Janmashtami 2023: Bank holiday on September 6 or 7? Check for your city
On the occasion of Janmashtami, banks in some parts of the country will observe holiday on September 6, and others, a day later, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) holiday list. Therefore, banks in some states will be closed on Wednesday, while others will be non-functional on Thursday.
States where branches are closed on September 6
State | RBI Regional Office |
Odisha | Bhubaneswar |
Tamil Nadu | Chennai |
Andhra Pradesh | Hyderabad |
Bihar | Patna |
States where branches are closed on September 7
State | RBI Regional Office |
Gujarat | Ahmedabad |
Chandigarh (UT) | Chandigarh |
Uttarakhand | Dehradun |
Sikkim | Gangtok |
Telangana | Hyderabad |
Rajasthan | Jaipur |
Jammu and Kashmir (UT) | Jammu, Srinagar |
Uttar Pradesh | Kanpur, Lucknow |
Chhattisgarh | Raipur |
Jharkhand | Ranchi |
Meghalaya | Shillong |
Himachal Pradesh | Shimla |
Other bank holidays in September
Bank holidays will be observed on the following dates as well; branches will be non-operational on account of festivals, the G20 Summit, and second/fourth Saturdays, and Sundays.
September 3: Sunday
September 8: G20 Summit (New Delhi)
September 9: Second Saturday
September 10: Sunday
September 17: Sunday
September 18: Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata/Vinayaka Chaturthi (Bengaluru, Hyderabad)
September 19: Ganesh Chaturthi/Samvatsari (Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji)
September 20: Day 2 of Ganesh Chaturthi/Nuakhai (Bhubaneswar, Panaji)
September 22: Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day (Kochi, Srinagar)
September 23: Maharaja Hari Singh birth anniversary (Jammu, Srinagar); Fourth Saturday
September 24: Sunday
September 25: Janmostav of Srimanata Sankardeva (Guwahati)
September 27: Milad-i-Sharif (Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram)
September 28: Eid-e-Milad (Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Imphal, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi)
September 29: Indrajatra/Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Gangtok, Jammu, Srinagar)