Bank holidays in March 2026 in India, based on the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) calendar and recent reports. Banks remain closed on:
- All Sundays (national weekly off): March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29.
- Second and fourth Saturdays (as per RBI rules for banks): March 14 (2nd Saturday) and March 28 (4th Saturday).
Additionally, there are festival and regional holidays, which vary by state/city. The total often comes to around 18 days of closures nationwide when including weekends and these observances.
Key festival-related bank holidays in March 2026 include:
- March 2 (Monday) — Holika Dahan (regional, e.g., in parts of Uttar Pradesh like Kanpur and Lucknow).
- March 3 (Tuesday) — Holi/Holika Dahan (in states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Goa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh).
- March 4 (Wednesday) — Holi (main day, widely observed; banks closed in many states including Odisha, Tripura, Gujarat, Mizoram, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh).
- March 19 (Thursday) — Ugadi/Gudi Padwa (regional, in states like Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Maharashtra).
- March 21 (Saturday) — Id-ul-Fitr (Eid/Ramzan Id, tentative date; observed in many states including Assam, Gujarat, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Nagaland, West Bengal, Delhi, Goa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya).
- March 27 (Friday) or nearby — Ram Navami (in various states; some sources list March 27 or 26/28 depending on regional observance).
- March 3 or 4 — Holi/Dola Purnima (Odisha observes Holi/Doljatra around these dates; March 4 is commonly listed as a bank holiday in Odisha for Holi).
- March 21 — Id-ul-Fitr (banks closed in Odisha for this).
- Possibly March 5 — Panchayatiraj Divas (state-specific, but not always a full bank holiday nationwide)