Holiday list
Delhi holiday list 2026
Delhi has 17 public holidays in 2026: 3 national, 14 festival. 3 fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and 7 make a long weekend of three days or more without any leave. The year opens with Republic Day on 26 January and closes with Christmas on 25 December.
Delhi follows the gazetted list the central government notifies for its offices in the capital: the three national holidays and fourteen festivals. Gurugram (Haryana) and Noida (Uttar Pradesh) publish separate state lists that overlap with it but do not match.
17
holidays
3
national
14
festival
3
on a weekend
7
long weekends
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| Date | Day | Holiday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | |||
| Monday |  Republic Day | National | |
| March | |||
| Wednesday |  Holi | Festival | |
| Saturday |  Id-ul-FitrSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| Thursday |  Ram Navami | Festival | |
| Tuesday | Mahavir Jayanti | Festival | |
| April | |||
| Friday |  Good Friday | Festival | |
| May | |||
| Friday |  Buddha Purnima | Festival | |
| Wednesday | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid)Subject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| June | |||
| Friday |  MuharramSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| August | |||
| Saturday | Independence Day | National | |
| Wednesday | Milad-un-NabiSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| September | |||
| Friday | Janmashtami | Festival | |
| October | |||
| Friday | Gandhi Jayanti | National | |
| Tuesday | Dussehra (Vijayadashami) | Festival | |
| November | |||
| Sunday |  Diwali | Festival | |
| Tuesday | Guru Nanak Jayanti | Festival | |
| December | |||
| Friday |  Christmas | Festival | |
Weekend dates are marked in red. Restricted and optional holidays, and local holidays declared by a district collector, are not included.
Long weekends in Delhi in 2026
Three or more days off in a row for a company on a five-day week. 7 need no leave; 4 more take a single day of it.
3days
No leaveto
Republic Day
4days
1 day of leaveto
Ram Navami
Take Friday, 27 March off.
4days
1 day of leaveto
Mahavir Jayanti
Take Monday, 30 March off.
3days
No leaveto
Good Friday
3days
No leaveto
Buddha Purnima
3days
No leaveto
Muharram
3days
No leaveto
Janmashtami
3days
No leaveto
Gandhi Jayanti
4days
1 day of leaveto
Dussehra (Vijayadashami)
Take Monday, 19 October off.
4days
1 day of leaveto
Guru Nanak Jayanti
Take Monday, 23 November off.
3days
No leaveto
Christmas
For employers in Delhi
Private employers are not bound by the government list. Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti are paid national holidays everywhere; beyond those, the state’s festival-holiday law or the establishment’s standing orders set how many paid festival holidays must be given, and the employer chooses which ones and notifies the list at the start of the year.
A holiday that falls on the weekly off is usually not replaced unless the company’s policy says so. Staff who work on a paid holiday get double wages or a compensatory day off, depending on the law that applies to the establishment.
Questions people ask
How many public holidays are there in Delhi in 2026?
This list has 17: 3 national holidays, 14 festival holidays. 3 of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday. Restricted or optional holidays are notified separately.
Do private companies in Delhi have to follow this list?
Private employers are not bound by the government list. Republic Day, Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti are paid national holidays everywhere; beyond those, the state’s festival-holiday law or the establishment’s standing orders set how many paid festival holidays must be given, and the employer chooses which ones and notifies the list at the start of the year.
How many long weekends are there in Delhi in 2026?
7 on a five-day week, without taking leave: Republic Day (Sat 24 January to Mon 26 January); Good Friday (Fri 3 April to Sun 5 April); Buddha Purnima (Fri 1 May to Sun 3 May); Muharram (Fri 26 June to Sun 28 June); Janmashtami (Fri 4 September to Sun 6 September); Gandhi Jayanti (Fri 2 October to Sun 4 October); Christmas (Fri 25 December to Sun 27 December). One day of leave makes 4 more.
Which Delhi holidays fall on a weekend in 2026?
Id-ul-Fitr (Saturday, 21 March), Independence Day (Saturday, 15 August), Diwali (Sunday, 8 November). Government lists do not usually move these to a working day.
Can festival dates change?
Yes. Festivals set by the lunar calendar or the sighting of the moon can move by a day when the state notifies them or when the moon is sighted. Check the notification or the district order before finalising your company calendar.
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Kuzhu loads the Delhi list as the default holiday calendar for branches in the state, lets you add company holidays and optional days, and judges attendance and leave against it, so a holiday is never marked absent.