Bank holiday today, 1 March 2022: List of cities where Banks will be closed for Mahashivratri 2022

New Delhi: Before visiting your bank branch today (1 March 2022), you must take a note on whether the bank branch in your city is operating or not.

As per the RBI holiday list, bank branches in several cities will be closed today on account of Mahashivratri 2022. However, banking activities like ATM transaction, online transaction, IMPS, RTGS etc will continue to be operative.

Banks in the following mentioned cities with the red dots will remain closed on account of Mahashivratri 2022. The red dots fall under RBI's Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act.

March 2022	1
Agartala
Ahmedabad	•
Aizawl
Belapur	•
Bengaluru	•
Bhopal	•
Bhubaneswar	•
Chandigarh	•
Chennai
Dehradun	•
Gangtok
Guwahati
Hyderabad	•
Imphal
Jaipur	•
Jammu	•
Kanpur	•
Kochi	•
Kolkata
Lucknow	•
Mumbai	•
Nagpur	•
New Delhi
Panaji
Patna
Raipur	•
Ranchi	•
Shillong
Shimla	•
Srinagar	•
Thiruvananthapuram	•

Banks will remain closed for total 13 days in the month of March —7 as per the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holiday calendar list and the remaining days are that of weekends.

However, you must note that the banks will NOT be closed for 13 days in all states or regions. This is the total number of days when banks in different parts of the country will remain closed for state-observed holidays. For example bank branches might be closed for Bihar Divas in Bihar but NOT closed for the same festival in Assam.

Here is an elaborate list of bank holidays falling in the month of March 2022. Check out the list.
Holiday Description Day

Mahashivratri (Maha Vad-14): March 1

Losar: March 3

Chapchar Kut: March 4

Holika Dahan: March 17

Holi/Holi 2nd Day – Dhuleti/Doljatra: March 18

Holi/Yaosang 2nd Day: March 19

Bihar Divas: March 22

Other than the above RBI mentioned holidays, banks will be closed on the following weekends

Sunday: March 6

Second Saturday: March 12

Sunday: March 13

Sunday: March 20

Fourth Saturday: March 26

Sunday: March 27

Reserve Bank of India places its Holidays under three brackets --Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act; Holiday under Negotiable Instruments Act and Real Time Gross Settlement Holiday; and Banks’ Closing of Accounts. However, it must be noted that the bank holidays vary in various states as well not observed by all the banking companies. Banking holidays also depend on the festivals being observed in specific states or notification of specific occasions in those states.