The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released for the month of August, a list of days on which banks will be closed on account of national or regional festivals, and days of special observance. Banks to remain closed for 18 days in these states, check full list here. In total, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) there will be as many as 18 days in August (besides second/fourth Saturdays and Sundays) on which banks will be shut in some part of the country.
List of bank holidays for the month of August 2022:
August 1: Banks will remain closed in Gangtok on the occasion of Drukpa Tshe-zi.
August 7: First Sunday of the month.
August 8: Banks will remain closed in Jammu and Srinagar on the occasion of Muharram (Ashura).
August 9: To mark the occasion of Muharram (Ashura), banks will be closed in Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Raipur, and Ranchi.
August 11: On Raksha Bandhan, banks will be shut in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Dehradun, Jaipur, and Shimla.
August 12: Banks will remain closed in Kanpur and Lucknow as Raksha Bandhan will be marked on this day here.
August 13: While banks in Imphal are listed to remain shut on the occasion of Patriots’ Day as per RBI, banks in other parts of the country will also be non-operational as the day is the second Saturday of the month.
August 14: Second Sunday of the month.
August 15: Banks across the country will be closed on the occasion of the nationwide Independence Day celebration.
August 16: Banks will stay shut in Belapur, Mumbai, and Nagpur on the occasion of Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi).
August 18: In Bhubaneswar, Dehradun, Kanpur, and Lucknow banks will remain closed on the occasion of Janmashtami.
August 19: Banks across Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gangtok, Jaipur, Jammu, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, and Srinagar will remain shut on the occasion of Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8)/Krishna Jayanthi regional festivals.
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August 20: Banks will remain closed in Hyderabad to mark Sri Krishna Ashtami.
August 21: Third Sunday of the month.
August 27: Fourth Saturday of the month.
August 28: Fourth Sunday of the month.
August 29: On the occasion of Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva, banks will remain shut in Guwahati.
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August 31: Banks will remain closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Nagpur, and Panaji on the occasion of Samvatsari (Chaturthi Paksha)/Ganesh Chaturthi/Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata/Vinayakar Chathurthi.
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