Court holidays 2026
Bombay High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Bombay High Court and the courts of Maharashtra and Goa that follow it, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Bombay High Court and the courts of Maharashtra and Goa that follow it, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 22 closed days and 3 vacation periods; second,fourth. 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
- Tue 20 October 2026 — Dasara
- Fri 23 October 2026 — Holiday
- 6 November 2026 to 18 November 2026 — Diwali Vacation (Diwali Holidays 8-13 November)
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Thu 19 February 2026 | Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti | closed |
| Mon 2 March 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| Tue 3 March 2026 | Holi (2nd day) | closed |
| Thu 19 March 2026 | Gudi Padwa | closed |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Ramzan Id | closed |
| Tue 31 March 2026 | Mahavir Jayanti | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Mon 13 April 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Jayanti | closed |
| Mon 20 April 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| Fri 1 May 2026 | Maharashtra Day & Buddha Pournima | closed |
| 11 May 2026 to 7 June 2026 | Summer Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Wed 27 May 2026 | Bakri-Id | closed |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Moharrum / Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj Jayanti | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day & Parsi New Year | closed |
| Wed 26 August 2026 | Id-E-Milad | closed |
| Mon 14 September 2026 | Ganesh Chaturthi / Haritalika | closed |
| Fri 25 September 2026 | Anant Chaturdashi | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti | closed |
| Tue 20 October 2026 | Dasara | closed |
| Fri 23 October 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| 6 November 2026 to 18 November 2026 | Diwali Vacation (Diwali Holidays 8-13 November) | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak Jayanti | closed |
| 25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Christmas Vacation (to 3 January 2027) | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
High Court, Bombay, Calendar for the year 2026 — the two pictures the court publishes (calendar20261.jpg, calendar20262.jpg), read at 0.98-0.99 certainty. Summer vacation Monday 11 May to Sunday 7 June; Diwali vacation Friday 6 to Wednesday 18 November (Diwali holidays 8-13 within it); Christmas vacation Friday 25 December to Sunday 3 January 2027. 2nd and 4th Saturdays and Sundays closed; court working Saturdays 17 January, 7 March, 18 April, 5 December. Bench-specific days (Nagpur 18 September; Aurangabad 17-18 September; Kolhapur 18 September; Goa 15 September, 3 and 24 December, 19 December) are NOT loaded — this is the principal seat's calendar. Akshay Tritiya (19 April, Nagpur local) falls on a Sunday.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Bombay High Court and the courts of Maharashtra and Goa that follow it. 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 Bombay High Court calendar sit on Saturdays?
Second,fourth. 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
- Bombay High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 1 October 2026)