Court holidays 2026
West Bengal district courts holidays 2026
Every closed day of 2026 for the district courts of West Bengal, from the court's own calendar, with its source and a file for your phone.
This is the 2026 holiday calendar of the district courts of West Bengal, transcribed from the court's own published calendar (linked under Sources, with the date it was read). It lists 17 closed days and 3 vacation periods; 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
- 16 October 2026 to 11 November 2026 — Annual Vacation (Durga Puja to Bhatridwitiya)
- Wed 18 November 2026 — Jagaddhatri Puja
- Tue 24 November 2026 — Guru Nanak's Birthday and Parswanath's Rathajatra
Every closed day in 2026
| Date | Occasion | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 January 2026 | New Year's Day | closed |
| Mon 12 January 2026 | Swami Vivekananda's Birthday | closed |
| Fri 23 January 2026 | Netaji's Birthday / Saraswati Puja | closed |
| Mon 26 January 2026 | Republic Day | closed |
| Tue 3 March 2026 | Dol Jatra | closed |
| Wed 4 March 2026 | Holi | closed |
| Thu 26 March 2026 | Ram Navami | closed |
| Fri 3 April 2026 | Good Friday | closed |
| Sat 4 April 2026 | Easter Saturday | closed |
| Tue 14 April 2026 | Birthday of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar / Chaitra Sankranti / Baisakhi | closed |
| Wed 15 April 2026 | Bengali New Year's Day | closed |
| Fri 1 May 2026 | May Day / Buddha Purnima | closed |
| 25 May 2026 to 30 May 2026 | Summer Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Sat 15 August 2026 | Independence Day | closed |
| Fri 4 September 2026 | Janmastami | closed |
| Fri 2 October 2026 | Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday | closed |
| 16 October 2026 to 11 November 2026 | Annual Vacation (Durga Puja to Bhatridwitiya) | vacation (benches may sit) |
| Wed 18 November 2026 | Jagaddhatri Puja | closed |
| Tue 24 November 2026 | Guru Nanak's Birthday and Parswanath's Rathajatra | closed |
| 25 December 2026 to 31 December 2026 | Christmas Vacation | vacation (benches may sit) |
What the court's own calendar says
Notification No. 4897-G.S. of 17 December 2025 (District Civil Courts in West Bengal). The Criminal Courts' list (No. 4898-G.S.) differs only in the Puja break: 16–26 October and 9–11 November instead of the civil courts' 16 October to 11 November — the civil list is loaded. Muslim festival holidays are 'to be declared later' and are NOT loaded. Note 6: 2nd and 4th Saturdays are holidays. Darjeeling and Kalimpong have their own vacations (Note 7/8), not loaded.
Which courts follow this calendar
The district courts of West Bengal. 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 West Bengal district courts 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
- West Bengal district courts: the court's published calendar for 2026 (read 30 September 2026)