Court holidays 2026
Orissa High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Orissa 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 Orissa High Court, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 19 closed days and 3 vacation periods; second,penultimate. 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
- 17 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 — Durga Puja Holidays (including Kumar Purnima)
- Mon 23 November 2026 — Dhabaleswar Puja / Bada Osha
- Tue 24 November 2026 — Rasa Purnima
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | closed |
| Wed 14 January 2026 | Makar Sankranti | closed |
| Fri 23 January 2026 | Netaji Jayanti / Basanta Panchami | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Tue 3 March 2026 | Dola Purnima & Holi | closed |
| Wed 4 March 2026 | Dola Purnima & Holi | closed |
| Fri 27 March 2026 | Shreeram Nabami | closed |
| Wed 1 April 2026 | Utkal Divas | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Maha Bisuva Sankranti | closed |
| Tue 28 April 2026 | Lawyer's Day | closed |
| 25 May 2026 to 19 June 2026 | Summer Vacation (including Id-uz-Zuha and the Raja festival) | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Fri 26 June 2026 | Moharrum | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Wed 26 August 2026 | Birthday of Prophet Mohammad | closed |
| Mon 14 September 2026 | Ganesh Puja | closed |
| Tue 15 September 2026 | Nabanna | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Gandhi Jayanti | closed |
| 17 October 2026 to 26 October 2026 | Durga Puja Holidays (including Kumar Purnima) | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Mon 23 November 2026 | Dhabaleswar Puja / Bada Osha | closed |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Rasa Purnima | closed |
| 25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Winter Holidays (including Christmas Day) | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
Orissa High Court, HIGH COURT HOLIDAYS 2026 (a picture, read by the page reader at 0.92 certainty; the vacation rows are printed sideways and were pieced together from their mirrored words and the printed weekdays: Summer Vacation Monday 25 May to Friday 19 June including Id-uz-Zuha on 28 May and the Raja festival on 15-16 June; Durga Puja Saturday 17 to Monday 26 October including Kumar Purnima; Winter Friday 25 to Thursday 31 December). One row printed as 'September 5th, Saturday' beside a sideways 'Janmastami Holidays' could not be resolved and is NOT loaded. N.B. 1: Maha Shivaratri, Kali Puja/Deepabali (Sundays), Id-ul-Fitre (a penultimate Saturday) and Mahalaya (a second Saturday) are not in the list. All Sundays, second Saturdays and the penultimate Saturday of each month are holidays.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Orissa 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 Orissa High Court calendar sit on Saturdays?
Second,penultimate. 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
- Orissa High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)