Bank Holiday Today, November 2, 2026: Why SBI, ICICI, HDFC, Other Banks Closed? Check City-Wise List

Banks in some parts of India are going to be closed on Monday, November 2, 2026, due to the Nongkrem Dance celebration. These banks include SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank and Union Bank of India, among others.

Bank Holiday Today

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decides bank holidays every month for Indian banks depending upon state-wise festivals, events and special occasions. Accordingly, RBI has fixed November 2nd as bank holiday in one particular state, which also marks the first special holiday of the month.

Banks will be closed in cities like Shillong today.

It needs to be noted that bank holidays vary from state to state.

And hence, not all banks are closed in the entirety of India.

Accordingly, banks will remain and function as normal in cities like Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, Srinagar, Vijayawada, and Thiruvananthapuram.

Nongkrem Dance 2026:

The Nongkrem dance festival is celebrated during Autumn at Smit, the cultural centre of the Khasi Hills. A five day long religious festival of the Khasis, Ka Pomblang Nongkrem dance is popularly known as Nongkrem dance. Similar to all other festivals of the Meghalaya, Nongkrem Dance Festival is performed to appease the all powerful Goddess Ka Blei Synshar for a rich bumper harvest and prosperity of the people, as per the Meghalaya Government's website.

Furthermore, it added that the Syiem of Khyrim along with the high priest performs the Pomblang ceremony. He offers oblation to a Lei Shyllong; the God of Shyllong peak by sacrificing a cock. An important part of this festival is Pomblang (sacrifice of goats). Then offerings are made to the ancestor and ancestress of the ruling clan to the first uncle to the deity of Shillong peak.