Court holidays 2026
Supreme Court of India holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the Supreme Court of India, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the Supreme Court of India, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 18 closed days and 5 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
- 19 October 2026 to 24 October 2026 — Dussehra Holidays
- 9 November 2026 to 14 November 2026 — Diwali Holidays
- Tue 24 November 2026 — Guru Nanak's Birthday
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | New Year Holidays | closed |
| Fri 2 January 2026 | New Year Holidays | closed |
| Wed 14 January 2026 | Makar Sankranti / Magh Bihu / Pongal | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| 2 March 2026 to 7 March 2026 | Holi Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Sat 21 March 2026 | Id-ul-Fitr | closed |
| Thu 26 March 2026 | Ram Navami | closed |
| Fri 27 March 2026 | Local Holiday | local |
| Mon 30 March 2026 | Local Holiday | local |
| 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 12 July 2026 | Summer vacation (partial Court working days) | 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 |
| Mon 14 September 2026 | Ganesh Chaturthi | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday | closed |
| 19 October 2026 to 24 October 2026 | Dussehra Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| 9 November 2026 to 14 November 2026 | Diwali Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak's Birthday | closed |
| 21 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Christmas & New Year Holidays | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
The Supreme Court's CALENDAR 2026 (By Order, S.C. Munghate, Secretary General). Note 4: partial Court working days 1 June to 12 July — recorded as a vacation; the Registry works through it. Note 6: the Registry is closed 25 December to 1 January. Id-ul-Fitr, Bakrid, Muharram and Milad-un-Nabi are subject to the moon.
Which courts follow this calendar
The Supreme Court of India. 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 Supreme Court of India 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
- Supreme Court of India: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)