Public holidays 2026
Pick a market to see what is coming up next, then the whole year — with the holidays that land on a weekend flagged, because those are the ones that change your leave planning.
Coming up in India
Gandhi Jayanti
गांधी जयंती
Christmas Day
क्रिसमस
All 2026 public holidays in India
4 holidays · 1 fall on a weekend
January
Republic Day
गणतंत्र दिवस
Jan 26
Monday
August
Independence Day
स्वतंत्रता दिवस
Aug 15
Saturday
October
Gandhi Jayanti
गांधी जयंती
Oct 2
Friday
December
Christmas Day
क्रिसमस
Dec 25
Friday
Dates come from Nager.Date, an open public-holiday dataset, and cover nationally declared holidays. Always confirm against your local government notification before committing a payroll or leave calendar to them.
India has only three gazetted national holidays — Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti. Everything else, including Diwali, Holi and Eid, is declared state by state, and the dates differ between states. That is why this list is short, and why a single national calendar is of limited use to an Indian HR team — Punchly lets you hold a different holiday plan per work location for exactly this reason.
Stop maintaining this in a spreadsheet
Punchly holds a holiday calendar per site, so Mumbai and Gurugram can follow different lists, employees see their own, and attendance knows which days are off.