Bank Holidays in March 2025: Complete List Of State-Wise Bank Holidays

India: March, being the last month of the financial year, is hectic not just in the world of business. Interestingly, even in terms of festivals, March is a busy month this year, and there are 14 bank holidays or non-working days as per the updated list of official holidays from the Reserve Bank of India.

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The list of March 2025 Bank Holidays may, however, differ slightly from state to state, and it also impacts Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and account closure limits for public and commercial banks in India. The RBI list of holidays also includes bank holidays on the second and fourth Saturday.

One very interesting aspect of the bank holidays for the March 2025 list is that the banks are shut on March 31, the last working day of the financial year on account of Id-Ul-Fitr

Check the Full List of March 2025 Bank Holidays In India

March Holidays	Date	Day	Occasion	States where banks are closed
1.	March 2	Sunday	Routine weekly holiday	All states
2.	March 7	Friday	Chapchar Kut	Mizoram
3.	March 8	Saturday	Routine Second Saturday	All states
4.	March 9	Sunday	Routine weekly holiday	All states
5.	March 13	Thursday	Holika Dahan, Attukal Pongala	Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Kerala, Dehradun, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram
6.	March 14	Friday	Holi (Also celebrated as Dol Jatra/ Dhuleti/ Dhulandi/)	Most states shut except Tripura, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Kerala, and Nagaland; include Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar
7.	March 15	Saturday	Holi/Yaosang 2nd Day	Agartala, Bhubaneshwar, Imphal,Patna
8.	March 16	Sunday	Routine weekly holiday	All states
9.	March 22	Saturday	Fourth Saturday & Bihar Diwas	All States, Bihar
10.	March 23	Sunday	Routine weekly holiday	All states
11.	March 27	Thursday	Shab-I-Qadr	Jammu, Srinagar
12.	March 28	Friday	Jumat-ul-Vida	Jammu & Kashmir
13.	March 30	Sunday	Routine weekly holiday	All states
14.	March 31	Monday	Id-Ul-Fitr	Holiday across all states except Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh

Source: Reserve Bank Of India..

Banks to be shut on April 1

According to the holiday calendar released by RBI, banks will be shut on April 1 (Tuesday) in most states on account of the annual closing. Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, West Bengal, and Himachal Pradesh are the only exceptions.

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