Bank holiday: Are you planning to settle any work related to the bank on Saturday 8 March 2025? So let us tell you whether the banks will be open this Saturday or not? This is the second Saturday of the month. According to RBI, banks are open on the first, third and fifth Saturdays of every month. Banks remain closed on the rest, second and fourth Saturdays.
Banks remain closed on second and fourth Saturdays
Customers should keep in mind that banks are closed as public holidays on the second and fourth Saturdays. Apart from this, banks are closed on Sundays and other national and local holidays. In the days when banks are closed, customers can do financial and non -financial transactions using service like internet banking, SMS banking and WhatsApp banking. To avoid any kind of trouble, first see that you are registering with the bank for all these service.
RBI holiday list
March 8 (Second Saturday) – Weekly holiday
March 9 (Sunday) – Weekly holiday
March 13 (Thursday): Holika Dahan and Atukal Pongala – Banks will remain closed in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Kerala.
March 14 (Friday): Holi (Dhulati/Dhulandi/Dole Jatra) – Public holidays except Tripura, Odisha, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Manipur, Kerala and Nagaland.
March 15 (Saturday): Holi in select states – banks closed in Agartala, Bhubaneswar, Imphal and Patna
March 16 (Sunday) – Weekly holiday
March 22 (Fourth Saturday): Weekly Holiday and Bihar Day
March 23 (Sunday) – Weekly holiday
27 March (Thursday): Shab-e-Kadra-Bank closed in Jammu
28 March (Friday): Jumat-ul-Vida-Bank closed in Jammu and Kashmir
March 30 (Sunday) – Weekly holiday
March 31 (Monday): Ramadan-Eid (Eid-ul-Fitr) (Shaval-1)/Khutub-e-Ramjan-Most of the states except Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh will be holiday.
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Banks will be closed for 14 days in March
March includes Holi, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti, Parsi New Year etc. Due to many festivals, banks will remain holidays in different states. Banks do not close simultaneously across the country. The state which has a holiday, banks are closed only in those states. Here is the list of major holidays of March 2025. If you have a plan to go to the bank in March, then first know these holidays.
| Reason for leave | Day |
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| Chapchar kut | 7 |
| Holika Dahan/Aatukal Pongla | 13 |
| Holi (Second Day) – Dhuleti / Dhulandi / Dol Jatra | 14 |
| Holi / Yaosang second day | 15 |
| Bihar day | 22 |
| Shab-e-dadra | 27 |
| Jumat-ul-Vida | 28 |
| Ramadan-Eid (Eid-ul-Fitr) (First Shawwal)/ Khutub-e-Ramjan | 31 |
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