Bank Holidays In May 2022: Check Complete List Here

| Published: Monday, April 25, 2022, 11:41 [IST]

The month of May is ahead, and in the financial market, it is important to first look at the impending bank holidays for the month. Prior checking of bank holidays is a wise strategy to avoid the headaches of visiting the bank on a specific holiday, and it is a good approach to schedule your day appropriately if you need to do crucial banking tasks. Bank holidays are classified by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) into three categories: Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks' Closing of Accounts. And here we shall discuss bank holidays that come under the Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act category of RBI as well as all Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.

Bank Holidays In May 2022

Date	Day	Occasion	Banks to remain shut-in
1st May 2022	Sunday	Weekend	Across the country
2nd May 2022	Monday	Ramjan-Eid (Eid-UI-Fitra)	Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram
3rd May 2022	Tuesday	Bhagvan Shree Parshuram Jayanti/Ramjan-Eid (Eid-UI-Fitra)/Basava Jayanti/Akshaya Tritiya	Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla and Srinagar
8th May 2022	Sunday	Weekend	Across the country
9th May 2022	Monday	Birthday of Rabindranath Tagore	Kolkata
14th May 2022	Saturday	Second Saturday	Across the country
15th May 2022	Sunday	Weekend	Across the country
16th May 2022	Monday	Buddha Purnima	Agartala, Belapur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla and Srinagar
22nd May 2022	Sunday	Weekend	Across the country
28th May 2022	Saturday	Fourth Saturday	Across the country
29th May 2022	Sunday	Weekend	Across the country