Here Is The Complete Holiday Calendar 2022!

The Holiday Calendar is one of the most favourite employee resources. Agree? It shows all the national holidays, religious holidays, or other permanent holidays. The HRs duty is to make calendars for every state depicting floating, observance, season, gazetted, and restricted holidays. So, to make your job easier, here is the complete holiday calendar for 2022.

The Holiday Calendar 2022

Indian law mandates every employer to extend some flexible and mandatory holidays to its employees. Though, media, news, and healthcare services are exempt from these laws.

Here is the complete list of holidays in the year 2022:

Holidays & Observances In India In 2022
Date	Day	Holiday Name	Type
1 Jan	Saturday	New Year’s Day	Restricted Holiday
9 Jan	Sunday	Guru Govind Singh Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
13 Jan	Thursday	Lohri	Restricted Holiday
14 Jan	Friday	Pongal	Restricted Holiday
14 Jan	Friday	Makar Sankranti	Restricted Holiday
26 Jan	Wednesday	Republic Day	Gazetted Holiday
1 Feb	Tuesday	Chinese New Year	Observance
5 Feb	Saturday	Vasant Panchami	Restricted Holiday
14 Feb	Monday	Valentine’s Day	Observance
15 Feb	Tuesday	Hazarat Ali’s Birthday	Restricted Holiday
16 Feb	Wednesday	Guru Ravidas Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
19 Feb	Saturday	Shivaji Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
26 Feb	Saturday	Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
1 Mar	Tuesday	Maha Shivaratri / Shivaratri	Gazetted Holiday
17 Mar	Thursday	Holika Dahana	Restricted Holiday
18 Mar	Friday	Holi	Gazetted Holiday
18 Mar	Friday	Dolyatra	Restricted Holiday
20 Mar	Sunday	March Equinox	Season
2 Apr	Saturday	Chaitra Sukhladi	Restricted Holiday
2 Apr	Saturday	Ugadi	Restricted Holiday
2 Apr	Saturday	Gudi Padwa	Restricted Holiday
10 Apr	Sunday	Rama Navami	Restricted Holiday
14 Apr	Thursday	Maundy Thursday	Observance, Christian
14 Apr	Thursday	Mahavir Jayanti	Gazetted Holiday
14 Apr	Thursday	Vaisakhi	Restricted Holiday
14 Apr	Thursday	Mesadi / Vaisakhadi	Restricted Holiday
14 Apr	Thursday	Ambedkar Jayanti	Observance
15 Apr	Friday	Good Friday	Gazetted Holiday
16 Apr	Saturday	First Day Of Passover	Observance
17 Apr	Sunday	Easter Day	Restricted Holiday
29 Apr	Friday	Jamat-Ul-Vida	Restricted Holiday
1 May	Sunday	May Day	Observance
3 May	Tuesday	Ramzan Id / Eid-Ul-Fitr (Tentative Date)	Gazetted Holiday
8 May	Sunday	Mother’s Day	Observance
9 May	Monday	Birthday of Ravindranath	Restricted Holiday
16 May	Monday	Buddha Purnima / Vesak	Gazetted Holiday
19 Jun	Sunday	Father’s Day	Observance
21 Jun	Tuesday	June Solstice	Season
1 Jul	Friday	Rath Yatra	Restricted Holiday
10 Jul	Sunday	Bakr Id / Eid-Ul-Adha (Tentative Date)	Gazetted Holiday
13 Jul	Wednesday	Guru Purnima	Observance
7 Aug	Sunday	Friendship Day	Observance
9 Aug	Tuesday	Muharram / Ashura (Tentative Date)	Gazetted Holiday
11 Aug	Thursday	Raksha Bandhan (Rakhi)	Restricted Holiday
15 Aug	Monday	Independence Day	Gazetted Holiday
16 Aug	Tuesday	Parsi New Year	Restricted Holiday
18 Aug	Thursday	Janmashtami (Smarta)	Restricted Holiday
19 Aug	Friday	Janmashtami	Gazetted Holiday
31 Aug	Wednesday	Ganesh Chaturthi / Vinayak Chaturthi	Restricted Holiday
8 Oct	Thursday	Onam	Restricted Holiday
23 Sep	Friday	September Equinox	Season
26 Sep	Monday	First Day of Sharad Navratri	Observance, Hinduism
1 Oct	Saturday	First Day Of Durga Puja Festivities	Observance, Hinduism
2 Oct	Sunday	Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti	Gazetted Holiday
2 Oct	Sunday	Maha Saptami	Restricted Holiday
3 Oct	Monday	Maha Ashtami	Restricted Holiday
4 Oct	Tuesday	Maha Navami	Restricted Holiday
5 Oct	Wednesday	Dussehra	Gazetted Holiday
9 Oct	Sunday	Maharishi Valmiki Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
9 Oct	Sunday	Milad-un-Nabi / Id-e-Milad (Tentative Date)	Gazetted Holiday
13 Oct	Thursday	Karaka Chaturthi (Karwa Chauth)	Restricted Holiday
24 Oct	Monday	Naraka Chaturdasi	Restricted Holiday
24 Oct	Monday	Diwali / Deepawali	Gazetted Holiday
25 Oct	Tuesday	Govardhan Puja	Restricted Holiday
26 Oct	Wednesday	Bhai Duj	Restricted Holiday
30 Oct	Sunday	Chhat Puja (Pratihar Sashti / Surya Sashti)	Restricted Holiday
31 Oct	Monday	Halloween	Observance
8 Nov	Tuesday	Guru Nanak Jayanti	Gazetted Holiday
24 Nov	Thursday	Guru Teg Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day	Restricted Holiday
19 Dec	Monday	First Day of Hanukkah	Observance
22 Dec	Thursday	December Solstice	Season
24 Dec	Saturday	Christmas Eve	Restricted Holiday
25 Dec	Sunday	Christmas	Gazetted Holiday
26 Dec	Monday	Last Day of Hanukkah	Observance
29 Dec	Thursday	Guru Govind Singh Jayanti	Restricted Holiday
31 Dec	Saturday	New Year’s Eve	Observance

Various state holiday calendars can be obtained from this one calendar. But that is a lot of effort.

A leave management system eases things as you just need to make calendars once and not every year. Also, the pending leaves are visible to both the employer and employee!