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Bank Holidays in December 2021: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releases a monthly list of bank holidays on its official website.
According to the list, banks are scheduled to remain closed for seven days in the month of December on account of different occasions.
Apart from these holiday, banks in India will also not open for five more days on account of weekend holidays (Sundays, second and fourth Saturdays).
Overall, 12 bank holidays will be observed in the month of December.
However, some of them are regional holidays so they may not be observed all over India.
3 December: Feast of St. Francis Xavier (Goa)
5 December: Sunday (All over India)
11 December: 2nd Saturday (All over India)
12 December: Sunday (All over India)
18 December: Death Anniversary of U SoSo Tham (Shillong)
19 December: Sunday (All over India)
24 December: Christmas Festival (Christmas Eve) (Aizawl, Shillong)
25 December: Christmas, 4th Saturday (Guwahati, Hyderabad, Imphal, Jaipur, Jammu, Kanpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Panaji, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Shillong, Shimla, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram)
26 December: Sunday (All over India)
27 December: Christmas Celebration (Aizawl)
30 December: U Kiang Nangbah (Shillong)
31 December: New Year’s Eve (Aizawl)
Customers will not be able to undertake physical banking operations on the above mentioned days. However, they can still make transactions through digital modes and ATM. Mobile and internet banking will remain functional as usual.
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