Court holidays 2026
Madhya Pradesh High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the district courts of Madhya Pradesh until a separate list is loaded, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and the district courts of Madhya Pradesh until a separate list is loaded, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 24 closed days and 3 vacation periods; second,third. 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 — Mahanavmi
- Tue 20 October 2026 — Dussehra
- Sat 24 October 2026 — Dussehra Holidays
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| Fri 2 January 2026 | Holiday | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Mon 2 March 2026 | Holi Holidays | closed |
| Tue 3 March 2026 | Holi Holidays | closed |
| Thu 19 March 2026 | Gudi Padwa | closed |
| Fri 27 March 2026 | Ramnavmi | closed |
| Tue 31 March 2026 | Mahaveer Jayanti | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Mon 13 April 2026 | Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti / Baisakhi | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Dr. Ambedkar Jayanti / Baisakhi | closed |
| Fri 1 May 2026 | Buddh Purnima | closed |
| 18 May 2026 to 12 June 2026 | Summer Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Wed 27 May 2026 | Id-Ul-Zuha | closed |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Moharrum | closed |
| Mon 24 August 2026 | Id-milad un-Nabi | closed |
| Fri 28 August 2026 | Raksha Bandhan | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Janmashtmi | closed |
| Mon 14 September 2026 | Ganesh Chaturthi | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Gandhi Jayanti | closed |
| Mon 19 October 2026 | Mahanavmi | closed |
| Tue 20 October 2026 | Dussehra | closed |
| Sat 24 October 2026 | Dussehra Holidays | closed |
| Sat 7 November 2026 | Chhoti Diwali | closed |
| 9 November 2026 to 13 November 2026 | Deepawali Holidays (Govardhan Pooja onward) | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Gurunanak Jayanti | closed |
| 25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Winter Vacation (Christmas Day on the 25th) | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
High Court of Madhya Pradesh, Jabalpur, Notification No. B/8292 of 1 December 2025 (a scan, read at 0.96-0.98 certainty): 20 holidays (30 days), summer vacation 18 May to 12 June, winter vacation 25 to 31 December. Note 1: Independence Day and Sarv Pitra Moksha Amavasya fall on Saturdays, Mahashivratri and Id-Ul-Fitar (22 March) on Sundays, so are not declared separately. Note 2 lists the closed Saturdays (2nd and 3rd of each month, with named exceptions); note 3's non-working Saturdays keep the Registry open. The District Judiciary has its own list (Notification B-518 of 21 January 2026), not yet fetched.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Madhya Pradesh High Court and the district courts of Madhya Pradesh until a separate list is loaded. 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 Madhya Pradesh High Court calendar sit on Saturdays?
Second,third. 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
- Madhya Pradesh High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)