In August, both private and public sector bank employees will take advantage of a bevy of holidays as the festive season slowly ramps up. For bank employees, the month is jam-packed with holidays with 6 weekend days, 1 national holiday, and 13 local holidays.
The list of all bank holidays is available on the website of the Reserve Bank of India, the nation's central bank. The Negotiable Instruments Act Holiday, Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday, and Banks' Closing of Accounts Holiday all play a role in determining the list of bank holidays.
However, only a few parts of the country celebrate the 13 regional holidays, thus bank employees are unable to celebrate each one separately. Additionally, the 13 holidays do include the same occasion being two holidays as they may be celebrated on different dates in different areas of the country.
Bank customers can still access online banking services through the web portals and mobile applications of their respective banks even while banks are physically closed on bank holidays. However, we have listed below the full list of bank holidays so you can plan your monthly transactions without any trouble.
RBI Holidays List
August 1: Drukpa Tshe-zi — Gangtok
August 7: First Sunday
August 8: Muharram (Ashura) — Jammu, Srinagar
August 9: Muharram (Ashura) — Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur and Ranchi
August 11: Raksha Bandhan — Ahmedadabad, Bhopal, Dehradun, Jaipur, and Shimla
August 12: Raksha Bandhan — Kanpur, and Lucknow
August 13: Patriot’s Day — Imphal
August 13: Second Saturday
August 14: Second Sunday
August 15: Independence Day — Pan-India
August 16: Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) — Belapur, Mumbai, and Nagpur
August 18: Janmashtami — Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Kanpur and Lucknow
August 19: Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/ Krishna Jayanthi — Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gangtok, Jaipur, Jammu, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong and Shimla
August 20: Sri Krishna Ashtami — Hyderabad
August 21: Third Sunday
August 27: Fourth Saturday
August 28: Fourth Sunday
August 29: Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva — Guwahati
August 31: Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha)/Ganesh Chaturthi/ Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata/ Vinayakar Chathurthi — Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur and Panaji
