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List of Telangana Religious and National Holidays in 2025

Telangana government has announced 27 general holidays for 2025, notified on 8 November 2024. Along with this, employees can also pick any 5 out of 23 optional holidays during the year. The table below gives the dates, days, and type of each holiday.

Holiday calendar 2025

DateDayHolidayHoliday Type
1 Jan 2025WednesdayNew Year DayCultural
13 Jan 2025MondayBhogiReligious
14 Jan 2025TuesdaySankranti / PongalReligious
26 Jan 2025SundayRepublic DayNational
26 Feb 2025WednesdayMaha ShivaratriReligious
14 Mar 2025FridayHoliReligious
30 Mar 2025SundayUgadiCultural
31 Mar 2025MondayEid ul Fitr (Ramzan)Religious
1 Apr 2025TuesdayFollowing Day of RamzanReligious
5 Apr 2025SaturdayBabu Jagjivan Ram's BirthdayNational
6 Apr 2025SundaySri Rama NavamiReligious
14 Apr 2025MondayDr. B.R. Ambedkar's BirthdayNational
18 Apr 2025FridayGood FridayReligious
7 Jun 2025SaturdayEidul Azha (Bakrid)Religious
6 Jul 2025SundayShahadat Imam Hussain (10th Moharam)Religious
21 Jul 2025MondayBonaluCultural
15 Aug 2025FridayIndependence DayNational
16 Aug 2025SaturdaySri Krishna AstamiReligious
27 Aug 2025WednesdayVinayaka ChavithiReligious
5 Sep 2025FridayEid Miladun NabiReligious
21 Sep 2025SundayBathukamma Starting DayCultural
2 Oct 2025ThursdayMahatma Gandhi Jayanthi / Vijaya DasamiNational
3 Oct 2025FridayFollowing Day of Vijaya DasamiReligious
20 Oct 2025MondayDeepavaliReligious
5 Nov 2025WednesdayKartika Purnima / Guru Nanak's JayanthiReligious
25 Dec 2025ThursdayChristmasReligious
26 Dec 2025FridayFollowing Day of Christmas (Boxing Day)Cultural

Besides these 27 general holidays, Telangana government has also given a list of 23 optional holidays for 2025, covering festivals like Shab-e-Barat, Basava Jayanthi, Ratha Yathra, Varalakshmi Vratham and Christmas Eve. Employees can take any 5 of these 23 in the year, and permission has to be applied for in writing in advance. All offices stay closed on Sundays and second Saturdays too, except 8 February 2025, which is a working day since 1 January fell on a Wednesday that year.

How Telangana Holidays Impact Payroll and Leave Management

Telangana's calendar has one thing most other states don't, a working second Saturday adjustment. Because 1 January 2025 was already a general holiday, the government made 8 February 2025 a working day to balance it out. If a leave system doesn't track this kind of swap, payroll can wrongly mark someone absent or wrongly give a day off on 8 February.

The other pressure point is the optional holiday list. With 23 choices and a cap of just 5, and each one needing prior written approval, HR ends up handling a lot of individual requests, especially around festivals like Shab-e-Barat, Ratha Yathra and Varalakshmi Vratham which fall close together. A good leave system tracks this cap automatically and shows the employee how many optional holidays are left, so HR is not manually checking each request against the yearly limit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Normally all second Saturdays are holidays in Telangana. But since 1 January 2025 (a general holiday) fell on a Wednesday, the government adjusted the calendar and made 8 February 2025 a working day in place of that holiday.