Banks to remain shut for 9 days straight from tomorrow. Check full list here.

Before planning to visit bank branches in the upcoming days, you must know that all public and private sector lenders across the country will remain shut for more than ten days (including weekends and festivals), starting from Wednesday. Notably, various festivals such as—Durga Puja, Navratri, Dussehra, Id-E-Milad etc will be observed in the month of October, so the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) calendar has a long list of holidays.

The banking regulator has notified the holidays for lenders under three brackets — the Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday, Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday, and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. All banks including the public sector, private sector, foreign banks, cooperative banks, and regional banks across the country will remain closed on these notified holidays.

According to the RBI list, all banks remain closed on Republic Day (January 26), Independence Day (August 15), and Gandhi Jayanti (October 2), Christmas Day (December 25). Banks also remain shut on festivals including Diwali, Christmas, Eid, Guru Nanak Jayanthi, Good Friday. On the second and fourth Saturdays of every month, the private and public sector banks across the country remain closed. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has also made it compulsory for banks to remain shut on Sundays.

Here is a complete list of holidays