Public holidays

Plan time off and avoid surprise closures: choose a country to see its public holidays for the year, which ones are still to come, how many days until the next one, and which apply only in some regions.

Holidays come from Nager.Date, an open-source public holiday database covering more than 100 countries and maintained with contributions from people in those countries. Each holiday shows its local name, the weekday it falls on, and whether it is national or regional.

Governments sometimes add, move or cancel holidays at short notice. Treat this calendar as a planning aid and confirm important dates with your employer or official government announcements.

For India, SmartTools shows the official 2026 list from the Department of Personnel & Training’s Office Memorandum F.No.12/2/2023-JCA dated 3 July 2025: 17 compulsory holidays and 34 restricted holidays for Central Government administrative offices in Delhi and New Delhi. It is built into the page, so nothing is requested.

Central Government offices elsewhere add three holidays chosen by their State coordination committee, and state governments publish their own lists. Dates for Id-ul-Fitr, Id-ul-Zuha, Muharram and Id-e-Milad can move depending on the sighting of the moon.

The States tab lists the 2026 holidays from state governments’ own notifications: Delhi (GAD Notification No. F.53/812/GAD/CN/2025), Gujarat (GAD Notification No. GS/22/2025/JSR/2025/509/GH, with its 22 May 2026 change to Bakri Eid), Karnataka (DPAR Notification-I dated 17 November 2025), Kerala (G.O.(P) No. 14/2025/GAD, Kerala Gazette), Maharashtra (GAD Notification No. PHD-1125/C.R.199/Japuk (29), including Bhaubeej), Tamil Nadu (G.O.(Ms.) No. 708, Public (Miscellaneous) Department), Uttar Pradesh (the Secretariat’s public and restricted holiday list) and West Bengal (Finance Department Notification No. 4188-F(P2), plus its 2026 additions for the Assembly election poll days and Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 125th birth anniversary). Each list keeps the notification’s own groups — for example West Bengal’s public holidays, office closures and sectional holidays — and flags dates that depend on the moon or apply only to banks.

Every date was typed in from the official document and checked automatically against the weekday printed beside it. Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka publish their lists in Hindi and Kannada; the holiday names are translated, the dates are as printed. Governments often move moon-dependent festivals after the list is printed — in 2026 most states moved Bakrid from 27 to 28 May. SmartTools applies a change only when it has read the official order, and shows it under the list. For other moon-dependent dates it compares the state’s list with RBI’s bank holidays for the same state and flags any date RBI has moved, or any extra day RBI has added for the same festival. More states will be added as their notifications are verified.

The Banks tab shows the bank holidays the Reserve Bank of India declares under the Negotiable Instruments Act for each of its 34 regional offices — most state capitals plus cities such as Mumbai, Nagpur, Kanpur and Kochi. Pick your city to see the list and whether banks there are open today — counting Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays, when banks also close.

The list is copied from rbi.org.in into the page when SmartTools is built, so choosing a city sends nothing. RBI adds and moves dates during the year (for local elections, for example), so the page shows the date it was retrieved; check with your branch before a deadline. Where several festivals fall on the same date, RBI names them together, so the name may include festivals not celebrated in your city. If your state has no RBI office in the list (Punjab and Haryana, for example), your state government’s notification decides.

The long-weekend finder looks for nationwide holidays next to a Saturday or Sunday, and shows where taking one or two days of leave turns a single holiday into a four- or five-day break. It assumes a Monday-to-Friday working week.

A holiday observed only in some states, provinces or regions of a country — for example St Andrew’s Day in Scotland but not the rest of the UK.

Yes. For India, choose the Banks tab and your city for RBI’s official bank holidays. For other countries, days the source marks as bank holidays are labelled.

Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal so far, each from the state’s official 2026 notification. Bank holidays are available for 34 cities on the Banks tab.

In India, banks are open on the first, third and fifth Saturdays and closed on the second and fourth Saturdays and every Sunday. The Banks tab counts these when it says whether banks are open today.

Yes, for countries and years you have already opened. The list is saved on your device for 30 days.