Bank Holidays 2024: Banks Closed For Nine Days From September 14-23? Check City-Wise List

Banks are in for a long holiday due to back-to-back festivals between September 14 to September 23. To be precise, banks will be shut for at least nine days during the said period. However, not all banks will be closed across India as these special holidays vary from city to city. In India, bank holidays are decided by the RBI. Check the city-wise list for upcoming bank holidays.

September 14:

Banks all over India are closed on September 14 due to it being a second Saturday which is a default holiday. Also, in September, parts of India are celebrating Karma Puja/First Onam.

September 15:

With September 15 being a Sunday, banks are generally closed due to the day being a default holiday.

September 16:

Some regions of India are celebrating Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad) (bara vafat) on September 16, hence banks will be closed.

On September 16, banks in cities like Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Srinagar, and Thiruvananthapuram will be closed.

September 17:

Banks will be closed on Tuesday, September 17, due to Indrajatra/Id-e-Milad (Milad-Un-Nabi). Also, the Visarjan of Lord Ganesha will take place on this day.

Banks in cities like Chennai and Gangtok will be closed. The Lord Ganesha visarjan is celebrated with great enthusiasm in Mumbai, and parts of Maharashtra, hence banks here will be closed too.

September 18:

Banks will be closed due to Pang-Lhabsol/Id-E-Milad. Banks in cities like Gangtok and Mumbai will be closed on this day.

The Maharashtra government has declared September 18 as the public holiday, as part of shifting the Eid-e-Milad holiday from September 16, 2024, to September 18, 2024, to avoid a potential clash with Anant Chaturdashi, the concluding day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which falls on September 17.

September 20:

Further, banks will be closed on September 20 due to Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi. Banks in the cities of Jammu and Srinagar will be closed on this day.

September 21:

Meanwhile, banks will also be closed on September 21, the third Saturday of the month which is generally a working day for banks. The reason behind the bank holiday is the occasion of Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day. However, banks will be shut down in the regions of Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.

September 22:

All banks will be closed on September 22, due to Sunday being the default holiday.

September 23:

On this day, banks will be closed due to the celebration of the Birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh Ji. However, bank branches will not be open only places in Jammu and Srinagar.

RBI's holidays are divided into three categories such as -- Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holidays; and Banks' Closing of Accounts. Bank holidays in India 2024, vary from state-to-state and city-to-city.