Bank Holidays March 2026: If you have any important bank related work left, then postponing it may cause you problems. Because from tomorrow for the next five days, banks are going to remain closed in different cities due to various reasons. In such a situation, it would be better if you prepare for bank related work in advance.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releases the list of holidays in advance. Which shows that on which days banking services will be affected in which cities. Let us know, why there is a bank holiday in the coming days?

Banking services affected due to weekly holiday

Banks are going to remain closed for two consecutive days in the last days of February. February 28 is the fourth Saturday of the month, due to which bank branches will remain closed across the country. Immediately after this, due to March 1 being a Sunday, banking services will be affected again.

In such a situation, customers should complete the important banking work before these holidays, so that there is no inconvenience.

March 2nd holiday

After two consecutive days of weekly holiday, banks are going to remain closed on March 2 also. However, there will be holiday only in two cities. A decision has been taken to close banks in Kanpur and Lucknow on the occasion of Holika Dahan. Barring these two cities, banks will remain open and work regularly in the rest of the country.

Banking services affected in many cities on March 3 and 4

Due to various Holi events, banks will remain closed in many cities on March 3 and 4. Due to Dol Jatra, Dhulandi and Holika Dahan, banking services will remain closed in Bhopal, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur and Patna etc.

The next day on March 4, there will be a bank holiday in many cities on the occasion of Holi. Banks are going to remain closed in cities like Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, New Delhi, Raipur etc.

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March Bank Holidays 2026: The month of March is about to start and with it the new calendar of bank holidays will also come into effect. Other festivals including Holi are also coming in March. In such a situation, if you are preparing to do any important work related to the bank, then it would be better to first know on which days the banks will be closed in March.

Banking services may remain affected for several days due to festivals and weekly holidays in different states and cities. Therefore, before making plans, it is important to look at the list of holidays. Let us know about the bank holidays of March….

1. Bank holiday due to Holi

Banks will remain closed in Kanpur and Lucknow on the occasion of Holika Dahan on March 2. After this, due to festivals like Dol Jatra, Dhulandi and Holika Dahan on March 3, banking services will be affected in Belapur, Bhopal, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Ranchi and Vijayawada.

On March 4 also, due to Holi, banks will remain closed in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, New Delhi, Raipur, Shillong and Shimla. Apart from this, there will be a bank holiday in Aizawl on 13th March due to Chapchar Kut festival.

2. Banks will remain closed in Jammu and Srinagar on the occasion of Shab-e-Qadr on March 17. After this, due to Gudi Padwa, Telugu New Year Day and first Navratri on March 19, banking services will be affected in many cities including Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Imphal, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji and Vijayawada.

On March 20, banks are going to remain closed in Jammu, Srinagar, Kochi, Trivandrum and Vijayawada due to Ramzan and Jumat-ul-Vida.

On March 21, due to Ramzan-Eid and Sarhul, there will be a bank holiday in almost the entire country except Kochi, Vijayawada, Trivandrum and Shimla. Apart from this, on the occasion of Ram Navami on March 26, banks will remain closed in many cities including Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow and Ranchi.

Apart from this, banks are going to remain closed in many cities on 27th March due to Ram Navami and 31st March due to various reasons. If you live in these cities, then you must check the list of holidays once before going to the bank. It should not happen that you reach the bank branch and the bank is closed. In such a situation you may have to face problems.

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