Saturday bank holiday: Are banks open or closed on January 18? Full list for the month

Saturday bank holiday: Banks are usually closed during all the second and fourth Saturdays of a month, alongside Sundays.

Updated on: Jan 17, 2025, 12:51:12 IST

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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).

Saturday bank holiday: 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. (Abeer Khan/Bloomberg)

Since January 18, 2025, is a third Saturday, banks will be open and working.

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List of bank holidays in January 2025

January 2025 will also see one more official bank holiday apart from the weekend ones. Banks will remain closed on January 23 due to the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose/Vir Surendrasai Jayanti and General Elections to the Municipal Local Bodies.

However, this is also dependent on which state you are in. The following table shows the entire state-wise list of bank holidays for January 2025.

January 2025	1	2	6	11	14	15	16	23
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

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Holiday Description	Day
New Year’s Day/Loosong/Namsoong	1
Loosong/Namsoong/New Year Celebration	2
Sri Guru Gobind Singh’s Birthday	6
Missionary Day/Imoinu Iratpa	11
Makar Sankranti/Uttarayana Punyakala/Pongal/Maghe Sankranti/Magh Bihu/Birthday of Hazarat Ali	14
Thiruvalluvar Day	15
Uzhavar Thirunal	16
Birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose/Vir Surendrasai Jayanti/General Elections to the Municipal Local Bodies	23

Source: RBI Website

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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.

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