Are banks opened or closed on March 8? Check details

Saturday bank holiday: Banks will remain closed on specified holidays, along with second and fourth Saturdays. Customers can still use digital banking services.

Saturday bank holiday: Banks are usually open on the first, third, and fifth Saturdays (if any) of a month, while they are closed on all second and fourth Saturdays as well as on all Sundays, according to the mandate of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

Banks are usually open on the first, third, and fifth Saturdays (if any) of a month (Pixabay)

The banks across India will remain closed on March 8 as it is the second Saturday in March after March 1.

List of bank holidays in February 2025

March 2025	7	13	14	15	22	27	28	31
Agartala				•				•
Ahmedabad			•					•
Aizawl	•		•
Belapur			•					•
Bengaluru								•
Bhopal			•					•
Bhubaneswar				•				•
Chandigarh			•					•
Chennai								•
Dehradun		•	•					•
Gangtok			•					•
Guwahati			•					•
Hyderabad - Andhra Pradesh			•					•
Hyderabad - Telangana			•					•
Imphal				•				•
Itanagar			•					•
Jaipur			•					•
Jammu			•			•	•	•
Kanpur		•	•					•
Kochi								•
Kohima								•
Kolkata			•					•
Lucknow		•	•					•
Mumbai			•					•
Nagpur			•					•
New Delhi			•					•
Panaji			•					•
Patna			•	•	•			•
Raipur			•					•
Ranchi		•	•					•
Shillong			•					•
Shimla			•
Srinagar			•			•	•	•
Thiruvananthapuram		•						•

Holiday Description	Day
Chapchar Kut	7
Holika Dahan/Attukal Pongala	13
Holi (Second Day) - Dhuleti/Dhulandi/Dol Jatra	14
Holi/Yaosang 2nd Day	15
Bihar Diwas	22
Shab-I-Qadr	27
Jumat-ul-Vida	28
Ramzan-Id (Id-Ul-Fitr) (Shawal-1)/Khutub-E-Ramzan

Source: Reserve Bank of India

It is however, best advised to contact your nearest bank branch in case there are any further confusions regarding bank holidays.

What banking services will be available on bank holidays?

While bank branches will be closed for all the aforementioned dates, customers can still access digital or net banking services throughout the year, unless the bank notifies otherwise (usually for maintenance work).

All bank websites, banking apps, UPI, and ATM services will be active throughout the year otherwise. You can even start a fixed deposit or a recurring deposit on such days digitally.