The calendar above is already set to India holidays for 2026, ready to download as a PDF. Below is the full list, the weekday each holiday falls on, and the long weekends they create.

How holidays work in India

India has exactly three national holidays anchored in the constitution’s civic calendar — Republic Day (26 January), Independence Day (15 August) and Gandhi Jayanti (2 October). They are the only days off that apply to the whole country, and they are what this page and the generator mark.
Everything else works on lists: the central government publishes gazetted holidays (mandatory for its offices) and restricted holidays (each employee picks a small number) every year, and every state issues its own list on top.
The great festivals — Diwali, Holi, Eid, Onam, Durga Puja — follow lunar and lunisolar calendars, land on different dates each year and differ by state, which is why an honest national list stays short instead of guessing.

The 3 national holidays

Date	Day	Holiday
January 26	Monday	Republic Day
August 15	Saturday	Independence Day
October 2	Friday	Gandhi Jayanti

These are the dates as officially observed. Where a country moves a day off because the holiday itself falls at a weekend, the moved date is the one shown, which is why a date here can differ from the traditional one.

Long weekends in 2026

Stretches of three or more days off in a row, counting weekends and nationwide public holidays together. Holidays that apply only to some regions are left out, since they would not give most people the day off.

Dates	Days	Because of
January 24 – January 26	3	Republic Day
October 2 – October 4	3	Gandhi Jayanti

Holidays that fall at a weekend

One holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday in 2026, and India does not shift it to a weekday:

August 15 (Saturday) — Independence Day

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The generator at the top of this page marks every holiday listed here. The calendar language is a separate setting, so you can print India holidays with month names in any of 58 languages — or switch the holidays off and keep a plain calendar.

India public holidays 2026

How holidays work in India

The 3 national holidays

Long weekends in 2026

Holidays that fall at a weekend

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