Diwali bank holidays 2023: Banks will remain closed across India on November 10 during the five-day festival of Diwali, starting with Dhanteras and ending with Bhai Dooj on November 15.
This year the festival of Diwali will be celebrated across the country on Sunday, 12th November. Dhanteras, the first day of the festival, is the day when Hindus worship Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. It is considered auspicious to buy precious metals like gold and silver and utensils.
It is believed that they bring good luck. Banks will also remain closed during this period. Here we are telling you when the banks will remain closed during the week of Diwali.
Diwali Bank Holiday 2023
- 10 November (Friday): Wangala Festival – Meghalaya.
- 11 November (2nd Saturday) – Chhoti Diwali
- 12 November (Sunday) – Diwali
- November 13 (Monday): Govardhan Puja – Tripura, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Manipur, Rajasthan, UP and Maharashtra.
- November 14 (Tuesday): Diwali – Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Sikkim.
- November 15, 2023 (Wednesday): Bhaidooj – Sikkim, Manipur, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal and Himachal Pradesh.
- Complete list of holidays in November 2023
- 20 November (Monday) – Chhath (Morning Arghya). Banks will remain closed in Bihar and Rajasthan.
- 23 November (Tuesday) – Seng Kutsnem/Egas-Bagwal. Banks will remain closed in Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
- 27 November (Monday)- Guru Nanak Jayanti/Kartik Purnima/Rahas Purnima. Banks are closed in Tripura, Mizoram, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Hyderabad – Telangana, Rajasthan, Jammu, Uttar Pradesh, Bengal, Maharashtra, New Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh.
- 30 November (Thursday) – Kanakdas Jayanti. Banks will remain closed in Karnataka.
Banks are not closed simultaneously in every state
The Reserve Bank of India releases the list of bank holidays every calendar year. Here it is important for you to know that banks in the entire country are not closed. Many of the holidays in the holiday list released by RBI are of national level. And some are of local level. In such a situation, it is not necessary that on the day banks are closed in Punjab, there should be no functioning of banks in Maharashtra also.
