Banks Closed Across India on July 26. Fourth Saturday Observance Leads to Nationwide Holiday
July 26, 2025: According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) bank holiday calendar, today, Saturday, July 26, 2025, is the fourth Saturday of the month. All banks in India are closed. This makes sure that all banks in the country have the same holiday schedule on certain Saturdays.
Today’s (July 26) Fourth Saturday Holiday means that banks are closed. Here’s a full list of bank closures in August.
The RBI divides bank holidays into three groups: holidays for the Negotiable Instruments Act, holidays for Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), and holidays when banks close their accounts. The Negotiable Instruments Act says that transactions that include checks and promissory notes won’t be executed today.
Even if physical bank branches are closed, online banking, mobile banking, UPI, and ATMs are all still fully operating across the country. This means that clients can easily do their banking.
Bank Holidays Coming Up in July and August 2025:
across addition to today, July 27 (Sunday) will also be a bank holiday across all of India. Also, banks in Gangtok will be closed on July 28 for the Buddhist holiday Drukpa Tshe-zi.
In August 2025, there will be a lot of bank holidays, including regular Saturdays and Sundays, as well as others that are just for festivals. Here is a list of bank holidays that have been declared for August (not include ordinary Sundays and second and fourth Saturdays unless they are for a festival):
Tendong Lho Rum Faat on August 8 (Friday): Banks in Gangtok are closed.
On Saturday, August 9, Raksha Bandhan and Jhulana Purnima, banks in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, and Shimla were closed.
On Wednesday, August 13, it was Patriot’s Day. Banks were closed in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Imphal, Jaipur, Kanpur, and Shimla.
Independence Day (August 15, Friday) was a national holiday, hence all banks in India were closed.
On August 16 (Saturday), banks were closed in Aizawl, Chandigarh, Chennai, Dehradun, Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Srinagar, and Vijayawada because of Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8) and Krishna Jayanthi.
August 19 (Tuesday): Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur’s birthday. Banks in Agartala were closed.
August 25 (Monday): Tirubhav Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva. Banks were closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, and Vijayawada.
Ganesh Chaturthi/Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha)/Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata/Ganesh Puja/Vinayakar Chathurthi on August 27 (Wednesday) – Bhubaneswar and Panaji banks were closed.
Ganesh Chaturthi (2nd Day) and Nuakhai on August 28 (Thursday): Banks in Panaji were closed.
Customers should schedule their financial activity accordingly and use digital channels for urgent transactions during these vacations.