Court holidays 2026
Allahabad High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Allahabad High Court and, until its separate list is loaded, the district courts of Uttar Pradesh (Noida, Ghaziabad, Lucknow and the rest), from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Allahabad High Court and, until its separate list is loaded, the district courts of Uttar Pradesh (Noida, Ghaziabad, Lucknow and the rest), transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 16 closed days and 5 vacation periods; the second Saturday of each month is a holiday. Sundays are not listed. A matter in Pundora that sits in this court follows this calendar automatically: the deadline arithmetic, the evening digest and the holiday notice all read it.
Add it to your phone. Download the calendar file (.ics) and open it; every closed day appears in your own calendar app, with the court's notification as its source. Forward the file to the chamber. Dates are as the court printed them; a court may notify a change during the year, and this page carries the date it was last checked.
Next closed days
- 17 October 2026 to 21 October 2026 — Dashehra Holidays
- 7 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 — Deepawali Holidays
- Tue 24 November 2026 — Guru Nanak Jayanti & Kartik Purnima
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | closed |
| Fri 2 January 2026 | New Year's Day | closed |
| Wed 14 January 2026 | Makar Sankranti | closed |
| Fri 23 January 2026 | Basant Panchami | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| 2 March 2026 to 7 March 2026 | Holi Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Id-ul-Fitra | closed |
| Thu 26 March 2026 | Ram Navami | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Ambedkar Jayanti | closed |
| Tue 5 May 2026 | Mahavir-Ji-Ka-Mela (Lucknow Bench only) | local |
| Thu 28 May 2026 | Id-ul-Zuha | closed |
| 1 June 2026 to 30 June 2026 | Summer Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Moharram | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Wed 26 August 2026 | Barawafat | closed |
| Fri 28 August 2026 | Raksha Bandhan | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Janmashtami | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Gandhi Jayanti | closed |
| 17 October 2026 to 21 October 2026 | Dashehra Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| 7 November 2026 to 11 November 2026 | Deepawali Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak Jayanti & Kartik Purnima | closed |
| 25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Winter Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, CALENDAR-2026 (for use in the High Court), 21 holidays. Note 2: the second Saturday of each month is a holiday. Note 3: 18 January (a Sunday) is a local holiday at Allahabad only; note 6: 5 May is a local holiday for the Lucknow Bench only (Mahavir-Ji-Ka-Mela) — recorded as local. Note 7: the Court sits on Saturday 28 March. Note 8: the District Judiciary has a SEPARATE list, not yet fetched — district matters in Uttar Pradesh fall back to this calendar until it is.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Allahabad High Court and, until its separate list is loaded, the district courts of Uttar Pradesh (Noida, Ghaziabad, Lucknow and the rest). District courts follow their state's High Court unless the High Court publishes a separate district list; where it does, that list is a separate page here. If your matter's court is not on this list, see the index for what is loaded and what is not.
Questions advocates ask
Do the courts in the Allahabad High Court calendar sit on Saturdays?
The second Saturday of each month is a holiday. Sundays are always closed.
Do district courts follow the same holidays as the High Court?
Only where the High Court has not published a separate list for the district judiciary. Where it has, Pundora keeps the district list as its own calendar, because a holiday in the High Court is not always a holiday in a district court and the other way round.
What does "vacation" mean in this table?
A run of days on which the court's regular benches do not sit. Vacation benches may hear urgent matters, and the Registry may work; a deadline that falls in a vacation is governed by the court's own rules and the Limitation Act, not by this table.
How does Pundora use this calendar?
A matter carries its court's calendar. The deadline arithmetic skips closed days where the rule allows it, the previous-evening WhatsApp digest says when tomorrow is a court holiday, and the Deadlines tab shows which calendar the matter is reading and lets the advocate change it.
Sources
- Allahabad High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)