• Bank Holidays in May 2023: Banks to remain shut for 11 days including weekends; Check full list

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    Bank Holidays in May 2023: Banks to remain shut for 11 days including weekends; Check full list
    Customers are urged to plan ahead for their banking tasks as bank holidays do not apply uniformly throughout states and union...

    Digital Desk: Banks will be shut down in India for 11 days including all four Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays in May 2023. Rabindranath Tagore's birthday, Buddha Purnima, Maharashtra Day/May Day, and Maharana Pratap Jayanti are among the celebrations that will take place in May 2023. 

    Customers are urged to plan ahead for their banking tasks as bank holidays do not apply uniformly throughout states and union territories due to the distinction between national public holidays and state-specific holidays.

    Bank holidays in 2023

    On May 1, all banks will be closed in the following states: Maharashtra, Karnataka, Assam, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and Goa. In observance of Buddha Purnima, banks will be closed on May 5 in New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu, Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Tripura, Mizoram, and Himachal Pradesh. Additionally, Banks will remain closed in select states on May 9, May 16, and May 22. 

    May bank holidays list 


































































    Date



    Occassion



    States



    May 1



    Maharashtra Day/May Day



    Maharashtra, Karnataka,
    Assam, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, and Goa



    May 5



    Buddha Purnima



    New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh,
    Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Jammu, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand,
    Tripura, Mizoram, and Himachal Pradesh



    May 7



    Sunday



    All over India



    May 9



    Rabindranath Tagore's birth
    anniversary



    West Bengal



    May 13



    Second Saturday



    All over India



    May 14



    Sunday



    All over India



    May 16



    State Day



    Sikkim



    May 21



    Sunday



    All over India



    May 22



    Maharana Pratap Jayanti



    Shimla



    May 27



    Fourth Saturday



    All over India



    May 28



    Sunday



    All over India



     RBI bank holidays 

    The Reserve Bank of India divides bank holidays into three categories: Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, Holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holidays, and Banks' Closing of Accounts.