New Delhi: Banks across several cities will be closed for two days this week, though not consecutively. Banks will be closed on account of Mahashivratri 2025 and regional holiday this week.
Banks in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu- Srinagar, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Himachal Pradesh will be closed on account of Mahashivratri 2025 on February 26. In Gangtok, bank branches will be closed on February 28 for Losar festival.
– Banks branches across the country remains closed for a total of 14 days –including local holidays and that of weekends in the month of February 2025. However, banking activities on mobile and internet will remain uninterrupted, though several bank branches will remain closed on account of bank holidays.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bank holidays calendar list has given full details of states and days when bank branches will be closed in the month of February 2025.
Furthermore, you must note that the banks will for all the days consecutively in all states or regions. This is the total number of days when banks in different parts of the country will remain closed for state-observed holidays. For instance banks will be closed for , but in it will
Saraswati Puja: February 3 (Agartala)
Thai Poosam/Municipal Corporation General Election 2025: February 11 (Chennai/Raipur)
Sant Ravidas Jayanti/Guru Ravi Das’s Birthday/General Election to Local Councils 2025: February 12 (Aizawl/Kanpur/Lucknow/Shimla)
Lui-Ngai-Ni: February 15 (Imphal)
Statehood Day/State Day: February 20 (Aizawl/Itanagar)
Mahashivratri: February 26 (Gujarat, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana)
Losar: February 28 (Gangtok)
Reserve Bank of India places its Holidays under three brackets –Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday; and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. However, it must be noted that the bank holidays vary in various states as well not observed by all the banking companies. Banking holidays also depend on the festivals being observed in specific states or notification of specific occasions in those states.
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