Diwali 2023: Banks will remain closed for 6 consecutive days: Full list

Mumbai: Banks in the country will remain closed for 15 days in November 2023. This includes second and fourth Saturdays and Sundays. Some of the holidays in the list are specific to certain states only. Not all banks in the country will be closed on regional holidays. Many bank holidays are regional and may differ from state to state and bank to bank.

For this week, banks in various cities will remain closed for 6 days consecutively for Diwali, Dhanteras and Bhai Dooj. Banks will remain shut on November 10 due to Dhanteras and Diwali as the 5-day festival begins at Dhanteras and ends at Bhai Dooj on November 15. This year, Diwali will be celebrated on November 12 which a Sunday.

The apex bank in the country, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releases the list of bank holidays every month. Bank holidays are notified under 3 categories- Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday, Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. The regional holidays are decided by the respective state governments.

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List of Bank Holidays in November 2023:

November 10, 2023 (Friday): Wangala Festival – Meghalaya.
November 11, 2023 (Saturday)
November 12, 2023 (Sunday)
November 13, 2023 (Monday): Govardhan Pooja – Tripura, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Manipur, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Maharashtra.
November 14, 2023 (Tuesday): Diwali – Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Sikkim.
November 15, 2023 (Wednesday): Bhaidooj – Sikkim, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, and Himachal Pradesh.
November 20 (Monday)- Chhath (Morning Arghya)- Banks are closed in Bihar and Rajasthan.
November 23 (Tuesday)- Seng Kutsnem/Egaas-Bagwaal- Banks are closed in Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
November 27 (Monday)- Guru Nanak Jayanti/Karthika Purnima/Rahas Purnima- Banks are closed in Tripura, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Hyderabad – Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttara Pradesh, Bengal, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh.
November 30 (Thursday)- Kanakadasa Jayanthi- Banks are closed in Karnataka.