Good to know
- Festivals on a Sunday. Maha Shivratri (15 February), Bhagvan Shree Parshuram Jayanti (19 April) and Diwali (8 November) fall on a Sunday. They are on the government's list, but no extra day off is given, so they are not counted in the 23.
- Weekly offs. Government offices generally have the second and fourth Saturdays off. A holiday that falls on one of those Saturdays merges with the weekly off. 21 March, 15 August and 31 October fall on other Saturdays.
- Optional holidays. Employees may choose two optional holidays from a separate list. This page does not cover that list.
- Banks. 1 April 2026 is the annual closing of accounts for banks, not a general holiday for government offices.
- Ramjan-Eid, Eid-Ul-Adha, Muharram and Eid-e-Meeladunnabi depend on the moon. If one is not observed on the fixed date, Muslim employees may take an optional holiday on the day it is actually observed.
Building your company's Gujarat calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Gujarat, 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 Gujarat, General Administration Department list of public holidays for 2026 (announced 27 November 2025), as reported by Gujarat Samachar and reproduced by GujaratGR, read on 10 November 2026. We could not open the General Administration Department notification itself, so we read the list as reproduced by GujaratGR (which gives the weekdays) and checked every date it shares against Gujarat Samachar's report of the announcement on 27 November 2025. They agree, and Gujarat Samachar's count of 23 matches the 23 holidays here. We have not seen the notification number. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.