Bank Holidays Next Week: 9 Days Holiday Alerts! Why SBI, HDFC, ICICI, Banks To Be Closed From October 17-25?

Banks in India are in for a long-holiday week from October 17th to October 25th, due to the celebration of Navratri. The holidays vary from city to city, but Dusshera will lead to major holidays across the country. Banks like SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, Yes Bank, Bank of Baroda, Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank, among others, will be closed accordingly. In total, there are nine holidays in a row stored for bank employees. So, if you are planning to visit bank branches for any financial transactions, check the full list of whether the banks will be open in your city.

Bank Holiday On October 17, 2026:

Banks are closed on October 17th in cities like Agartala for Maha Saptami. Devotees celebrate Maha Saptami during the Shukla Paksha Saptami of the holy Magha month, marking the arrival of Maa Durga Earth.

Bank Holiday On October 18, 2026:

All banks in India will be closed on this day due to Sunday.

Bank Holiday On October 19, 2026:

On October 19th, many states of India will be celebrating Dussehra (Mahashtami)/Maha Navami/Ayutha Pooja/Durga Puja/Vijaya Dashomi/Durga Ashtami.

For this, banks will be closed in cities like Agartala, Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Imphal, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi, and Thiruvananthapuram.

Bank Holiday On October 20, 2026:

While some states will celebrate Dussehra on October 20. As per RBI's holiday list, banks will be closed on this day for Dasara/Dusshera (Vijaya Dashmi) (Aaso sud-10)/Maha Navami, Ayudhapooja/Durga Puja.

City-wise, bank branches will be shut in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, and Vijayawada.

Bank Holiday On October 21, 2026:

Banks will be closed for Vijaya Dasami/Durga Puja (Dasain)/Maha Dashami. The cities include Agartala, Bengaluru, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Shillong, and Thiruvananthapuram.

Bank Holiday On October 22 & October 23, 2026:

Durga Puja (Dasain) will be celebrated in some states for two days straight on October 22 and October 23. Banks will accordingly be shut in cities like Gangtok on both days.

Bank Holiday On October 24 & October 25, 2026:

October 24th is the fourth Saturday of the month, which becomes the last Saturday holiday for all banks in India in October.

All scheduled and non-scheduled banks - public, private, foreign, cooperative, regional rural and local area banks - will observe public holiday on second and fourth Saturdays from September 01, 2015; and will observe full working days on Saturdays other than second and fourth Saturdays (referred to as working Saturdays in the Press Release), as per RBI's guidelines.

Hence, no banks will be open on October 24th, making it the seventh holiday of the week.

As per RBI, payment systems will not be operated on the second and fourth Saturdays but would operate for full day on working Saturdays. Payment systems typically includes Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), Cheque Clearing operated by various Bankers' Clearing Houses in the country including the grid based Cheque Truncation System (CTS) and ECS suite [Electronic Clearing Service (ECS), Regional Electronic Clearing Service (RECS) and National Electronic Clearing Service (NECS)].

Meanwhile, October 25th is a Sunday and hence all banks will be closed.

Banks are closed for three days in a row in cities like Gangtok, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata and Thiruvananthapuram next week. While in Agartala, the holiday stretches for four days in a row.