Good to know
- Bank-only day. 1 April 2026 (Wednesday), the annual closing of accounts, is a holiday for commercial and co-operative banks only. It is not counted here.
- No substitute days. Thai Poosam (1 February) and Deepavali (8 November) fall on a Sunday, and the reports say no replacement holiday is given.
- Pongal run. Pongal, Thiruvalluvar Day and Uzhavar Thirunal fall on 15, 16 and 17 January, which with the Sunday that follows gives a four-day break.
- Compared with the central list. Bakrid is on 28 May here and 27 May in the central list.
- Who it covers. The reports say the list applies to state government offices, public sector undertakings, corporations and boards.
- Ramzan, Bakrid, Muharram and Milad-un-Nabi depend on the moon and can move by a day.
Building your company's Tamil Nadu calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Tamil Nadu, 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
Tamil Nadu Government Order G.O.(Ms.) No. 708 dated 11 November 2025 (public holidays for 2026), as reported by The News Minute, thecurrentindia.com and indianhrm.com, read on 10 November 2026. We could not open the Tamil Nadu government site (its holiday page returned a not-found error), so we cross-checked three published copies of the list and they agree on every date. The G.O. number and date come from one of them, indianhrm.com, and we have not seen the order itself. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.