Banks to remain closed for 14 days in April 2024; Check the full list of bank holidays here

Banks will remain closed for a total of 14 days in the month of April. (Photo source: IE)

Bank Holidays April 2024: Banks will remain closed for a total of 14 days in  the month of April including public holidays, regional holidays, and regular closures on Sundays, second and fourth Saturdays, as per Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday list. April also includes festivals like Id-Ul-Fitr, Ram Navami and Baisakhi.

The 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. Here is a look at the dates of the April 2024 bank holidays across regions.

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April 1 (Monday): Banks will remain closed on April 1 all across the country except for Aizawl, Chandigarh, Gangtok, Kolkata, Shillong and Shimla, to enable them to close their yearly accounts

April 5 (Friday): Babu Jagjivan Ram’s Birthday/Jumat-ul-Vida – Banks will stay closed in Hyderabad – Telangana, Jammu, and Srinagar.

April 9 (Tuesday): Gudhi Padwa/Ugadi Festival/Telugu New Year’s Day/Sajibu Nongmapanba (Cheiraoba)/1st Navratra – Banks will be closed in Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Imphal, Jammu, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, and Srinagar.

April 10 (Wednesday): Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) – Banks will remain shut in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.

April 11 (Thursday): Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (1st Shawaal) – Banks will be closed across the country except for Chandigarh, Gangtok, Kochi, Shimla, and Thiruvananthapuram.

April 13 (Saturday): Bohag Bihu/Cheiraoba/Baisakhi/Biju Festival – Banks will be shut in Agartala, Guwahati, Imphal, Jammu, and Srinagar.

April 15 (Monday): Bohag Bihu/Himachal Day – Banks will remain closed in Guwahati and Shimla.

April 17 (Wednesday): Shree Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain) – Banks will be shut in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Hyderabad – Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad – Telangana, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Ranchi, and Shimla.

April 20 (Saturday): Garia Puja – Banks will be closed in Agartala.