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Today's Bank Holiday: The arrival of spring brings a wave of colorful cultural celebrations across India, and these festivals also bring significant changes to banking operations. According to the Drik Panchang, Holi will be celebrated on March 4, 2026. However, banks were closed in many cities on March 3 as well. If you're planning to complete any important banking work on Holi, March 4, you should check whether the bank in your city is open or closed.

Indeed, due to Holi, people are confused about whether banks will be closed on March 4, as banks were closed in many cities on March 3. It's worth noting that banks will remain closed in many states today for Holi, while in some cities they were closed on March 3. Let's find out where banks will be closed today.

Today's Bank Holiday: Are banks closed today?
Banks will be closed in many areas of India today on March 4 for Holi. According to the official holiday calendar released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), branches will be closed in 21 cities, including Agartala, Dehradun, Lucknow, and New Delhi, on the second day of the Holi festival, which includes Dhuleti and Yaosang.

The holiday on March 4th is observed across much of northern, eastern, and northeastern India. Banks will remain closed in places like Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, Kanpur, Kohima, Lucknow, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, and Shimla. In states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Uttarakhand, banks will remain closed for the second or third consecutive day in many districts, following Holika Dahan and the first day of Holi.

Banks will remain closed on March 4th, according to the states, in Tripura, Gujarat, Mizoram, Odisha, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, and Himachal Pradesh.

Why will banks remain closed on this date? Which cities will be closed?
March 1, 2026 Sunday - Weekly Holiday (Sunday) All cities
March 2, 2026 Monday - Holika Dahan Kanpur, Lucknow
March 3, 2026 Tuesday - Holi (Second Day) / Dol Jatra / Dhulandi / Attukal Pongala Belapur, Bhopal, Dehradun, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, Ranchi, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada
March 4, 2026 Wednesday - Holi/Dhuleti/Yaosang Second Day Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Gangtok, Imphal, Itanagar, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla
March 8, 2026 Sunday - Weekly Holiday (Sunday) All cities
March 13, 2026 Friday - Chapchar Kut Aizawl
March 14, 2026 Saturday - Second Saturday (Bank Holiday) All cities
March 15 2026 Sunday Weekly Holiday (Sunday) All Cities
March 17, 2026 Tuesday Shab-e-Qadr Imphal, Jammu, Srinagar
March 19, 2026 Thursday Gudi Padwa/Ugadi/Telugu New Year/Chiraoba/Prathama Navratra Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jammu, Kochi, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Srinagar, Vijayawada
March 20, 2026 Friday Eid al-Fitr (Ramadan) / Jumat al-Vida Imphal, Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Vijayawada
March 21, 2026 Saturday Ramzan-Eid (Eid al-Fitr) / Khutub-e-Ramadan / Sarhul Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar
March 22, 2026 Sunday Weekly Holiday (Sunday) All cities
March 26, 2026 Thursday Shri Ram Navami Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Ranchi, Shimla
March 27, 2026 Friday Shri Ram Navami (Chaite Dasain) Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Patna, Vijayawada
March 28, 2026 Saturday Fourth Saturday (Bank Holiday) All cities
March 29, 2026 Sunday Weekly Holiday (Sunday) All cities
March 31, 2026 Tuesday Mahavir Janmakalyanak/Mahavir Jayanti Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi

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