Holidays in India 2027
Last reviewed: October 14, 2026 · Holiday data: September 8, 2026
The 2027 India holiday table below lists 14 dates, each one a day this calculator treats as closed. 9 fall on a weekday and 5 land on a weekend, leaving 252 working days across the year on the national-only count.
2027 Central Government holidays calendar
| Date | Day | Holiday |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 26 | Tuesday | Republic Day |
| Mar 10 | Wednesday | Eid ul-Fitr |
| Mar 26 | Friday | Good Friday |
| Apr 14 | Wednesday | Dr. Ambedkar Jayantiunconfirmed |
| Apr 19 | Monday | Mahavir Jayanti |
| May 17 | Monday | Eid ul-Adha |
| May 20 | Thursday | Buddha Purnima |
| Jun 16 | Wednesday | Muharram |
| Aug 15 | Sunday (weekend) | Independence Day / Milad-un-Nabi |
| Oct 2 | Saturday (weekend) | Gandhi Jayanti |
| Oct 9 | Saturday (weekend) | Dussehra |
| Oct 29 | Friday | Diwali |
| Nov 14 | Sunday (weekend) | Guru Nanak Jayanti |
| Dec 25 | Saturday (weekend) | Christmas Day |
unconfirmed Entries tagged fall on a date a standing rule fixes, but the annual order or announcement that confirms the day off for this year has not been published yet. Confirm against the issuing authority before relying on them for legally binding deadlines.
2027 year summary
Total days
365
Weekend days
104
Gazetted holidays on weekdays
9
Working days
252
The 5 weekend dates in 2027 fall on a Saturday or Sunday, days the count already excludes, so the working-day reduction comes only from the 9 weekday dates. This list is 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. 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. 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. Bank closures follow a different instrument: the Reserve Bank of India lists, for each of its regional offices, the holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act 1881, and every second and fourth Saturday has been one since a Government of India notification of 20 August 2015.
Sources for these rules
- Holidays to be observed in Central Government offices during 2027: Annexure-I, the compulsory holidays and the days each state committee adds (Department of Posts, forwarding DoPT O.M. F.No.12/2/2023-JCA dated 16 July 2026)
- Declaration of holiday on 14 April 2026, birthday of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, for Central Government offices throughout India (Department of Posts, forwarding DoPT O.M. No. 12/4/2020-JCA dated 9 April 2026)
- Holidays: holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act, by regional office (Reserve Bank of India)
- Bank Holiday on Second & Fourth Saturdays from September 1 (press release 2015-2016/528) (Reserve Bank of India)
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Bank working days on Saturdays
This calendar treats every Saturday as a non-working day. Indian banks close only on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month and work full days on the first, third and fifth, so a count of bank working days can include more days than this calendar shows.
Saturdays the banks are open in 2027:
- January: 2, 16, 30
- February: 6, 20
- March: 6, 20
- April: 3, 17
- May: 1, 15, 29
- June: 5, 19
- July: 3, 17, 31
- August: 7, 21
- September: 4, 18
- October: 16, 30
- November: 6, 20
- December: 4, 18
The list leaves out any of those Saturdays that is a holiday in this calendar, and a state bank holiday can still close the banks of that state on one of the others.
Source: Reserve Bank of India, Bank Holiday on Second & Fourth Saturdays from September 1 (press release 2015-2016/528). Checked October 1, 2026. All sources
Holidays not included
Only the days listed here are counted. Holidays declared for a single state, and the Restricted Holidays on the DoPT list, are not; for work tied to one state, add that state's dates in the calculator's Advanced options.
Sources for these rules
- Holidays to be observed in Central Government offices during 2027: Annexure-I, the compulsory holidays and the days each state committee adds (Department of Posts, forwarding DoPT O.M. F.No.12/2/2023-JCA dated 16 July 2026)
Checked October 13, 2026. All sources
Other years
Sources and verification
Official source: Department of Posts, forwarding DoPT O.M. F.No.12/2/2023-JCA (utilities.cept.gov.in) (opens in a new tab)
Cross-checked against this source on September 8, 2026.