Bank Holidays October 2022: Banks to remain closed for 21 days. Full list here

However, some of the bank holidays will be state-specific, and during national holidays, banks will remain shut across the country.

With Navratri, Durga Puja, Gandhi Jayanti, Dussehra, Diwali, and several other important festivals, falling in October, therefore banks will be shut on most of the days.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has placed the holidays under three brackets- Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real-Time Gross Settlement Holiday; and Banks’ Closing of Accounts

Here’s the full list of Bank holidays in October:

October 1: Half Yearly Closing of Bank Account

October 2: Gandhi Jayanti and Sunday

October 3: Durga Puja (Maha Ashtami), banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Imphal, Kolkata, Patna, Ranchi.

October 4: Durga Puja/Dusshera (Maha Navami)/Ayudha pooja/ Janmotsav of Srimanta Sankardeva. Banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Gangtok, Guwahati, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Shillong and Thiruvananthapuram.

October 5: Durga Puja/Dussehra (Vijaya Dashmi)/Janmotsav of Srimanta Sankardeva. Banks will be closed across India, except in Imphal.

October 6: Durga Puja (Dasain). Banks will be closed in Gangtok.

October 7: Banks will be closed in Gangtok.

October 8: Second Saturday and Milad-i-Sherif/Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Birthday of Prophet Muhammed). Banks will remain closed in Bhopal, Jammu, Kochi, Srinagar and Thiruvananthapuram.

October 9:  Sunday

October 13: Karva Chauth (Banks will remain closed in Shimla.

October 14: Friday following Eid-i-Milad-ul-Nabi (Bank will remain closed in Jammu and Srinagar

October 16: Sunday

October 18: Kati Bihu (Bank will remain closed in Guwahati)

22 October: Fourth Saturday

23 October: Sunday

October 24: Kali Puja/Deepavali/Diwali (Laxmi Pujan)/Naraka Chaturdashi (Banks will be closed across India, except in Gangtok, Hyderaband, Imphal)

October 25: Laxmi Puja/Deepawali/Govardhan Pooja (Banks will remain closed in Gangtok, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur)

October 26: Govardhan Pooja/Vikram Samvant New Year Day/Bhai Bij/Bhai Duj/Diwali (Bali Pratipada)/Laxmi Puja/Accession Day (Banks will remain closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Gangtok, Jammu, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Shimla, Srinagar.)

October 27: Bhaidooj/Chitragupt Jayanti/Laxmi Puja/Deepawali/Ningol Chakkouba (Banks will remain closed in Gangtok, Imphal, Kanpur, Lucknow.

October 30: Sunday

October 31: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Birthday/Surya Pashti Dala Chhath (Morning ardhya)/Chhath Puja (Banks will remain closed in Ahmedabad, Patna, Ranchi.