Good to know
- Weekly offs. The order closes all state offices on every Sunday and second Saturday. Four holidays fall on a Sunday: Maha Sivaratri (15 February), Babu Jagjivan Ram's birthday (5 April), Durgashtami (18 October) and Deepavali (8 November). The order lists them separately as occasions that occur on Sundays and does not give a replacement day.
- Optional holidays. Employees may take up to five optional holidays from a list of 21 occasions in the order, with written permission in advance. This page does not cover that list.
- Who it covers. The order says general holidays do not automatically apply to industrial establishments, public sector undertakings, public works department workmen or educational institutions. Separate orders are issued for them.
- Compared with other lists. Dates differ from the central list because the state follows its own order. For example, Eid-ul-Fitr is on 20 March here and 21 March in the central list, and Moharrum is on 25 June here and 26 June in the central list.
- Ramzan, Bakrid, Moharrum and Milad-un-Nabi depend on the moon. The order says any change of date, for these or for a Hindu festival, is announced through the media and departments act on the announcement without waiting for a formal order.
Building your company's Andhra Pradesh calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Andhra Pradesh, treat this list as your starting point. Add the national days your policy gives, decide whether you offer floating holidays, say in writing what happens when a holiday falls on a weekend, and publish the final calendar before the year begins. If you have offices in several states, keep one calendar for each.
For the central government list, see Central Government holiday list 2026.
Source
Government of Andhra Pradesh, General Administration (Political.B) Department, G.O. Rt. No. 2276 dated 4 December 2025, Annexure-I (general holidays for 2026), published in the A.P. Gazette Extra-Ordinary of the same date, read on 10 November 2026. We read the signed order, with all its annexures, from a PDF copy hosted by a third-party HR site, because we could not open the copy on the Andhra Pradesh government site. The order number, department, date and weekdays are as printed in that copy. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.