Bank Holiday- Big news for bank account holders. Today is the fifth Saturday of August. Are banks open on the fifth Saturday? If you are also planning to go to the bank today, then first know whether the bank branches are open or not. According to the rules of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), banks are closed only on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. Whereas banks work on the first, third and fifth Saturdays. Banks will be open tomorrow on Saturday as it is the fifth Saturday of August.
Banks will remain open on 30 August
Many times people get confused about whether banks will be closed on Saturday or not. But now you know that only two Saturdays of every month, second and fourth, are holidays. Today, 30th August is the fifth Saturday. Banks are open on the fifth Saturday.
Weekly Holiday(Sunday & Saturday)
- August 3 (Sunday)
- 9 August (second Saturday)
- 10 August (Sunday)
- 17 August (Sunday)
- 23 August (4th Saturday)
- August 24 (Sunday)
- 31 August (Sunday)
List of RBI holidays in September
September 3 (Wednesday): Banks will remain closed in Jharkhand on the occasion of Karma Puja.
September 4 (Thursday): Bank holiday on the occasion of first Onam in Kerala.
September 5 (Friday): Banks will be closed in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Mizoram, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Manipur on the occasion of Eid-e-Milad and Thiruvonam.
September 6 (Saturday): Bank holiday in Sikkim, Chhattisgarh on Eid-e-Milad/Indrajatra.
September 12 (Friday): Banks will remain closed on Friday after Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi in Jammu, Srinagar.
September 22 (Monday): Banks will remain closed in Rajasthan on the occasion of Navratri establishment.
September 23 (Tuesday): Banks will remain closed in Jammu, Srinagar on the occasion of Maharaja Hari Singh Jayanti.
September 29 (Monday): Banks will remain closed in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal on the occasion of Maha Saptami/Durga Puja.
September 30 (Tuesday): Banks will remain closed on Maha Ashtami/Durga Puja in Tripura, Odisha, Assam, Manipur, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal.