Bank Holidays in March 2025: Complete list of state-wise bank holidays
There are 14 bank holidays in March including March 31. The banks are shut on March 31 on account of Id-ul-fitr.
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
Source: Reserve Bank Of India
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.