March, being the last month of the financial year, is hectic not just in the world of business. Interestingly even in terms of festivals, March is a busy month this year and there are 14 bank holidays or non-working days as per the updated list of official holidays from The Reserve Bank of India.
The list of March 2025 Bank Holidays may however differ slightly from state to state and it also impacts Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and account closure limits for public and commercial banks in India. The RBI list of holidays also include bank holidays on second and fourth Saturday.
One very interesting aspect about the bank holidays for March 2025 list is that the banks are shut on March 31, the last working day of the financial year on account of Id-Ul-Fitr
Check Full List of March 2025 Bank Holidays in India
| March Holidays | Date | Day | Occasion | States where banks are closed |
| 1. | March 2 | Sunday | Routine weekly holiday | All states |
| 2. | March 7 | Friday | Chapchar Kut | Mizoram |
| 3. | March 8 | Saturday | Routine Second Saturday | All states |
| 4. | March 9 | Sunday | Routine weekly holiday | All states |
| 5. | March 13 | Thursday | Holika Dahan, Attukal Pongala | Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Kerala, Dehradun, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram |
| 6. | March 14 | Friday | Holi (Also celebrated as Dol Jatra/ Dhuleti/ Dhulandi/) | Most states shut except Tripura, Karnataka, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Kerala, and Nagaland; include Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar |
| 7. | March 15 | Saturday | Holi/Yaosang 2nd Day | Agartala, Bhubaneshwar, Imphal,Patna |
| 8. | March 16 | Sunday | Routine weekly holiday | All states |
| 9. | March 22 | Saturday | Fourth Saturday & Bihar Diwas | All States, Bihar |
| 10. | March 23 | Sunday | Routine weekly holiday | All states |
| 11. | March 27 | Thursday | Shab-I-Qadr | Jammu, Srinagar |
| 12. | March 28 | Friday | Jumat-ul-Vida | Jammu & Kashmir |
| 13. | March 30 | Sunday | Routine weekly holiday | All states |
| 14. | March 31 | Monday | Id-Ul-Fitr | Holiday across all states except Mizoram, Himachal Pradesh |
Banks to be shut on April 1
According to the the holiday calendar released by RBI, banks will be shut on April 1 (Tuesday) in most states on account of annual closing. Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh are the only exceptions.