Christmas

India · December 25 · Fiscal month FM9 · Quarter Q3

Country

India

Date

December 25

Falls in fiscal month

FM9 of India fiscal year

Falls in fiscal quarter

Q3

Source

Government of India gazette

About Christmas

National holiday across India.

Where it lands in your fiscal year

For organisations operating on the India fiscal calendar, Christmas falls in fiscal month 9 (FM9), inside quarter Q3. Treat the date as a non-working day in payroll calendars, exclude it from business-day counts when scheduling close milestones or accrual postings, and check vendor terms for any "next business day" payment clauses that would shift settlement.

If the holiday falls on a weekend, observance rules vary: the United States federal government observes the nearest preceding Friday or following Monday; the United Kingdom typically grants a substitute weekday. Check the country's official observance rules before locking payroll runs.

Operational impact for finance teams

For finance and operations teams, Christmas reduces the working-day count for FM9 by one. If the holiday falls within two business days of a month-end, expect downstream impact on accruals (revenue cutoff, inventory counts, AP cutoffs) and on banking value dates. Wire transfers and ACH/Faster Payments usually settle the next business day; international wires may slip two days when origin and destination both observe the holiday. See our guide on mapping holidays to fiscal months for a worked example of how to fold observance dates into the close calendar.

Open the calendar

See this holiday highlighted in context on the printable monthly template:

Open December template →   Full India fiscal year →

Year-by-year observance

Pick a specific year to see the actual weekday, weekend-observance shift (if any), and where the holiday lands inside that year's fiscal quarter:

Other holidays in India

• January 26 — Republic Day
• August 15 — Independence Day
• October 2 — Gandhi Jayanti