This national overview identifies holiday occasions. Public holiday dates, substitute days and school calendars depend on the state or territory. Use your jurisdiction calendar for closures and countdowns.
Choose your jurisdiction for public holidays, substitute dates, local exceptions and school calendars.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Birthday in India. Delhi: 2026-04-14 (gazetted, source checked). Maharashtra: 2026-04-14 (public, source checked). Kerala: 2026-04-14 (public, source checked). Coverage is limited to the reviewed jurisdictions and institution types; this is not a nationwide closure claim.
India has national holidays, central-office gazetted holidays, state/UT notifications and employee-specific restricted leave. All 28 states and 8 union territories are listed. Reviewed 2026 entries are available for all 36 states/UTs. The newly completed 19 jurisdiction calendars retain 128 provisional entries; unsupported dates and amendments remain pending. Delhi central administrative offices and GNCTD government offices have separate calendars. Coverage is limited to the establishments and dates identified in each notice; 2027/2028 schedules remain pending authoritative verification. A festival is not automatically a holiday for every institution.
Additional and substitute dates are separate entries. Local and sector-only holidays apply only to the areas or institutions specified.
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
G.O.Rt.No.2276, 4 December 2025, Annexures I/II including weekend occasions. State offices only; does not automatically apply to industrial establishments, PSUs, PWD workmen or educational institutions. Moon-dependent dates await amendments. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Bihar Government 2026 calendar, page 2: state-office general holidays. Starred entries also carry NI Act coverage. Secretariat/directorate Saturdays are closed. Bank account closing applies only to banks. Muslim dates depend on moon sighting; no substitute inferred. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Chhattisgarh Gazette 845, 6 November 2025, GENS-1001/86/2025-GAD-5; signed government notice copy hosted by Internet Archive. General list covers state government offices/institutions; separate NI Act list establishes bank coverage. Three optional days per employee, not office closures. Sunday exclusions carry no substitute. Muslim dates retained provisionally; later amendments and separate school schedules remain pending. Optional Sunday exclusions (page 8): Louis Braille 4 January; Rajim Mela/Sant Ravidas 1 February; Gaur Gauri 8 March; Dr Khubchand Baghel 19 July; Agrasen Jayanti 11 October. Bakrid date follows the official DPR report of the 26 May amendment. PDF page 5. Official source
Gazetted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Central government administrative offices in Delhi/New Delhi only; not the Delhi state, private-business or bank calendar. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Official Goa Gazette Series II No.28, 2025, archived official publication. Notification 37/8/2025-GAD-III/4171 dated 30 September 2025 and Saka-year corrigendum 7 October. Annexure I office closures; II special employee leave (offices functional); III two restricted days; IV specified commercial/industrial holidays; V bank holidays. Moon-dependent dates provisional. No special-leave substitute day inferred. Also in Annexure IV commercial/industrial holiday list; casual/daily-rated paid entitlement requires service on preceding and succeeding working days. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Gujarat GAD notification GS/22/2025/JSR/2025/509/GH, 27 November 2025, Part I, copy published by Gujarat Technological University. State offices, undertakings, boards, corporations and panchayats. Sunday exclusions are observances, not additional holidays. Part II permits two optional days with advance approval. Bank/NI Act Part III not imported; Muslim dates remain provisional. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
16 December 2025 Schedule I/II including weekend occasions. Schedule IV special days are not closures. Bank/NI Act coverage is not inferred from office entitlement. Bakrid amended to 28 May by the Haryana official release. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Official state portal 2026 gazetted/restricted table, including women-employee and municipal-limits qualifications. Bank calendar not inferred. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
J&K GAD Order 1894-JK(GAD), 12 December 2025: Annexure A for UT government offices and educational institutions; Annexure B provincial/local/restricted scopes retained. School vacation periods not inferred. All Muslim dates are subject to moon sighting. NI Act dates are recorded only when also listed in Order 1895-JK(GAD), 12 December 2025. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Jharkhand Gazette 542, 15 December 2025, notification 7244 of 10 December; government notification copy hosted by SGC Services. Schedule 1 NI Act holidays; Schedule 2 executive government/revenue office closures; Schedule 3 bank closing only. Secretariat/attached offices retain five-day and field offices six-day working weeks. Sunday exceptions apply only to establishments normally working Sundays. Muslim dates subject to moon sighting. No school vacations inferred; later amendment completeness pending. Bakrid amended to 28 May by official notification 3453 dated 25 May 2026. PDF page 3. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Karnataka DPAR 16 HHL 2025, 17 November 2025, signed notification copy, English pages 6-10. Notification I office holidays; Notification II NI Act; Kodagu local holidays separate. Offices close on second/fourth Saturdays and Sundays, not every Saturday. Two restricted holidays require approval. Education department issues a separate schedule. Muslim dates provisional. Official source
Public · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Kerala state public-office calendar; bank entitlement is separately flagged from the NI Act list. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Ladakh GAD Order 530-LA(GAD), 14 November 2025, signed government notification copy. Annexure A public holidays for UT government offices and educational institutions; B local only; C two restricted employee days; D banks. Moon-dependent starred dates provisional. Vacation periods not inferred. Official source
Public · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Maharashtra notification coverage; individual employers and essential services may differ. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Meghalaya GAA.78/2025/23, 21 October 2025, archived official signed notification. Annexure I government offices, revenue/magisterial courts and educational institutions; Annexure II NI Act banks excludes 27 December. Two restricted employee days. Undated district local holidays not inferred; Rev Thomas Jones Day confined to seven named districts. Muslim dates provisional. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
G.O.Ms.No.73, 11 November 2025, Appendix I government offices/institutions. Mahe, Yanam and Puducherry/Karaikal differences are labelled local. Bank and restricted appendices pending; later Muharram and election notices remain to be integrated. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Punjab Personnel notification 06/01/2025-2PP3/781, 26 November 2025, archived official bilingual PDF, all nine pages reviewed. Public offices under Punjab Government; all Saturdays and Sundays closed. 31 dated public entries and 27 restricted list items (last item spans two dates). Two restricted days per employee. Guru Gobind Singh birthday explicitly awaits a separate announcement; no date inferred. Up to four second-half-day procession leave occasions require authority records; no dates/hours inferred for those permissions. Raksha Bandhan 28 August is mentioned, not declared a full holiday. Separate bank/NI Act and school schedules not verified. Muslim dates provisional; later amendments pending. PDF page 6. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
16 October 2025 state public-holiday table, page 1. Restricted list and later amendments pending. Moon-dependent dates remain provisional. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Gazette 391, 10 October 2025 notification. Government offices, PSUs and educational institutions. Multi-day holidays expanded into dated entries without inventing substitute days. School breaks are not inferred. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Government of Tamil Nadu G.O.(Ms.)708, 11 November 2025, signed government notification copy. Government offices, state undertakings/corporations/boards and commercial/co-operative banks; 1 April is bank-only. All Saturdays/Sundays closed for government offices. Muslim dates remain provisional pending local confirmation; no school breaks inferred. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Official Telangana 2026 portal: red general and green optional classifications transcribed separately. Office schedule only; bank and school breaks not inferred. Moon-dependent dates and later amendments remain pending. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
UP Extraordinary Gazette, 17 November 2025, notification 671/three-2025-39(2)-2016, government notification copy including December amendment removing 5 January Guru Gobind Singh executive holiday. General NI Act, restricted leave and bank closing remain separate. Executive holiday 24 November does not apply to offices following a five-day week. Muslim dates depend on local moon sighting. Additional Holi closure 3 March is supported by the official 27 February 2026 press release; 28 February is a compensating working Saturday. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Uttarakhand GAD signed notification 24 December 2025, GAD-GEN/GEN/28/2025-XXXI-A-1, I/356133/2025; government notification copy hosted by Amar Ujala. Schedule 1 public office holidays explicitly excludes banks/treasuries; Schedule 4 is the separate NI Act bank/treasury list. Schedule 2 is public only outside five-day-week offices and restricted leave within them. Two restricted days from Schedule 3. District magistrates may notify up to three local holidays, with five-day-week offices excluded; actual local dates not inferred. Starred Muslim dates follow local moon sighting automatically and remain provisional. School vacations and later amendments pending. PDF page 1 and 4. Present in both Schedule 1 office and Schedule 4 NI Act bank lists. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Notification 4188-F(P2), 27 November 2025, Lists I-III. NI Act, state-office, local and sectional coverage distinguished. Weekly Sunday closures are not separately expanded. Karam Puja date awaits a later notice; lunar amendments remain pending. List I, NI Act public holidays. Saturday-marked holidays apply to offices where Saturday is not a full holiday. Official source
Missing entries do not establish that a jurisdiction has no holiday. Check its calendar for pending official dates and local exceptions.
Holiday administration follows the applicable government, state/UT and institution calendar. Festival identities and closure dates are recorded separately.
Check the coverage label: central offices, state offices and private employers may follow different schedules. Restricted leave requires eligibility and approval.
Bank-only closing days are separate from public-office holidays. Follow the relevant NI Act notification and your branch schedule; do not treat every gazetted or school holiday as a bank closure.
Use the named KVS group for the available inclusive break dates. Board, institution, station classification and emergency orders can change school calendars.
Choose the destination state/UT and year before planning. Lunar dates and future notifications can change. The default Saturday/Sunday weekend is an assumption, not a universal Indian working week.
No. Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti are the national anchors. Central-office and state notifications apply to their stated establishments; private workplaces must check their own arrangements.
Use the selected jurisdiction. In 2026 Holi is 3 March in Maharashtra and 4 March for Delhi central offices. Kerala Vijayadasami is 21 October, while Delhi and Maharashtra list Dussehra on 20 October.
Only dates supported by checked official evidence are confirmed here. Moon-dependent published dates remain provisional unless a later authoritative announcement settles the closure. Future estimates are not announcements.
No. They are optional leave for eligible employees under the applicable notification. They are excluded from general public-closure long weekends.
No substitute day is inferred. The DoPT memorandum does not grant a substitute just because a festival falls on a weekly off. Kerala 28 May 2026 is an explicitly announced additional Bakrid holiday, not a general substitute rule.
Only the named KVS school groups and published 2026/2027 breaks are included. They do not represent every school in Delhi, Maharashtra or Kerala.
Government of India, DoPT: DoPT OM 12/2/2023-JCA, 3 July 2025; 2026 central-office holidays
Government of India, DoPT: 9 April 2026 memorandum: Ambedkar birthday closure