Court holidays 2026
Punjab and Haryana High Court holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 25 closed days; 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
- Tue 20 October 2026 — Dussehra
- Mon 26 October 2026 — Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti
- Sun 8 November 2026 — Diwali
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Sun 1 February 2026 | Guru Ravi Dass Jayanti | closed |
| Sun 15 February 2026 | Maha Shivratri | closed |
| Tue 3 March 2026 | Holi | closed |
| Wed 4 March 2026 | Hola | closed |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Id-u'l-Fitr | closed |
| Thu 26 March 2026 | Ram Navami | closed |
| Tue 31 March 2026 | Mahavir Jayanti | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Baisakhi / Dr. Ambedkar's Jayanti | closed |
| Thu 28 May 2026 | Id-ul-Zuha (Bakrid) | closed |
| Thu 18 June 2026 | Martyrdom Day of Sri Guru Arjan Dev Ji | closed |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Fri 28 August 2026 | Raksha Bandhan | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Sri Krishan Janmashtami | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi's Jayanti | closed |
| Tue 20 October 2026 | Dussehra | closed |
| Mon 26 October 2026 | Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti | closed |
| Sun 8 November 2026 | Diwali | closed |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Birthday of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji | closed |
| Mon 14 December 2026 | Martyrdom Day of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji | closed |
| Fri 25 December 2026 | Christmas | closed |
| Sat 26 December 2026 | Jor Mela Fatehgarh Sahib | closed |
| Sun 27 December 2026 | Jor Mela Fatehgarh Sahib | closed |
| Mon 28 December 2026 | Jor Mela Fatehgarh Sahib | closed |
What the court's own calendar says
High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh, CALENDAR 2026, LIST OF HOLIDAYS (25). PARTIAL: the summer vacation is shown only as a red box on the calendar picture, its dates are not in the text, so it is NOT loaded. Sundays, 2nd & 4th Saturdays are holidays. The subordinate courts' calendar (DC Calendar RED.pdf) is a picture with no list — district matters in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh follow this calendar until it is read.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh. 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 Punjab and Haryana 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
- Punjab and Haryana High Court: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)