Good to know
- Saturday holidays. The notification marks the holidays that fall on a Saturday as applying only to offices where Saturday is not a full holiday. They are tagged Saturday only in the table.
- Left out because they fall on a Sunday. Shivaratri (15 February), Maha Saptami (18 October), Lakshmi Puja (25 October), Kali Puja (8 November), Chhat Puja (15 November) and the birthday of Birsa Munda (15 November). No replacement day is given.
- Not counted. Karam Puja has no date yet and will be notified later. The birthday of Poet Bhanu Bhakt (13 July) is for Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts only. Easter Saturday (4 April) and Hul Diwas (30 June) are sectional holidays for Christian and Adibasi (Santhal) employees only.
- Banks. 1 April 2026, the yearly closing of bank accounts, is for banks only. Government offices stay open.
- Durga Puja. State holidays run from 15 to 17 October and 22 to 24 October, with the public holidays on 19, 20 and 21 October between them. With the Sundays, offices have a break from 15 to 26 October.
- Eid-Ul-Fitr, Id-Ud-Zoha, Muharram, Shab-e-Barat and Fateha-Dwaz-Daham depend on the moon. The notification says a separate order or public announcement can change them.
Building your company's West Bengal calendar
If you run HR for a company with staff in West Bengal, 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
West Bengal Government Notification No. 4188-F(P2), Finance (Audit) Department, dated 27 November 2025 (holidays for 2026), as reproduced by WBXpress, WB Calendar and GoodReturns, read on 10 November 2026. We could not open the notification on the West Bengal government site, so we read it as reproduced by WBXpress, which gives the number, date and every weekday, and checked it against WB Calendar and GoodReturns. All three give the same dates. The notification number appears in two of them and the date in one. Weekdays were checked against the calendar. Rules last reviewed 9 November 2026.