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- On a Sunday. The list also names Sant Ravidas Jayanti (1 February); Maha Shivratri (15 February); Sarhul (Phulkhonsi) (22 March); World Adivasi Day (9 August); Sharadiya Navratra / Kalash Sthapana (11 October); Dussehra (Maha Saptami) (18 October); Deepawali (8 November); Surya Shashthi Dala Chhath (evening arghya) (15 November); Bhagwan Birsa Munda Jayanti / Jharkhand Foundation Day (15 November). These fall on a Sunday, so they are not counted here.
- Applies to all State Government offices and revenue offices in Jharkhand: 21 gazetted holidays (Schedule-1, under the NI Act) plus 13 closed by executive order (Schedule-2) = 34 closure days. Schedule-1 holidays also close banks; Schedule-2 ones apply only to government offices.
- Two things fall on 21 Mar (Id-ul-Fitr and Sarhul, one combined entry) and two on 1 May (Buddha Purnima and May Day, one in each schedule); items keeps both 1 May rows because they come from different schedules, so there are 34 rows on 33 distinct dates.
- Executive-order (Schedule-2) holidays: Sohrai 12 Jan, Sohrai Khuntav 13 Jan, Makar Sankranti 14 Jan, Subhash Chandra Bose Jayanti 23 Jan, May Day 1 May, Hul Diwas 30 Jun, Rath Yatra 16 Jul, Raksha Bandhan 28 Aug, Ganesh Chaturthi 14 Sep, Vishwakarma Puja 17 Sep, Karma Puja (Phulkhonsi) 23 Sep, Govardhan Puja 9 Nov, Bhaiya Dooj 11 Nov.
- Sunday holidays are not separately declared (gazette footnotes), but establishments where Sunday is a normal working day must treat them as holidays. They are listed in sunday_listed.
- 1 April annual bank-account closing applies to banks only, not government offices.
- Gazette note: dates of Muslim festivals (Id-ul-Fitr, Id-ul-Zuha, Muharram, Milad-un-Nabi) may change with moon sighting.
- Secretariat and attached offices run a five-day week; regional offices run a six-day week.
- Saturdays. We could not confirm which Saturdays are off for state offices, so only Sundays are counted as weekly offs.
- Source difference. greytHR gives Holi 3 Mar only and Ram Navami 27 Mar; the gazette lists Holika Dahan 3 Mar, Holi 4 Mar and Ram Navami 26 Mar. Used the gazette.
- Source difference. greytHR lists Maha Ashtami 19 Oct and Maha Navami 20 Oct and Vijaya Dashami 21 Oct; the gazette has Maha Ashtami 19 Oct and Maha Navami/Vijayadashami 20 Oct only (no 21 Oct). Used the gazette.
- Source difference. Gazette footnote prints Maha Shivratri as '15 January' (a Thursday); it is clearly a typo, since the note is about Sunday dates. Odisha's official list and aggregators put Maha Shivratri on 15 Feb 2026 (Sunday), used here.
- Bakrid. The date shown, 27 May, is the one in the notification we read. The Centre and several states (Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and others) moved Bakrid to 28 May after the moon sighting. We found no revision for Jharkhand, so check your office circular.
- Festivals tied to the moon, such as the Eid festivals and Muharram, can move by a day. Any change is announced at short notice.
Building your company's Jharkhand calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Jharkhand, 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
Jharkhand Government notification Jharkhand Gazette (Extraordinary) No. 542, Ranchi, Monday 15 December 2025; Notification No. 10/Sa.Av.-03-03/2025 Ka.-7244 dated 10 December 2025, Personnel, Administrative Reforms and Rajbhasha Department (Schedule-1: 21 gazetted holidays; Schedule-2: 13 executive-order holidays; Schedule-3: 1 April bank closing) (holidays for 2026), as read from Jharkhand Gazette Extraordinary No. 542, 15 Dec 2025 (PDF copy, scanned, read as images), TeamLease RegTech, Hono.ai Jharkhand 2026 and greytHR Jharkhand 2026, read on 10 November 2026. We read the notification text from Jharkhand Gazette Extraordinary No. 542, 15 Dec 2025 (PDF copy, scanned, read as images), TeamLease RegTech, Hono.ai Jharkhand 2026 and greytHR Jharkhand 2026, because we could not open the copy on the Jharkhand government site. Dates and weekdays are as printed there and checked against the calendar. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.