May 2026 Bank Holidays: With the start of a new month comes a host of tasks you intend to complete—activities you have likely already planned out. Some of these tasks may involve banking-related matters.

Therefore, if you are planning to visit a bank during the month of May, it is advisable to check beforehand exactly when banks will be open and when they will remain closed. This is because banks will observe holidays on 12 days throughout this month. Let's take a look at the specific dates when banks will be closed in your city during May...

How many days will banks be closed in May?

May 1: Banks will remain closed in several regions—including Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal—on account of Buddha Purnima and May Day.
May 9: Banks in West Bengal will remain closed in observance of Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti.

May 16: Banks will observe a holiday in Gangtok on account of State Day, and in Agartala on May 26 to mark the birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam.

May 27: Banks will remain closed on account of Bakrid (Eid-ul-Adha) in the following locations:

Agartala, Ahmedabad, Aizawl, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun
Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kohima
Kolkata, Lucknow, New Delhi, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla
Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, and Vijayawada

May 28: Banks will remain closed on account of Bakrid (Eid-ul-Adha) in Belapur, Bengaluru, Chennai, Jaipur, Jammu, Mumbai, Nagpur, Panaji, Patna, and Srinagar.

Banks to remain closed on the second and fourth Saturdays:
May 9: Banks across the entire country will observe a holiday on the second Saturday of the month.

May 23: Banks across the entire country will observe a holiday on the fourth Saturday of the month.

Banks will observe Sunday holidays on the following dates, remaining closed nationwide:
May 3
May 9
May 10
May 24
May 31

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