 daysRam Navamitake Fri 27 Mar
28 Mar – 1 Apr5 daysMahavir Jayantitake Mon 30 Mar
31 Mar – 5 Apr6 daysMahavir Jayanti, Good Fridaytake Thu 2 Apr
3 Apr – 5 Apr3 daysGood Fridayno leave needed
11 Apr – 14 Apr4 daysDr. Ambedkar Jayantitake Mon 13 Apr
1 May – 3 May3 daysMaharashtra Day, Buddha Purnimano leave needed
27 May – 31 May5 daysEid al-Adha, Id-ul-Adha (Bakri Id)take Fri 29 May
26 Jun – 28 Jun3 daysMuharramno leave needed
12 Sep – 14 Sep3 daysGanesh Chaturthino leave needed
2 Oct – 4 Oct3 daysGandhi Jayantino leave needed
17 Oct – 20 Oct4 daysDussehratake Mon 19 Oct
7 Nov – 10 Nov4 daysDiwali, Diwali Balipratipadano leave needed
21 Nov – 24 Nov4 daysGuru Nanak Jayantitake Mon 23 Nov
25 Dec – 27 Dec3 daysChristmas Dayno leave needed

Next in each subdivision

28 subdivisions of India keep dates the national calendar does not. The next one in each is below — the full calendars are in the Calendar API.

SubdivisionNextObservance
Amritsar16 June 2027Martyrdom
Andhra Pradesh20 October 2026Dasara (Day 1) expected
Arunachal Pradesh15 February 2027Losar
Assam21 October 2026Durga Puja Bank Holiday expected
Bihar22 March 2027Bihar Day
Bodh Gaya8 February 2027Tibetan Losar Bank Holiday
Chandigarh13 January 2027Lohri
Goa3 December 2026St. Francis Xavier
Gujarat14 January 2027Uttarayan
Haryana5 August 2027Teej expected
Himachal Pradesh15 April 2027Himachal Day
Jammu and Kashmir6 March 2027Shab-e-Qadr expected
Jharkhand11 September 2027Karma Festival expected
Karnataka20 October 2026Dasara expected
Kerala14 April 2027Vishu Bank Holiday
Ladakh7 January 2027Dosmoche Festival
Maharashtra20 October 2026Dussehra expected
Manipur1 April 2027Cheiraoba
Meghalaya13 November 2026Wangala Festival
Odisha18 October 2026Durga Puja expected
Puducherry14 January 2027Pongal Day
Punjab13 January 2027Lohri
Sikkim8 February 2027Losar
Tamil Nadu19 October 2026Ayudha Puja expected
Telangāna14 January 2027Sankranti Day
Tripura18 October 2026Durga Puja expected
Uttar Pradesh15 April 2027Ram Navami expected
West Bengal18 October 2026Durga Puja Day expected

How we know this

Every layer this corpus carries, whether it exists for India, how many records, how each is graded and when it was last looked at. The record rather than the data — enough to check a claim before relying on it.

13/14 layers held for India
Layer Records How we know Last checked Notes
Statutory weekly rest1corroborated—1 named source, sectors recorded separately
Statutory closures994 verified · 52 corroborated · 43 compiled2026-08-21
Religious observances1236 verified · 61 corroborated · 56 compiled2026-08-21
Optional and restricted days262 verified · 3 corroborated · 21 compiled2026-08-10
Bank-only closures292 verified · 19 corroborated · 8 compiled2026-08-10
Observed but open11 compiled2026-08-21
Substitution and in-lieu rules1376 verified · 67 corroborated · 64 compiled2026-08-21
School terms and breaks138——18 calendars, 6 parallel: KVS Ernakulam Region and KV MAHE; KVS Long-Winter Station (Ladakh); KVS Summer Station, Group A…
Subdivisions with their own dates41——
Exchanges2——XBOM (42), XNSE (42)
Tax and filing deadlines6——
Elections21——
Announcements57——

Not held for India: Half-days and partial closures. A gap is ours, not a statement about the place — it means nobody here has read an instrument for it yet.

11 named documents, issued by 11 bodies, stand behind these rows. Every date is traceable to one of them:

rbi.org.in Andhra Pradesh Government / General Administration Department General Administration Department, Government of Goa Government of Maharashtra, General Administration Department (GAD) Government of West Bengal, Finance (Audit) Department Jammu & Kashmir Government / General Administration Department National Informatics Centre, Government of India Reserve Bank of India West Bengal Government / General Administration Department internal python-holidays maintainers

From the Bulletin

What the corpus turned up about India — published when there is something, and silent when there is not.

Correction · Reach · 22 August 2026 India declares fourteen nationwide closures. Three are national. In India, "closed" has four separate authorities, three of which issue a new answer every year. A calendar with one row per holiday cannot tell you which one it is quoting. Report · Silence · 22 August 2026 You cannot search for what you did not think of A dataset assembled from the open web inherits the shape of that web without anyone choosing it. No validator catches the result, because nothing is malformed — the record is consistent, correctly sourced, and missing most of the festival. Notice · Divergence · 22 August 2026 Mawlid an-Nabi 2026: there is no single date Thirty-seven jurisdictions appoint the Prophet's birthday and they will not all keep it on the same day. The divergence is visible in the laws themselves, before any announcement is made.

How India keeps time

Observances155 across the national calendar and 38 subdivisions
Evidence8 Tier 1 · 29 Tier 2 · 99 Tier 3 · 19 Tier 4, from 53 named sources
LanguagesBengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, hi-Latn, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, pa-Latn, Tamil, Telugu, ur-Latn
Calendar systemsgregorian
ExchangesXBOM, XNSE
Last reviewed2026-08-21

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Mixed sourcing

8 of 155 observances were read from the instrument itself; the others rest on an official document, on several independent sources, or on a published calendar reference. Across 53 named sources, and every row says which tier it holds.

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