India Business Day Calculator

The calculator counts Monday to Friday and leaves out the 14 holidays that the Department of Personnel and Training's Office Memorandum on the 2027 holidays (F.No.12/2/2023-JCA, dated 16 July 2026) lists as compulsory for Central Government administrative offices, plus Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti. Every such office keeps three more days from a list of 12 optional holidays in the same memorandum: the Department selects them for offices in Delhi and New Delhi, and for offices elsewhere the Central Government Employees Welfare Coordination Committee in the state capital chooses them. Those three are not in this calculator. For Idu'l Fitr, Idu'l Zuha, Muharram and Id-e-Milad the memorandum authorises those committees to change the date, based on the decision of the state government or union territory concerned; in 2026 the list for Central Government offices in Kerala adopted the four dates from the State list, each one day earlier than the date in this calculator's data. Industrial, commercial and trading establishments of the Central Government are a separate case: for them paragraph 7 makes only Republic Day, Independence Day and Mahatma Gandhi's birthday compulsory. Banks keep a different week and a different list: they work the first, third and fifth Saturdays of each month, which this calendar counts as weekend days, and the Reserve Bank of India's holiday page marks each holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act separately for each of its regional offices.

The memorandum names three national holidays; in this calculator's data each is on the same date every year:

• Republic Day (26 January)
• Independence Day (15 August)
• Gandhi Jayanti (2 October)

Christmas Day is on 25 December in every year of the data too. The other 10 compulsory holidays change date from year to year: Good Friday, Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha, Muharram, Milad-un-Nabi, Mahavir Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, Dussehra, Diwali and Guru Nanak Jayanti. For Idu'l Fitr, Idu'l Zuha, Muharram and Id-e-Milad (Eid ul-Fitr, Eid ul-Adha, Muharram and Milad-un-Nabi in this data), paragraph 5.1 of the memorandum provides for a change of date, if necessary, depending upon sighting of the Moon. All 14 dates in the data for 2027 are those of Annexure I of the memorandum dated 16 July 2026, read in the copy the Department of Posts forwarded on 8 September 2026. Rows marked approximate (2028 and 2029) are dates this site computed; no memorandum for those years has been read. Because three more days are chosen for each place, a full list runs to 17, as Annexure I of the memorandum does for Delhi, and this one does not. Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti on 14 April is here too: a separate Office Memorandum of 9 April 2026 (No. 12/4/2020-JCA) declared 14 April 2026 a holiday for all Central Government offices, including industrial establishments, throughout India. That is the only such order read for this page; the data carries the day in every year from 2024 to 2029 and marks it unconfirmed in 2027 and 2029. How we determine holidays →

Bank holidays are not this list. Paragraph 10 of the memorandum leaves the holidays of banks to the instructions of the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, and the Reserve Bank of India's holiday page marks each holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act separately for each of its regional offices, from Agartala to Vijayawada. For a count that follows a bank, read that office's list and the bank Saturdays note above. For a project or contract timeline with a Central Government office, add the three further days that apply to that office under Advanced options: type each date on a line of its own and it comes off the count.