Bank Holidays August 2025: The festival season has started in India. Rakshabandhan festival will come next month. Independence Day will also be celebrated this month. This time there are bumper holidays in banks in the month of August. Banks will remain closed for about 15 days. Banks are also closed on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.
Bank Holidays August 2025: If you have any work related to the bank, then be alert from now itself. There is a lot of holidays in banks in the coming month of August. So it should not happen that you go to the bank and find the lock hanging in the branch there. For this, definitely check the list of bank holidays.
Independence Day of the country is celebrated in the month of August. There will be many festivals in this month including Raksha Bandhan and Shri Krishna Janmashtami. Here we are telling you on which days the bank is closed this month. So that you can complete your work in advance and you do not have any problem at the last moment.
According to the list of bank holidays available on the RBI website, banks are going to be closed for a total of 15 days in different zones across the country in the month of August. Bank holidays in India are decided by the holiday calendar of the Reserve Bank of India. Bank holidays are according to the zone. There are zones ranging from one to 3-4 in every state. In the zone where there is a holiday, all the banks in that area remain closed on that day.
Complete list of bank holidays in the month of August
1 – All banks in the country will remain closed on 3 August due to Sunday, but in Tripura, there will be a holiday on this day due to Ker Puja.
2 – Banks will remain closed on 8 August due to Tendong Lo Rum Fat in Sikkim and Odisha.
3 – Rakshabandhan holiday will be in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan on 9 August.
4 – Banks will remain closed on 13 August on the occasion of Patriotism Day in Manipur.
5 – Independence Day holiday will be in the whole country on 15 August.
6 – Banks will also remain closed in Gujarat and Maharashtra on 16 August due to Janmashtami and Parsi New Year.
7 – There will be a holiday on Ganesh Chaturthi in Karnataka and Kerala on 26 August.
8 – The second day of Ganesh Chaturthi will be celebrated in Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Punjab, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Telangana on 27 August.
9 – After this, there will be a holiday on Nuakhai in Odisha, Punjab and Sikkim on 28 August.
10 – Apart from this, banks will remain closed across the country on 10 and 23 August due to second and fourth Saturday.
11 – There will also be no work in banks on every Sunday i.e. 10, 17, 24 and 31 August.
Digital work will continue during the holiday
Due to so many holidays, cash withdrawal, check clearing and other banking services will be affected. Therefore, customers are advised to finish their bank related work. However, digital banking services like mobile banking, internet banking, ATM etc. will remain operational as usual. Holidays may vary according to the state. These may change as per the notification of local or central government. Therefore, before going to the bank, definitely check the list of holidays from your bank’s website or branch.
