Bank Holidays April 2023: Banks will remain closed for fifteen days in April 2023 including weekends, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s holiday list. These holidays include second and fourth Saturdays, as well as Sundays. The central bank 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. Some of these bank holidays are state-specific. Banks remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. In February, banks stayed closed for 12 days, including Saturdays and Sundays. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 2015, 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. Meanwhile, banks across the country remain closed on Sundays.
Bank Holidays April 2023
April 3 – Mahavir Jayanti – Bhopal, Jaipur
April 4 – Mahavir Jayanti – Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur and Ranchi
April 5 – Babu Jagjivan Ram’s Birthday – Hyderabad – Telangana
April 7 – Good Friday – Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi and Shillong
April 14 – Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti/Bohag Bihu/Cheiraoba/Vaisakhi/Baisakhi/Tamil New Year’s Day/Maha Bisubha Sankranti/Biju Festival/Buisu Festival – Agartala, Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Ranchi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram
April 15 – Vishu/Bohag Bihu/Himachal Day/Bengali New Year’s Day (Nababarsha) – Agartala, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Shimla and Thiruvananthapuram
April 18 – Shab-l-Qadr – Jammu and Srinagar
April 21 – Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Eid)/Garia Puja/Jumat-ul-Vida – Agartala, Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram
April 22 – Ramzan Eid (Eid-Ul-Fitr) – Belapur, Bhopal, Chennai, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong and Srinagar
Weekend Bank Holidays April 2023
April 2 – Sunday
April 8 – Second Saturday
April 9 – Sunday
April 16 – Sunday
April 22 – Fourth Saturday
April 23 – Sunday
April 30 – Sunday
Bank Holiday List 2023
1 May: May Day/ Labour Day
5 May: Buddha Purnima
29 June: Bakrid/ Eid al Adha
29 July: Muharram
15 August: Independence Day
16 August: Parsi New Year
31 August 31: Raksha Bandhan
7 September: Janmashtami
19 September: Ganesh Chaturthi
28 September: Eid e Milad
2 October: Gandhi Jayanti
21 October: Maha Saptami
22 October: Maha Ashtami
23 October: Maha Navami
24 October: Vijaya Dashami
12 November: Diwali
13 November: Deepavali Holiday
15 November: Bhai Dooj
27 November: Guru Nanak Jayanti
25 December: Christmas Day