India Public Holidays 2027 — Complete List + How to Add Them to Your Leave System

By Veenu Singh, Founder & CEO, TrackPM · Last updated: October 2026 · 9 min read

Planning your company holiday calendar for 2027? This guide gives you the complete India public holidays list for 2027 — the national and gazetted holidays notified in the DoPT Office Memorandum dated 16 July 2026, plus the state holidays most commonly observed by IT companies in Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Delhi NCR.

At the end, you will find a step-by-step guide to adding your 2027 holiday calendar to TrackPM — where admins set up the company holiday list themselves, giving you full control over which holidays your team observes.

National Holidays India 2027 — 3 Mandatory Holidays

Three national holidays are compulsory for every establishment in India under each state's National and Festival Holidays Act and Shops and Establishments Act. An employee who works on one of these days must be compensated — with double wages, or a day's wages plus a compensatory off, depending on your state's rules.

Note for 2027: Both Independence Day (15 August) and Gandhi Jayanti (2 October) fall on weekends. The DoPT does not give central government offices a substitute day when a holiday falls on a weekend, and for private companies a substitute is a policy choice, not a legal requirement. Many IT companies still give the following Monday off — if you do, add the substitute date to your leave system yourself.

Central Gazetted Holidays India 2027 — Full DoPT List

The DoPT Office Memorandum of 16 July 2026 notified these 17 gazetted holidays for central government offices in Delhi / New Delhi. Private establishments choose which of them to observe — most Indian IT companies settle on 14–18 holidays in total, combining national, gazetted and company-specific days.

Commonly Observed State Holidays — Reference List for IT Companies

Indian IT companies with offices in several cities usually add state-specific holidays based on where their employees work. Here are the holidays most commonly observed in each major IT city — use them as a reference when building your 2027 list, and confirm exact dates against your state government's notification.

Bengaluru (Karnataka)

Kannada Rajyotsava (1 November) is the most important Karnataka-specific holiday and is observed almost universally by Bengaluru IT companies.

Pune and Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Gudi Padwa and Maharashtra Din are the two Maharashtra-specific holidays most Pune and Mumbai IT companies observe.

Chennai (Tamil Nadu)

Pongal (14–16 January) and Tamil New Year (14 April) are the two major Tamil Nadu-specific additions.

Hyderabad (Telangana)

Delhi NCR (Delhi, Noida, Gurugram)

Most Delhi NCR IT companies follow the central DoPT list, with Holi (23 March) and Janmashtami (25 August) as the most common picks. Noida follows Uttar Pradesh rules and Gurugram follows Haryana — confirm the notification for your state separately.

2027 Weekend Holidays — Substitute Day Planning

Six of the 17 gazetted holidays fall on a Saturday or Sunday in 2027 — Independence Day and Id-e-Milad share Sunday 15 August. If your company gives substitute days, these are the usual choices:

Whatever you decide, write the substitute-day policy down and share it before 1 January 2027. Central government offices get no substitute days, and for private companies it is a policy decision — so employees should not have to guess whether a weekend holiday "moves" to Monday.

Comp Off vs Holiday — When Employees Work on Public Holidays in 2027

When an employee works on a national or festival holiday, they are entitled to either:

• Double wages for that day, or
• One day's wages plus a compensatory off day

Which one applies depends on your state's Shops and Establishments Act or National and Festival Holidays Act. For IT companies where project delivery sometimes requires holiday work: approve it in writing before the holiday, record the arrangement, and settle the comp off or double wage in the next payroll run. TrackPM's comp off tracking keeps the balance once the admin records the grant. For the full rules, see our guide to comp off rules in India.

How to Add Your 2027 Holiday Calendar in TrackPM

TrackPM's Holiday Management gives admins one company holiday calendar that every employee can see. You add the holidays yourself — there is no automatic state-wise preset — so the calendar reflects your actual decisions about office locations, team composition and company policy, rather than a generic list that may not match your team.

Step 1 — Decide your holiday list. Use the reference lists above. For most Indian IT companies this means the 3 national holidays, 8–10 gazetted holidays relevant to your office cities, and any company-specific days — 14–16 holidays in total is the most common range.

Step 2 — Open Office → Holidays in TrackPM. Add each holiday with its name and date. If you have the whole list in a spreadsheet, save it as a CSV with reason (the holiday name) and date columns and import it in one go.

Step 3 — Add substitute days, if your policy gives them. For example: Monday 16 August, Monday 4 October, Monday 11 October, Monday 15 November and Monday 27 December.

Step 4 — Add the moon-sighting holidays as tentative. Add Eid-ul-Fitr (around 10 March), Bakrid (around 17 May), Muharram (around 16 June) and Id-e-Milad (around 15 August) with "(tentative)" in the name. When the dates are confirmed in 2027, delete the tentative entry and add the confirmed date.

Step 5 — Let your team check the calendar. Once added, every employee sees the 2027 holidays on the Holidays page, in a list and a calendar view, and can plan their earned leave around them without asking HR for dates. Pair it with TrackPM's leave management so leave requests and holidays live in the same place.

Step 6 — Add location-specific days. Bengaluru teams: add Kannada Rajyotsava (1 November). Chennai: Pongal (14–16 January) and Tamil New Year (14 April). Pune or Mumbai: Gudi Padwa (7 April) and Maharashtra Din (1 May). TrackPM places no restriction on which days you add.

Recommended 2027 Holiday List — Starting Point for Indian IT Companies

If you are setting up your 2027 calendar from scratch, here is a 14-holiday base list that works for most Indian IT companies with pan-India teams:

Then add days for your office cities:

• Bengaluru: + 7 Apr (Ugadi), + 1 Nov (Kannada Rajyotsava) → 16 holidays
• Chennai: + 14 Jan (Pongal), + 15 Jan (Thiruvalluvar Day), + 14 Apr (Tamil New Year) → 17 holidays
• Pune / Mumbai: + 7 Apr (Gudi Padwa), + 1 May (Maharashtra Din) → 16 holidays
• Hyderabad: + 14 Jan (Sankranti), + 7 Apr (Ugadi) → 16 holidays

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Conclusion

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