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- On a Sunday. The list also names Maha Shivaratri (15 February); Deepawali (8 November). These fall on a Sunday, so they are not counted here.
- Official gazette section (i) lists 24 public (gazetted) holidays; two of them (Maha Shivaratri 15 Feb, Deepawali 8 Nov) fall on a Sunday. Three amendments after the gazette are applied: Makar Sankranti 15 Jan (now a public holiday), Ram Navami also 27 Mar, Bakrid 28 May.
- Restricted (nirbandhit) holidays, 31 entries, are not general public holidays and are excluded. Aggregators often wrongly label them gazetted. They include Holi next day 5 Mar, Shab-e-Barat 4 Feb, Jamat-ul-Vida 13 Mar, Cheti Chand 19 Mar, Easter Saturday and Monday, Parshuram Jayanti 19 Apr, Chehlum 4 Aug, Vishwakarma Puja 17 Sep, Anant Chaturdashi 25 Sep, Dussehra Maha Ashtami 19 Oct, Valmiki Jayanti 26 Oct, Sardar Patel Jayanti 31 Oct, Narak Chaturdashi 8 Nov, Chhath 15 Nov, Uda Devi 16 Nov, Urs Ajmer 16 Dec, Charan Singh birthday 23 Dec, Christmas Eve 24 Dec.
- Commercial banks' annual closing, 1 April 2026 (Wednesday), is for banks, treasuries and sub-treasuries only.
- Executive-order holidays: Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheed Diwas 24 Nov 2026 (Tuesday) is in the separate executive-order list; Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti 5 Jan was deleted by a 1 Dec 2025 order. Offices on a five-day week do not observe executive-order holidays or district local holidays.
- District Magistrates may declare up to 3 local holidays in their district each year; these are not in the state list.
- Muslim festival dates (Id-ul-Fitr, Bakrid, Muharram, Barawafat) follow moon sighting; the gazette marks them with an asterisk. The only moon-driven change found for UP is Bakrid (27 to 28 May); none found for the others.
- A viral order about a 28 February 2026 holiday was reported as fake by India TV News (27 Feb 2026); ignore it.
- Optional holidays. The official restricted (nirbandhit) list has 31 entries, including Makar Sankranti (14 Jan, since replaced by a public holiday on 15 Jan), Basant Panchami, Easter, Chhath Puja etc. The gazette read does not say how many an employee may take; not stated.
- Saturdays. We could not confirm which Saturdays are off for state offices, so only Sundays are counted as weekly offs.
- Source difference. Holi: gazette gives Holika Dahan 2 Mar and Holi 4 Mar (Wed) as public holidays; 5 Mar (Thu, 'Holi next day') is only in the restricted list. Some aggregators show 5 Mar or 1 Mar as Holi; chose 4 Mar because the gazette says so.
- Source difference. Ram Navami: gazette 26 Mar only; 25 Mar 2026 Vigyapti adds 27 Mar. Both included. Aggregators that show only 26 Mar are pre-amendment.
- Source difference. Makar Sankranti: gazette had 14 Jan in the restricted list; replaced by a public holiday on 15 Jan (Thu). Included 15 Jan. greytHR and Keka-style lists still show 14 Jan.
- 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 Uttar Pradesh calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Uttar 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
Uttar Pradesh Government notification General Administration Section, Govt of Uttar Pradesh, Vigyapti No. 671/Teen-2025-39(2)/2016 dated 17 November 2025 (UP Asadharan Gazette, Part 4(kha), Vidhayi Parishisht, Kram-Sankhya 185). Amended by: (a) Vigyapti dated January 2026 (number not seen) moving Makar Sankranti from 14 to 15 Jan; (b) Vigyapti No. 3-1099/641/2019 dated 25 March 2026 adding 27 March as a second Ram Navami public holiday; (c) a Vigyapti dated 1 December 2025 deleting Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti (5 Jan) from the executive-order list; (d) Bakrid moved 27 to 28 May 2026 (reported by India TV News, 26 May 2026; order itself not seen). (holidays for 2026), as read from UP Asadharan Gazette 17 Nov 2025, Vigyapti 671/Teen-2025-39(2)/2016 (scan, 5 pages), GAD Vigyapti dated 25 March 2026 (Ram Navami 27 Mar), via UP State Information Commission PDF, hellobanker.in and India TV News, read on 10 November 2026. We read the notification text from UP Asadharan Gazette 17 Nov 2025, Vigyapti 671/Teen-2025-39(2)/2016 (scan, 5 pages), GAD Vigyapti dated 25 March 2026 (Ram Navami 27 Mar), via UP State Information Commission PDF, hellobanker.in and India TV News, because we could not open the copy on the Uttar Pradesh 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.