Court holidays 2026
Jharkhand High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Jharkhand 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 Jharkhand High Court, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 20 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
- 16 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 — Puja Holidays
- 7 November 2026 to 17 November 2026 — Diwali, Dawat Puja and Chhath Puja Holidays
- Sun 15 November 2026 — Bhagwan Birsa Jayanti
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 |
| Fri 23 January 2026 | Basant Panchami | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Sun 15 February 2026 | Mahashivaratri | closed |
| 2 March 2026 to 7 March 2026 | Holi | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Id-ul-Fitr / Sarhul | closed |
| Fri 27 March 2026 | Shree Ram Navami | closed |
| Tue 31 March 2026 | Mahavir Jayanti | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Ambedkar Jayanti | closed |
| 18 May 2026 to 6 June 2026 | Annual Summer Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Thu 28 May 2026 | Id-ul-zuha (Bakrid) | closed |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Muharram | closed |
| Thu 16 July 2026 | Rath Yatra | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Wed 26 August 2026 | Id-e-Milad / Milad-un-Nabi | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Shree Krishna Janmashtami | closed |
| Tue 22 September 2026 | Karma | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti | closed |
| 16 October 2026 to 23 October 2026 | Puja Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| 7 November 2026 to 17 November 2026 | Diwali, Dawat Puja and Chhath Puja Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Sun 15 November 2026 | Bhagwan Birsa Jayanti | closed |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak's Birthday / Kartik Purnima | closed |
| 24 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Christmas Holiday & Winter Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
High Court of Jharkhand, Ranchi, CALENDAR FOR 2026, LIST OF HOLIDAYS — the HIGH COURT column of a two-column table (the other column is the Supreme Court's). Rows that appear in one column only were assigned by matching the Supreme Court's own calendar: Budha Purnima (1 May) and Ganesh Chaturthi (14 September) belong to the Supreme Court column and are NOT loaded for the High Court; Makar Sankranti (14 January) and Raksha Bandhan (28 August) are HALF-DAY holidays for the High Court and are not loaded as closed days. Sundays and second Saturdays are holidays. Moon-dependent dates may change.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Jharkhand 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 Jharkhand 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
- Jharkhand High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)