Bank Holiday Today on August 8: Are banks open or closed on Friday? Check details

Those who are planning to visit a bank branch today, i.e. on Friday, August 8, 2025, must check the holiday calendar as banks remain closed on Reserve Bank of India-notified holidays. The central bank determines bank holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act and issues a calendar that includes all the details about such holidays and the cities where banks will remain closed. Apart from these holidays, public-sector banks (PSBs) and private banking institutions remain closed on Sundays and the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.

Bank Holiday For Tendong Lho Rum Faat

As per the RBI's holidays calendar for August 2025, it is a bank holiday today for Tendong Lho Rum Faat, a traditional festival celebrated by the indigenous Lepcha community of Sikkim. However, banks will remain closed only in Gangtok and in the rest of the country, they will work as usual.

Are Banks Open On August 9, 2025

Banks will remain closed across the country as it is a second Saturday.

Full List Of Bank Holidays In August 2025

• August 08 (Friday) – Tendong Lho Rum Faat - Holiday in Gangtok
• August 09 (Saturday) – Raksha Bandhan / Jhulana Purnima - Holiday in Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Dehradun, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Shimla, Bhubaneswar
• August 13 (Wednesday) – Patriot’s Day - Holiday in Imphal
• August 15 (Friday) – Independence Day / Parsi New Year / Janmashtami - Nationwide Holiday – All banks across India will remain closed
• August 16 (Saturday) – Janmashtami (Shravan Vad-8) / Krishna Jayanthi - Holiday in Aizawl, Chennai, Hyderabad, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, Vijayawada, Gangtok, Chandigarh, Jammu, Srinagar
• August 19 (Tuesday) – Birthday of Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur - Holiday in Agartala
• August 25 (Monday) – Tirubhav Tithi of Srimanta Sankardeva - Holiday in Guwahati
• August 27 (Wednesday) – Ganesh Chaturthi / Samvatsari / Ganesh Puja - Holiday in Mumbai, Belapur, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Panaji
• August 28 (Thursday) – Ganesh Chaturthi (2nd Day) / Nuakhai - Holiday in Bhubaneswar, Panaji

Full List of Bank Holidays in 2025