Court holidays 2026

Court holidays 2026

Calcutta High Court holidays 2026

Pundora · Published 30 September 2026 · Updated 3 October 2026

Every closed day of 2026 for the Calcutta High Court, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.

This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Calcutta High Court, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 17 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

Every closed day in 2026

DateOccasionKind
Thu 1 January 2026New Year's Dayclosed
Mon 12 January 2026Swami Vivekananda's Birthdayclosed
Fri 23 January 2026Netaji's Birthday / Saraswati Pujaclosed
Mon 26 January 2026Republic Dayclosed
Tue 3 March 2026Doljatraclosed
Wed 4 March 2026Holiclosed
Thu 26 March 2026Ram Navamiclosed
Fri 3 April 2026Good Fridayclosed
Sat 4 April 2026Easter Saturdayclosed
Tue 14 April 2026Chaitra Sankranti / Birthday of Dr. B. R. Ambedkarclosed
Wed 15 April 2026Bengali New Year's Dayclosed
Fri 1 May 2026Buddha Purnimaclosed
25 May 2026 to 6 June 2026Summer Vacationvacation (benches may sit)
Sat 15 August 2026Independence Dayclosed
Fri 4 September 2026Janmastamiclosed
Fri 2 October 2026Mahatma Gandhi's Birthdayclosed
16 October 2026 to 11 November 2026Annual Vacation (Durga Puja to Bhatridwitiya)vacation (benches may sit)
Wed 18 November 2026Jagaddhatri Pujaclosed
Tue 24 November 2026Guru Nanak's Birthday and Parswanath's Rathajatraclosed
25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026Christmas Vacationvacation (benches may sit)

What the court's own calendar says

HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA, LIST OF HOLIDAYS DURING 2026. Eid-Ul-Fitr, Eid-Uz-Zoha (Bakrid), Muharram and Fateha-Duaz-Daham are 'to be notified later on' (Note III) and are NOT loaded. Note II: second and fourth Saturdays are Court holidays.

Which courts follow this calendar

The Calcutta High Court. 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 Calcutta 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

  1. Calcutta High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)

Every fact on this page carries its source. If one is wrong, write to contact@pundora.in and it will be corrected and dated.