Bank holiday today: Are SBI, HDFC, ICICI, PNB branches closed on Thursday, 12 November? Check RBI calendar this week

Bank holiday today: Public and private sector lenders, including the State Bank of India and HDFC Bank, will be working as usual today, on Thursday, 12 November, according to the Reserve Bank of India's holiday calendar.

As per RBI rules, banks in India are closed for common national and gazetted holidays, weekend offs and local holidays and festivals off, as required. The central bank releases its annual, official bank holiday list in January. Please contact your nearest local bank branch for their confirmed holiday schedule for 2026.

Notably, all scheduled and non-scheduled banks observe listed holidays and mandatory closure on second and fourth Saturdays and every Sunday in a month. In-branch services are shut, but digital services (online net banking, app) will remain operational.

Banks, including SBI, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda and other lenders across India will remain closed across cities this week as follows:

— November 13 (Friday): Banks will be closed in Shillong for Wangala Festival.

— November 14 (Saturday): Banks will be closed pan India for second Saturday holiday.

— November 15 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday

— November 16 (Monday): Banks will be closed in Patna and Ranchi on account of Chhath Puja.

Banks will be closed for a total of 16 days this month, including state and regional holidays and weekend offs, as per the official RBI calendar for November. This includes weekend offs on November 1, 8, 15, 22, 28, and 29 for Sunday; and November 14 and 28 for second and fourth Saturday holidays, respectively. Besides these are regional holidays on November 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 20, 23, 24 and 27.

Check the full list of dates, cities and reasons, here:

• November 1 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday.
• November 8 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday.
• November 9 (Monday): Banks will be closed in Agartala, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Gangtok, Imphal and Jaipur. Kanpur and Lucknow for Diwali, Laxmi Puja, Govardhan Pooja and Vishwakarma Day.
• November 10 (Tuesday): Banks will be closed in Ahmedabad, Belapur, Bengaluru, Dehradun, Gangtok, Mumbai and Nagpur on account of Bali Pratipada, Govardhan Puja, Laxmi Puja and Vikram Samvat New Year.
• November 11 (Wednesday): Banks will be closed in Gangtok, Imphal, Kanpur, Kolkata, Lucknow and Shimla for Laxmi Puja, Ningol Chakkouba, Bhai Dooj and Chitragupt Jayanti. Notably, Gangtok has three consecutive regional bank holidays.
• November 13 (Friday): Banks will be closed in Shillong for Wangala Festival.
• November 14 (Saturday): Banks will be closed pan India for second Saturday holiday.
• November 15 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday
• November 16 (Monday): Banks will be closed in Patna and Ranchi on account of Chhath Puja.

• November 20 (Friday): Banks will be closed in Dehradun to observe Igas-Bagwal.
• November 22 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday.
• November 23 (Monday): Banks will be closed in Shillong for Seng Kut Snem.
• November 24 (Tuesday): Banks will be closed in Aizawl, Belapur, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Dehradun, Hyderabad, Itanagar, Jaipur, Jammu and Kanpur. Kohima, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Shimla and Srinagar for observances including Guru Nanak Jayanti, Karthika Purnima and Rahas Purnima.
• November 27 (Friday): Banks will be closed in Bengaluru for Kanakadasa Jayanthi.
• November 28 (Saturday): Banks will be closed pan India for fourth Saturday holiday.
• November 29 (Sunday): Banks will be closed pan India for Sunday holiday.

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