This Holiday Calendar glossary covers-
Let’s look at them successively, one at a time.
Holiday Calendar- Meaning
Holiday calendar consists of a list of holidays in a given year. It comprises national holidays, religious holidays or any other permanent date marked as a holiday. In the calendar, holidays are classified into restricted, floating, observance, season and gazetted holidays.
Holiday Calendar Importance
It is part of the HR duty to make a yearly holiday calendar during the start of a financial year. It is mandatory for the employer to give its employees off days on national holidays that may or may not fall on a weekend. Every company irrespective of their industry type has to grant specified holiday’s ordered by the government except for media, news and healthcare.
2025 Holiday Calendar
| Date | Name | Type |
|---|
| 1 Jan | New Year’s Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 26 Jan | Republic Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 14 Mar | Holi | Gazetted Holiday |
| 31 Mar | Id-ul-Fitr | Gazetted Holiday |
| 10 Apr | Mahavir Jayanti | Gazetted Holiday |
| 18 Apr | Good Friday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 12 May | Buddha Purnima | Gazetted Holiday |
| 7 Jun | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 6 Jul | Muharram | Gazetted Holiday |
| 15 Aug | Independence Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 5 Sep | Milad-un-Nabi (Prophet’s Birthday) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 2 Oct | Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 2 Oct | Dussehra | Gazetted Holiday |
| 20 Oct | Diwali (Deepavali) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 25 Dec | Christmas Day | Gazetted Holiday |
2024 Holiday Calendar
While setting your leave policy or releasing the holiday calendar, referring to the respective year’s holiday calendar released by the government is imperative. This 2024 holiday calendar consists of all the holidays in India classified into Restricted, Gazetted, Observance, and season, and central government holiday. So, make sure you look at this 2024 calendar with holidays before releasing the same on your HR software portal.
| Date | Name | Type |
|---|
| 1 Jan | New Year’s Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 26 Jan | Republic Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 21 Mar | Nawroz | Gazetted Holiday |
| 25 Mar | Holi | Gazetted Holiday |
| 11 Apr | Id-ul-fitr | Gazetted Holiday |
| 21 Apr | Mahavir Jayanti | Gazetted Holiday |
| 23 May | Buddha Purnima | Gazetted Holiday |
| 17 Jun | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 17 Jul | Muharram | Gazetted Holiday |
| 15 Aug | Independence Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 26 Aug | Janmashtami | Gazetted Holiday |
| 16 Sep | Milad-un-Nabi (Prophet’s Birthday) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 02 Oct | Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 03 Oct | Iraqi Independence Day | Holiday Holiday |
| 12 Oct | Dussehra | Gazetted Holiday |
| 31 Oct | Diwali | Gazetted Holiday |
| 25 Dec | Christmas Day | Gazetted Holiday |
2023 Holiday Calendar
| Date | Name | Type |
|---|
| 26 Jan | Republic Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 8 Mar | Holi | Gazetted Holiday |
| 30 Mar | Ram Navami | Gazetted Holiday |
| 4 Apr | Mahavir Jayanti | Gazetted Holiday |
| 7 Apr | Good Friday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 22 Apr | Id-ul-Fitr | Gazetted Holiday |
| 5 May | Buddha Purnima | Gazetted Holiday |
| 29 Jun | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 29 Jul | Muharram | Gazetted Holiday |
| 15 Aug | Independence Day | Gazetted Holiday |
| 7 Sep | Janmashtami (Vaishnava) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 28 Sep | Milad-un-Nabi (Prophet’s Birthday) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 2 Oct | Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 24 Oct | Dussehra (Vijay Dashami) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 12 Nov | Diwali (Deepavali) | Gazetted Holiday |
| 27 Nov | Guru Nanak’s Birthday | Gazetted Holiday |
| 25 Dec | Christmas Day | Gazetted Holiday |