Good to know
- On a Sunday. The list also names Easter Sunday (5 April); Diwali (8 November). These fall on a Sunday, so they are not counted here.
- Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) is 28 May 2026 (Thursday). The Nagaland government moved it from 27 May, as reported by the Directorate of Information and Public Relations. Some copies still show 27 May.
- Statehood Day (1 December) is listed by the Kohima High Court calendar and some other copies, but several copies leave it out. We have included it. Confirm it with your office.
- Dussehra is counted on 20 October. Some copies also show Vijaya Dashami on 21 October; we have not counted it because only three copies list it.
- Easter Saturday (4 April) is not a general holiday. A Nagaland notice made it a holiday for Kohima offices only, in lieu of working Saturday 28 March.
- We could not find the list of restricted holidays (tribal festivals) for 2026.
- Saturdays. We could not confirm which Saturdays are off for state offices, so only Sundays are counted as weekly offs.
- Source difference. Holi: 4 March is used (hrengage, mysarkarinaukri, Pocket HRMS, CalendarLabs and Hyring). greytHR, CareerIndia and bankbazaar give 3 March. It matches the Central Government date.
- Source difference. Milad-un-Nabi: 26 August is used (Kohima High Court calendar, hrengage and mysarkarinaukri). greytHR, Pocket HRMS, CareerIndia, CalendarLabs and Hyring give 25 August.
- 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 Nagaland calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Nagaland, 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. The Nagaland list for 2027 is at Nagaland holiday list 2027.
Source
Nagaland Government list of holidays for 2026, as published by DIPR Nagaland: Home Department notifies on holidays, DIPR Nagaland: Home Department issues corrigendum, Eastern Mirror: Nagaland shifts Bakrid holiday to May 28 (25 May 2026) and Morung Express: April 4 declared holiday (1 Apr 2026), read on 10 November 2026. We could not open the Nagaland Home Department notification of 29 October 2025, so we compiled this list from published copies (the Kohima High Court calendar, hrengage.ai, mysarkarinaukri, greytHR, Pocket HRMS, CareerIndia, CalendarLabs and Hyring) and from Nagaland government press notes on later changes. They agree on most dates but not all. The dates in dispute are listed under Source difference and Good to know. Treat this page as a starting point and confirm with your office circular. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.