Bank Holidays in August 2023: If any important work of your bank is pending, then settle it immediately. This is because there are a lot of bank holidays in the next month i.e. August.
In August, banks are going to be closed for a total of 14 days, not one or two, but in different states. The list of bank holidays has also come from the Reserve Bank of India. Therefore, if you have to deal with any work of the bank, then plan according to the holidays. If you do not complete your work on time, then you may also face problems due to holidays.
According to the list released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks will remain closed for 14 days in the month of August 2023. These holidays include second and fourth Saturdays as well as holidays on Sundays. Some of these holidays come under the Negotiable Instruments Act. Apart from this, the rest of the holidays are based on weekends. It is known that banks remain open on the first and third Saturday of every month.
Full list of bank holidays in August (Bank Holidays August 2023 List)
date | State | Occasion |
6 August 2023 | all states | sunday |
8 August 2023 | gangtok | Tendong Lho Rum Phat |
12 August 2023 | all states | second saturday |
13 August 2023 | all states | sunday |
15 August 2023 | all states | Independence Day |
16 August 2023 | Nagpur, Belapur and Mumbai | Parsi New Year (Shahenshahi) |
18 August 2023 | Guwahati | Date of Srimanta Shankardev |
20 August 2023 | all states | sunday |
26 August 2023 | all states | fourth saturday |
27 August 2023 | all states | sunday |
28 August 2023 | Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram | first onam |
29 August 2023 | Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram | thiruvonam |
30 August 2023 | Jaipur and Shimla | Raksha Bandhan |
31 August 2023 | Kanpur, Kochi, Gangtok, Thiruvananthapuram, Dehradun and Lucknow | Raksha Bandhan/Shri Narayan Guru Jayanti/Pang-Lhabsol |
(Note: These 15 holidays are inclusive of holidays in different states. It includes festivals as well as holidays on every Sunday and second and fourth Saturdays. Source: RBI)