Bank holiday alert: When is Holi 2026? Are banks open or closed on March 3 or 4 for Holi celebration? Check now

There is a lot of confusion about when banks will be closed for Holi: March 3 or March 4, 2026. Bank holidays vary from state to state. For the festival of Holi, banks in some states will remain closed on March 3, 2026, while in others they will be closed on March 4, 2026. Banks will remain shut for two consecutive days in a few states.

Banks in which states are closed for Holi on March 3, 2026?

Banks are closed on March 3, 2026 to celebrate Holi, Dol Jatra, Dhulandi, Holika Dahan, Attukal Pongala in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Goa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh.

Banks in which states are closed for Holi on March 4, 2026?

Banks are closed on March 4, 2026 to celebrate Holi, Dhuleti, Yaosang (2nd Day) in Tripura, Gujarat, Mizoram, Odisha, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh.


Also read: Bank holidays in March 2026: Full list of state-wise bank holidays you should check before planning visits

Are banks closed for 2 days for Holi?

Banks are closed for two days in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.

Major bank holidays in March 2026

Depending on the state, banks will be closed on festivals such as Holika Dahan, Holi (Second Day), Dol Jatra, Dhulandi, Holika Dahan, Attukal Pongala, Holi, Holi 2nd Day, Dhuleti, Yaosang 2nd Day, Chapchar Kut, Shab-I-Qadr, Gudhi Padwa, Ugadi Festival, Telugu New Year's Day, Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba), 1st Navratra, Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan), Jumat-ul-Vida, Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1), Khutub-E-Ramzan, Sarhul, Shree Ram Navami, Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain), Mahavir Janmakalyanak, Mahavir Jayanti.

Bank holidays in March 2026

Mar-26	2	3	4	13	17	19	20	21	26	27	31
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		•				•	•			•

Holiday Description	Day
Holika Dahan	2
Holi (Second Day)/Dol Jatra/Dhulandi/Holika Dahan/Attukal Pongala	3
Holi/Holi 2nd Day – Dhuleti/Yaosang 2nd Day	4
Chapchar Kut	13
Shab-I-Qadr	17
Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Festival/Telugu New Year's Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra	19
Eid-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan)/Jumat-ul-Vida	20
Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)/Khutub-E-Ramzan/Sarhul	21
Shree Ram Navami	26
Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain)	27
Mahavir Janmakalyanak/Mahavir Jayanti	31

Source- RBi