To predict crowds for 2021, Avoid-Crowds.com gathers lots of tourist data from around the world. Public holidays and school vacations are key to our crowd predictions and are used in all our prediction models. Now, you can directly access this detailed information by simply scrolling down.
This is our overview of public holidays and school vacations in the India for 2021. We did extensive research to give you all public holidays in all Indian states and Union Territories. We will continuously update our overview when new school vacations are announced. The public holidays don’t change unless we spot errors. The school vacations and public holidays are also incorporated in our daily crowd predictions around the world.
Holiday | Date |
New Year’s Day | January 1, 2021 |
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti | January 23, 201 |
Republic Day | January 26, 2021 |
Basant Panchami | February 16, 2021 |
Holi | March 28-29, 2021 (likely date) |
Good Friday | April 2, 2021 |
Ambedkar Jayanti | April 14, 2021 |
Rama Navami | April 21, 2021 (likely date) |
Labour Day | May 1, 2021 |
Eid al-Fitr | May 12-13, 2021 (likely date) |
Nazrul Jayanti | May 24, 2021 |
Vesak | May 26, 2021 |
Eid al-Adha | July 21, 2021 |
Independence Day | August 15, 2021 |
Ashura | August 18-19, 2021 |
Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday (Gandhi Jayanti) | October 2, 2021 |
Maha Navami | October 14, 2021 |
Dussehra | October 15, 2021 |
Prophet’s Birthday | October 18-19, 2021 (likely date) |
National Unity Day | October 31, 2021 |
Diwali | November 4, 2021 |
Christmas | December 25, 2021 |
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There is no central source for school vacation data in India. We therefore source school vacation data from many different sources in India. Our data includes official data from local governments (like Goa) or schools in India. School vacation data is updated continuously so please visit our website again if you want to see updated data.
There is no standardised national school holiday schedule in India. The school year normally starts in April and ends in March the following year. In southern parts of the country this is slightly different with the school year starting in June and ending in April. In most parts of India the summer break starts half May and ends at the end of June.
School Schedule | Date | Remarks |
Start of School | April to June | Start of School Year different per region |
Christmas Break | End of December to early January | Dates very per region / state |
Summer break | May to June | Depends on state |
