Bank Holidays in September 2024: Banks will remain closed for a total of 12 days in the month of September including public holidays, regional holidays, and regular closures on Sundays, second and fourth Saturdays, as per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday list. September includes festivals like Ganesh Chaturthi, Onam, and Id-e Milad. Despite the banks remaining shut on these specific days, customers can access banking services via net banking, ATMs, mobile applications, and bank websites.
In August, banks were closed for 13 days and these holidays included Raksha Bandhan, Janmashtami, Independence Day, and the usual weekend breaks.
RBI classifies holidays into three categories: Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday, Banks’ Closing of Accounts Holiday, and Holidays Under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Banks remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. The RBI, in 2015, had announced that both private and PSU banks in India would remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month. While on other Saturdays, banks will stay operational full-day. Banks across the country remain closed on Sundays.
During state-specific festivals, the banks will remain shut only in those states, while during national festivals, banks across the country remain closed. Here is a look at the dates of the September 2024 bank holidays across regions.
Bank Holidays September 2024
September 4 (Wednesday): Tirubhav Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva – Banks will remain closed on September 4 in Guwahati.
September 7 (Saturday): Ganesh Chaturthi/Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha)/Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata/Vinayakar Chathurthi – Banks will be closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Mumbai, Nagpur and Panaji.
September 14 (Saturday): Karma Puja/First Onam – Banks will stay closed in Kochi, Ranchi and Thiruvananthapuram.
September 16 (Monday): Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e Milad (Birthday of Prophet Mohammad) (bara vafat) – Banks will remain shut in Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Dehradun, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh , Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Ranchi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.
September 17 (Tuesday): Indrajatra/Id-e-Milad (Milad-Un-Nabi) – Banks will remain closed in Gangtok and Raipur.
September 18 (Wednesday): Pang-Lhabsol – Banks will be closed in Gangtok.
September 20 (Friday): Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi – Banks will stay shut in Jammu and Srinagar.
September 21 (Saturday): Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day – Banks will remain closed in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
September 23 (Monday): Birthday of Maharaja Hari Singh Ji – Banks will be closed in Jammu and Srinagar.