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.
New Year's Day in India. Delhi: 2026-01-01 (restricted, 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.
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Andaman and Nicobar Gazette extraordinary 95 and 96, 12 November 2025; notifications 90/2025 and 91/2025. Sixteen NI Act public holidays; employees may choose two restricted days. Starred Muslim dates depend on moon sighting. No school vacations or industrial coverage inferred. Official source
Optional · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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. Up to five optional holidays with approval. Dates on Sunday/second Saturday are listed separately in Annexure II(A); no substitute inferred. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
GA-10/2015, 26 August 2025, gazetted Annexure I and explicitly declared Itanagar local day. Government offices/institutions only; banks excluded. Restricted Annexure II and district-selected local dates remain pending import. Official source
Optional · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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 6. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Central government administrative offices in Delhi/New Delhi only; not the Delhi state, private-business or bank calendar. Restricted/optional leave for eligible employees only; offices do not close universally. Eligible central employees may choose two restricted holidays; consult the complete official list. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Government of NCT of Delhi offices only, notification 4 December 2025: 18 gazetted and 33 restricted entries. Separate from central offices, banks and private employers. Lunar amendments remain pending; central Bakrid amendment is not applied to GNCTD without GNCTD evidence. GNCTD employees may choose two restricted holidays. Combined labels retained in coverage notes; no universal closure. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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. Official source
Optional · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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. Part II notified optional leave only; two days with approval. Weekend-excluded optional occasions are not imported. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Official state portal 2026 gazetted/restricted table, including women-employee and municipal-limits qualifications. Bank calendar not inferred. Eligible state employees only. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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
Optional · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Madhya Pradesh Extraordinary Gazette 364, 29 December 2025, F 3-1-2025-1-4; government Gazette copy hosted by Internet Archive. General government office/institution list and NI Act bank/treasury list remain distinct. Three optional days per government employee from 63 listed; not office closures. Sunday exclusions do not create substitutes. Muslim dates provisional; school vacations and later amendments not established. Optional item 28 on 5 June is Gadir-e-Khum; item 30 on 24 June includes Yom-e-Ashura as printed. Lunar dates remain provisional; no general closure inferred. Optional Sunday exclusions are listed on page 4 and confer no additional optional entitlement. PDF page 3. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
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
NIC Mizoram 2026 government-office calendar, 28 public and 25 restricted entries. Saturdays and Sundays closed; private and bank arrangements not inferred. Lunar amendments remain pending. Official source
Gazetted · regional coverage · Confirmed — source checked
Nagaland Gazette 15 December 2025, printed pages 473-477 (PDF pages 12-16). Home notification GAB/GEN/16/2010 (Pt), 29 October 2025. Annexure I has 24 general office holiday dates; Annexure II has 57 restricted occasions spanning 65 dates, maximum three employee days; Annexure III has 16 NI Act dates plus 1 April bank closing. Christmas government offices 23-31 December; NI Act 24-27 December only. No Easter Saturday/Sunday general closure, automatic festival district closure, school vacation, substitute day or weekly pattern inferred. Muslim dates provisional except the directly supported Bakrid amendment. PDF page 13 and 16. 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
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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 7. 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
Optional · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
Official Tripura State Portal 2026 general and restricted list. Government calendar only; bank and private-employer coverage not inferred. Restricted leave is not an office closure. Source lists Maha Saptami on 17 October; retained as published, provisionally pending notification cross-check. Moon-dependent dates provisional; no inferred substitutes. Official source
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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
Restricted · sector coverage · Confirmed — source checked · Conditional entitlement
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 3. 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