Bank Holidays In October: Check Full List

There are a couple of bank holidays this month given the festivities lined up ahead. All of the facilities specific to a bank branch such as deposit and withdrawal at bank branch will not be available. As 6 days of the month have already passed, we would also mention that banks were shut on October 1 in Gangtok owing to half yearly closing of bank account. October 2 was also a gazetted holiday for Gandhi Jayanti all across the country.

Bank Holidays In October: Check Full List

Here is the complete RBI extracted list on bank holidays in October 2021:

Bank holiday	Date
Half Yearly Closing of Bank Accounts	1/10
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti	2/10
Mahalaya Amavasye	6/10
Mera Chaoren Houba of Lainingthou Sanamahi	7/10
Durga Puja (Maha Saptami)	12/10
Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami)	13/10
Durga Puja/Dussehra (Maha Navami)/Ayutha Pooja	14/10
Durga Puja/Dasara/Dusshera (Vijaya Dashmi)	15/10
Durga Puja (Dasain)	16/10
Kati Bihu	18/10
Id-E-Milad/Eid-e-Miladunnabi/Milad-i-Sherif (Prophet Mohammad's Birthday)/Baravafat	19/10
Maharishi Valmiki's Birthday/Lakshmi Puja/Id-E-Milad	20/10
Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi	22/10
Accession Day	26/10

Further as on some days banks are not shut all across here are given the cities where banks will be closed for a particular holiday:

October 1 holiday in Gangtok

October 2-all across the country
October 6- Agartala, Bengaluru, Kolkata
October 7-Imphal
October 12- Agartala, Kolkata
October 13- Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi
October 14- Agartala, Bengaluru, Chennai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong, Thiruvananthapuram
October 15- at majority of the places except Imphal and Shimla
October 16-Gangtok
October 18- Guwahati
October 19- in most of the cities
October 20-Agartala, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Shimla
October 22-Jammu and Srinagar
October 26- Jammu and Srinagar