Bank Holidays March 2024: With the third month of the year already here, here is looking at the dates of the March 2024 bank holidays across regions. Bank holidays will differ from state to state and in the month of March, banks will remain closed for a total of 14 days including public holidays, regional holidays, and regular closures on second and fourth Saturdays and all Sundays. March also includes festivals like Mahashivratri and Holi. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has placed the holidays under three brackets: Holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act; Holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holidays; and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. 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. Online banking services, meanwhile, will remain available nationwide despite these closures.
Bank Holidays March 2024
March 1 (Friday) – Chapchar Kut: Banks are closed in Aizawl on March 1.
March 8 (Friday) – Mahashivratri: Banks will remain closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla, Srinagar, and Thiruvananthapuram.
March 22 (Friday) – Bihar Divas: Banks will stay closed in Patna.
March 25 (Monday) – Holi (Second Day) – Dhuleti/Dol Jatra/Dhulandi: Banks will remain closed in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, and Shimla
March 26 (Tuesday) – Yaosang 2nd Day/Holi: Banks will be closed in Bhubaneswar, Imphal, and Patna.
March 27 (Wednesday) – Holi: Banks will be closed in Patna.
March 29 (Friday) – Good Friday: Banks will be shut in Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Itanagar, Kanpur, Kochi, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, and Thiruvananthapuram.