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Public Holidays in India 2021

Check out the complete holiday list in 2021 and plans your vacations and outing according to that. Good Friday in 2021 falls on the same week as Holi.

Sentinel Digital Desk

The year 2020 was a kind of harsh obviously because of the pandemic and everyone was confined in this prolonged lockdown. But all have stepped into this year 2021 with new hopes and enthusiasm. Everyone must be looking forward to new vacation plans as the world was in a state of lockdown for quite a long time. So, here we present the entire list of public holidays in India 2021 with the aid of which you could make various plans for outing and vacations.

The list mentioned below is as per the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and given some of the most common restricted as well as gazetted holidays.

Dates

Days

Events

1 January 2021

Friday

New Year

13 January 2021

Wednesday

Lohri

14 January 2021

Thursday

Pongal/ Makar Sankranti

20 January 2021

Wednesday

Guru Gobind Singh's Birthday

26 January 2021

Tuesday

Republic Day

16 February 2021

Tuesday

Basant Panchami

19 February 2021

Friday

Shivaji Jayanti

26 February 2021

Friday

Hazarat Ali's birthday

27 February 2021

Saturday

Guru Ravidas's birthday

8 March 2021

Monday

Swami Dayananda Saraswati jayanti

11 March 2021

Thursday

Maha Shivratri

28 March 2021

Sunday

Holika Dahan/ Doyatra

29 March 2021

Monday

Holi

2 April 2021

Friday

Good Friday

13 April 2021

Tuesday

Chaitra Sukladi/ Gudi Padava/ Ugadi/ Cheti Chand/ Vaisakhi/ vishu

21 April 2021

Wednesday

Ram Navami

25 April 2021

Sunday

Mahavir Jayanti

1 May 2021

Saturday

Labour Day

14 May 2021

Friday

Eid-ul-fitar

26 May 2021

Wednesday

Buddha Purnima

12 June 2021

Saturday

Rath Yatra

21 June 2021

Monday

Id-ul-zuha (Bakrid)

15 August 2021

Sunday

Independence day

19 August 2021

Thursday

Muharram

21 August 2021

Saturday

Onam

22 August 2021

Sunday

Raksha Bandhan

30 August 2021

Monday

Janmashtami

10 September 2021

Friday

Vinayaka chaturthi

2 October 2021

Saturday

Gandhi Jayanti

15 October 2021

Friday

Dussehra

19 October 2021

Tuesday

Milad-un-Nabi or Id-e-milad

4 November 2021

Thursday

Diwali

6 November 2021

Saturday

Bhai Dujh

19 November 2021

Friday

Gurupurab

25 December 2021

Saturday

Christmas

The above holiday list provides you the dates of the most well-known public holidays.