Banks will be open on all days except Saturdays and Sundays between January 5th and 11th. There are no festivals or regional bank holidays this week. The next bank holiday will be on January 12th, Swami Vivekananda Jayanti in West Bengal.
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Bank holidays: All private and public banks will be open for five days in the week starting January 5th. There are no bank holidays next week, except Saturday and Sunday. This means there will be only two weekend holidays that week.
Bank Holidays from January 5th to January 11th
According to the RBI’s bank holiday calendar, there are no festivals or regional bank holidays in the week starting January 5th. Therefore, banks will operate as usual throughout the week.
When is the next bank holiday?
The next bank holiday is on January 12th. Banks will be closed in West Bengal on this day due to Swami Vivekananda Jayanti. However, banks will remain open in the rest of the country.
Bank Holidays in January
There are a total of 16 bank holidays in January 2026, of which four have already passed. The full list is given below:
January 1 – Banks closed in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, and Nagaland due to New Year/Gan-Nagai.
January 2 – Holiday in Mizoram and Kerala due to New Year celebrations/Mannam Jayanti.
January 3 – Banks closed in Uttar Pradesh due to Hazrat Ali Jayanti.
January 12 – Holiday in West Bengal due to Swami Vivekananda Jayanti.
January 14 – Holiday in Gujarat, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh, and Assam due to Makar Sankranti/Magh Bihu.
January 15 – Holiday in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Sikkim due to Pongal/Makar Sankranti.
January 16 – Thiruvalluvar Day in Tamil Nadu.
January 17 – Uzhavar Thirunal in Tamil Nadu.
January 23 – Holiday in West Bengal, Odisha, and Tripura due to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti/Saraswati Puja.
January 26 – Banks closed across India for Republic Day
In addition, the remaining six holidays in January fall on weekends, namely the second and fourth Saturdays and all Sundays.
