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- On a Sunday. The list also names Maha Shivratri (15 February); Deepawali (8 November). These fall on a Sunday, so they are not counted here.
- The 25 gazetted holidays are in Schedule-1 of the notification; two of them (Maha Shivratri 15 Feb, Deepawali 8 Nov) fall on a Sunday.
- Schedule-2 holidays (Cheti Chand 19 Mar, Vishwakarma Puja 17 Sep, Guru Tegh Bahadur Shaheed Diwas 24 Nov) are also declared public holidays statewide, but for the Secretariat, Legislative Assembly and offices on a five-day week they count as restricted holidays. They are NOT in items; decide whether to show them as 'additional public holidays'.
- Schedule-1 holidays do not apply to banks, treasuries and sub-treasuries; those follow Schedule-4 under the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 (includes 1 April closing).
- District magistrates may declare up to 3 local holidays (para 4 of the notification).
- Eid-ul-Fitr, Eid-ul-Zuha, Muharram and Milad-un-Nabi are marked * in the notification: observed per local moon sighting and the date moves automatically if the moon sighting differs.
- Eid-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) was notified for 27 May 2026. News reports say the state government moved it to Thursday 28 May after the moon sighting, as the Centre and several other states did. We have shown 28 May and have not seen the revised order.
- Optional holidays. Each employee may take any two restricted holidays from Schedule-3 (17 listed).
- Saturdays. We could not confirm which Saturdays are off for state offices, so only Sundays are counted as weekly offs.
- Source difference. Aggregators (greythr, Keka, hono) show Uttarakhand dates as 'Regional' and mix in restricted holidays, bank closing day and Foundation Day (9 Nov); resolved by using the official Schedule-1 only. Foundation Day (9 Nov) is NOT in Schedule-1.
- 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 Uttarakhand calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in Uttarakhand, 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
Uttarakhand Government notification General Administration Department, Govt of Uttarakhand, Notification No. 1800/XXXI(15)G/25-74(Sa0)/2016, Dehradun, dated 24 December 2025 (issued under Para 243, Manual of Government Orders); eOffice file GAD-GEN/GEN/28/2025-XXXI-A-1 (holidays for 2026), as read from Official GAD notification PDF (hosted copy), TeamLease RegTech legal update and The Current India - Uttarakhand holidays 2026, read on 10 November 2026. We read the notification text from Official GAD notification PDF (hosted copy), TeamLease RegTech legal update and The Current India - Uttarakhand holidays 2026, because we could not open the copy on the Uttarakhand 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.