Bank Holiday: Banks to remain closed for 16 days in November, Check the RBI holiday list..
Bank Holidays in November 2026: November is a month filled with festivals. It includes occasions such as Diwali, Govardhan Puja, Bhai Dooj, Chhath Puja, and Guru Nanak Jayanti. Consequently, there will be several bank holidays. According to the RBI holiday calendar, banks will remain closed for 16 days across various cities in the country. If you have any urgent banking tasks to complete in November, it would be wise to finish them in advance. Please note that bank holidays are not uniform across all states; they vary by city depending on local festivals and specific occasions.
Additionally, banks remain closed on Sundays, as well as on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month. Customers of banks like SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, and Axis Bank should check the holiday list before visiting a branch. Find out below when and where banks will be closed next month...
7 Weekend Holidays in November
Banks will be closed for 5 Sundays and 2 Saturdays this month, totaling 7 days of holidays nationwide. The Sundays in November fall on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, while the second and fourth Saturdays fall on the 14th and 28th. Furthermore, banks will remain closed in various states due to several festivals, including Diwali and Chhath.
When will banks be closed in November?
On November 9, banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Gangtok, Imphal, Jaipur, Kanpur, and Lucknow. This day will see holidays for festivals associated with Diwali, including Lakshmi Puja, Govardhan Puja, and Vishwakarma Diwas.
On November 10, banks will be closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Gangtok, Mumbai, and Nagpur. In these cities, banks will remain closed on account of Bali Pratipada, Govardhan Puja, Lakshmi Puja, and the Vikram Samvat New Year. On November 11, banks will remain closed in Gangtok, Imphal, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Shimla. This day marks holidays for Bhai Dooj, Ningol Chakouba, Lakshmi Puja, and Chitragupta Jayanti.
In Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, banks will remain closed on November 13 due to the Wangala Festival.
Banks will be closed in Bihar and Jharkhand on November 16, as this day coincides with Chhath Puja in Patna and Ranchi.
On November 20, banks in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, will remain closed on account of Igas-Bagwal.
On November 23, bank branches in Shillong, Meghalaya, will observe a holiday for Seng Kut Snem.
On November 24, banks will remain closed in several cities due to Guru Nanak Jayanti, Kartik Purnima, and Rahas Purnima. These cities include Aizawl, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jammu, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, and Srinagar.
On November 27, banks in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, will remain closed for Kanakadasa Jayanti.
Therefore, be sure to check the list of bank holidays for your city before visiting a bank branch. However, there is no need to worry; you can still use services like online banking, mobile banking, and ATMs even when bank branches are closed.
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