Holiday list
Karnataka holiday list 2026
Karnataka has 19 public holidays in 2026: 3 national, 15 festival and 1 state. 5 fall on a Saturday or Sunday, and 7 make a long weekend of three days or more without any leave. The year opens with Makara Sankranti on 14 January and closes with Christmas on 25 December.
Karnataka’s list carries Kannada Rajyotsava on 1 November and May Day, with Ugadi opening the year and Deepavali closing it. Technology companies serving overseas clients often run their own calendar and give the state days as compensatory offs.
19
holidays
3
national
15
festival
1
state
5
on a weekend
7
long weekends
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Add the Karnataka 2026 holidays to your calendar
A standard .ics file with one all-day event per holiday. Works with Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar.
| Date | Day | Holiday | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | |||
| Wednesday |  Makara Sankranti | Festival | |
| Monday |  Republic Day | National | |
| February | |||
| Sunday |  Maha Shivaratri | Festival | |
| March | |||
| Thursday |  Ugadi | Festival | |
| Saturday |  Khutub-e-Ramzan (Id-ul-Fitr)Subject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| Tuesday | Mahavir Jayanti | Festival | |
| April | |||
| Friday |  Good Friday | Festival | |
| Tuesday | Dr B R Ambedkar Jayanti | Festival | |
| May | |||
| Friday |  May Day | Festival | |
| Wednesday | BakridSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| June | |||
| Friday |  Last day of MoharrumSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| August | |||
| Saturday | Independence Day | National | |
| Wednesday | Id-e-MiladSubject to the sighting of the moon | Festival | |
| September | |||
| Monday | Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata | Festival | |
| October | |||
| Friday |  Gandhi Jayanti | National | |
| Tuesday | Vijayadashami | Festival | |
| November | |||
| Sunday | Kannada Rajyotsava | State | |
| Sunday |  Deepavali | 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 Karnataka 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
Ugadi, Khutub-e-Ramzan (Id-ul-Fitr)
Take Friday, 20 March off.
4days
1 day of leaveto
Mahavir Jayanti
Take Monday, 30 March off.
3days
No leaveto
Good Friday
4days
1 day of leaveto
Dr B R Ambedkar Jayanti
Take Monday, 13 April off.
3days
No leaveto
May Day
3days
No leaveto
Last day of Moharrum
3days
No leaveto
Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata
3days
No leaveto
Gandhi Jayanti
4days
1 day of leaveto
Vijayadashami
Take Monday, 19 October off.
3days
No leaveto
Christmas
For employers in Karnataka
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 Karnataka in 2026?
This list has 19: 3 national holidays, 15 festival holidays and 1 state day. 5 of them fall on a Saturday or Sunday. Restricted or optional holidays are notified separately.
Do private companies in Karnataka 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 Karnataka 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); May Day (Fri 1 May to Sun 3 May); Last day of Moharrum (Fri 26 June to Sun 28 June); Varasiddhi Vinayaka Vrata (Sat 12 September to Mon 14 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 Karnataka holidays fall on a weekend in 2026?
Maha Shivaratri (Sunday, 15 February), Khutub-e-Ramzan (Id-ul-Fitr) (Saturday, 21 March), Independence Day (Saturday, 15 August), Kannada Rajyotsava (Sunday, 1 November), Deepavali (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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In Kuzhu
Kuzhu loads the Karnataka 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.