Banks in India are closed on 2nd and 4th Saturday and Sundays. Besides these regular holidays, they are also closed on national holidays and state-specific public holidays. Apart from the list of holidays released by the Reserve Bank of India, banks can also include other holidays in their holiday calendar. Here, check the list of bank holidays in August 2024 in India.
List of Bank Holidays in August 2024
| Date | Day | Holiday Description | Regional Office |
| 3rd August 2024 | Saturday | Ker Puja | Agartala |
| 8th August 2024 | Thursday | Tendong Lho Rum Faat | Gangtok |
| 13th August 2024 | Tuesday | Patriot’s Day | Imphal |
| 15th August 2024 | Thursday | Independence Day/Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) | Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Kohima, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 19th August 2024 | Monday | Raksha Bandhan/Jhulana Purnima/Birthday of Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur | Agartala, Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Shimla |
| 20th August 2024 | Tuesday | Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi | Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 26th August 2024 | Monday | Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi | Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar |
Note: It is to be noted that all 2nd and 4th Saturday and Sundays are bank holidays.
List of Bank Holidays in August 2023
|
Date |
Day | Holiday Description |
Regional Office |
| 8th August 2023 | Tuesday | Tendong Lho Rum Faat | Gangtok |
| 15th August 2023 | Tuesday | Independence Day | Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 16th August 2023 | Wednesday | Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) | Belapur, Mumbai, Nagpur |
| 18th August 2023 | Friday | Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva | Guwahati |
| 28th August 2023 | Monday | First Onam | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 29th August 2023 | Tuesday | Thiruvonam | Thiruvananthapuram |
| 30th August 2023 | Wednesday | Raksha Bandhan | Jaipur, Shimla |
| 31st August 2023 | Friday | Raksha Bandhan/Sree Narayana Guru Jayanthi/Pang-Lhabsol | Gangtok, Kanpur, Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram |
Note: It is to be noted that all 2nd and 4th Saturday and Sundays are bank holidays.
Banking Services Available on Bank Holidays in August 2023
Customers can enjoy banking services uninterruptedly even on bank holidays in August 2019 through the following round the clock operational services:
- Access to Net-banking and Mobile-banking services
- Cheque Drop facility at ATM/other Cheque Drop-boxes
- Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
- ATM Services
- Immediate Payment Service (IMPS)
Most Searched Bank Holidays 2023
List of Bank Holidays in August 2019
In the month of August, banks will be shut due to Independence Day and Eid and a few other state-specific festivals, which listed in the table given below:
| Date | Day | Event | States |
| 12th August 2019 | Monday | Bakri Id (Id-ul-Zuha) | All over India except Odisha, Sikkim, Manipur, Kerala and Goa |
| 13th August 2019 | Tuesday | Patriots’ Day/Bakri Id (Id-ul-Zuha) | Manipur, Jammu & Kashmir |
| 15th August 2019 | Thursday | Independence Day/Rakshabandhan | All over India |
| 17th August 2019 | Saturday | Parsi New Year(Shahenshahi)/Pateti | Gujarat, Maharashtra |
| 23rd August 2019 | Friday | Krishna Jayanthi/Sri Krishna Janmashtami | Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar |
| 24th August 2019 | Saturday | Krishna Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8) | Gujarat, Sikkim, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Himachal Pradesh |