Court holidays 2026
Delhi High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Delhi 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 Delhi High Court, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 24 closed days and 2 vacation periods; the court does not sit on Saturdays. 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
- Mon 19 October 2026 — Mahashtami
- Tue 20 October 2026 — Dussehra
- Wed 21 October 2026 — Local holiday
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | closed |
| Fri 2 January 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Sun 15 February 2026 | Maha Shivratri | closed |
| Wed 4 March 2026 | Holi | closed |
| Thu 5 March 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Fri 6 March 2026 | Local holiday (High Court) | local |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Id-ul-Fitr | closed |
| Thu 26 March 2026 | Ram Navmi | closed |
| Tue 31 March 2026 | Mahavir Jayanti | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Fri 1 May 2026 | Budha Purnima | closed |
| Wed 27 May 2026 | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) | closed |
| 1 June 2026 to 30 June 2026 | Summer vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Muharram | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Wed 26 August 2026 | Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e-Milad | closed |
| Fri 28 August 2026 | Raksha Bandhan | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Janmashtami | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday | closed |
| Mon 19 October 2026 | Mahashtami | closed |
| Tue 20 October 2026 | Dussehra | closed |
| Wed 21 October 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Thu 22 October 2026 | Local holiday (High Court) | local |
| Fri 23 October 2026 | Local holiday (High Court) | local |
| Mon 26 October 2026 | Maharishi Valmiki's Birthday | closed |
| Sat 7 November 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Sun 8 November 2026 | Diwali (Deepavali) | closed |
| Mon 9 November 2026 | Govardhan Puja | closed |
| Tue 10 November 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Wed 11 November 2026 | Bhai Duj | closed |
| Thu 12 November 2026 | Local holiday | local |
| Fri 13 November 2026 | Local holiday (High Court) | local |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak's Birthday | closed |
| Fri 25 December 2026 | Christmas Day | closed |
| 26 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Winter vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
The Delhi High Court's own notification (calendar for 2026): the High Court's holidays, four local holidays for the High Court only, and a summer vacation of 1 to 30 June — longer than the district courts' — and a winter vacation from 26 December. The High Court does not sit on Saturdays. Transcribed and loaded 2026-09-29/30 (migration 0061); the district courts' list from the same notification is a separate calendar.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Delhi 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 Delhi High Court calendar sit on Saturdays?
The court does not sit on Saturdays. 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
- Delhi High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 29 September 2026)