Bank Holidays October 2021: Banks to Remain Closed For up to 21 Days Next Month | Full List

Bank Holidays October 2021: As per the RBI calendar, there are 14 bank holidays in October 2021 apart from weekends. 

Bank Holidays: With the several festivals in the offing, the private and public sector banks across the country will remain closed for 21 days, , including second Saturdays and Sundays next month i.e in October 2021. However, the holidays are not uniform in nature which means that the list varies state-to-state across the country depending upon specific festivals observed in some states/UTs.

As per the RBI calendar, there are 14 bank holidays in October 2021 apart from weekends. The central bank has categorised holidays under three categories — Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act, and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks’ Closing of Accounts.

Full list of bank holidays in October 2021:

• 1 October 2021- Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts (Sikkim)
• 2 October 2021 – Gandhi Jayanti (Pan India)
• 3 October 2021 – Sunday
• 6 October 2021 – Mahalaya Amavasye (West Bengal, Tripura, Karnataka)
• 7 October 2021 – Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi (Tripura, West Bengal, Meghalaya)
• 9 October 2021 – 2nd Saturday
• 10 October 2021 – Sunday
• 12 October 2021 – Durga Puja (Maha Saptami) / (West Bengal, Tripura)
• 13 October 2021 – Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami) / (West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Manipur, Tripura, Assam )
• 14 October 2021 – Durga Puja/Dussehra /Ayutha Pooja (West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Puducherry, Odisha, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Kerala, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Bihar, Assam)
• 15 October 2021 – Durga Puja/Dasara/Dusshera (Vijaya Dashmi) / (National except for Manipur, Himachal Pradesh)
• 16 October 2021 – Durga Puja (Dasain) / (Sikkim)
• 17 October 2021 – Sunday
• 18 October 2021 – Kati Bihu (Assam)
• 19 October 2021 – Id-E-Milad/Eid-e-Miladunnabi/Milad-i-Sherif/Baravafat (Nation except for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu, Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand )
• 20 October 2021 – Maharishi Valmiki’s Birthday/Lakshmi Puja/Id-E-Milad (Tripura, Punjab, West Bengal, Karnataka, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
• 22 October 2021 – Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Jammu and Kashmir )
• 23 October 2021 – 4th Saturday
• 24 October 2021 – Sunday

List of weekend offs in October 2021

• 3 October 2021 – Sunday
• 9 October 2021 – 2nd Saturday
• 10 October 2021 – Sunday
• 17 October 2021 – Sunday
• 23 October 2021 – 4th Saturday
• 24 October 2021 – Sunday