| Summer holiday (end) - Monday June 7, 2021 School holidays :
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| Annual Closing of Reserve Bank of India - Thursday July 1, 2021 Banks only :
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| Banks Inventory Day - Friday July 2, 2021 Banks only : Annual Closing of the Royal Bank of India (RBI)
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| Eid-ul-Adha - Feast of the Sacrifice (may be changed to the nearest day) - Tuesday July 20, 2021 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Hindu celebration - Wednesday August 11, 2021 Hinduism : Thiruvananthapuram Sree Padmanabhaswamy - The seat of acute devotion and compassion
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| Independence Day - Sunday August 15, 2021 Secular holiday : Commemorates the day in 1947 when India achieved freedom from British rule
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| Ashura - Wednesday August 18, 2021 Muslim, Sufi :
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| Onam - Friday August 20, 2021 Hinduism : Celebrated by the Malayali community
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| Third Onam - Saturday August 21, 2021 Hinduism : Chodhi: On the third day of Onam celebrations, the pookalam starts growing in its size by adding new layers or designs with at least 4 to 5 different flowers. The day also marks the start of shopping activities. Onam is associated with gifting new clothes, hence from this day onwards people start buying new clothes and jewellery. [Wikipedia]
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| Fourth Onam - Sunday August 22, 2021 Hinduism : Vishakam The fourth day of Onam celebrations. Vishakam: considered to be one of the most auspicious days of Onam. In olden days, the markets open their harvest sale on this day, making one of the busiest days in the markets for public. Nowadays, Vishakam marks the start of many Onam-related competitions such as Pookkalam competition. [Wikipedia]
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| Sree Narayana Guru Samathi Day - Monday August 23, 2021 Secular holiday : In Hindu and Buddhist religion and philosophy, the highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality. Samadhi is a state of profound and utterly absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude, in which one maintains one’s full mental alertness and acuity
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| Ayyankalis birthday - Saturday August 28, 2021 Culture : (28 August 1863 – 1941) was a social reformer who worked for the advancement of those people in the princely state of Travancore, British India, who were treated as untouchables. His efforts influenced many changes that improved the social wellbeing of those people, who are today often referred to as Dalits. [Wikipedia]
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| Ayyankali's birthday - Saturday August 28, 2021 Secular holiday : 28 August 1863 – 1941) was a social reformer who worked for the advancement of those people in the princely state of Travancore, British India, who were treated as untouchables. His efforts influenced many changes that improved the social wellbeing of those people, who are today often referred to as Dalits.
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| Mid-term holiday (beginning) - Friday September 3, 2021 School holidays :
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| Guru Granth Sahib day - Friday September 10, 2021 Sikhism : The religious scripture of Sikhism, regarded by Sikhs as the final, sovereign, and eternal living guru following the lineage of the ten human Sikh gurus of the Sikh religion.
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| Mid-term holiday (end) - Monday September 13, 2021 School holidays :
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| Sree Narayana Guru Samathi Day - Tuesday September 21, 2021 Secular holiday : In Hindu and Buddhist religion and philosophy, the highest state of mental concentration that a person can achieve while still bound to the body and which unites him with the highest reality. Samadhi is a state of profound and utterly absorptive contemplation of the Absolute that is undisturbed by desire, anger, or any other ego-generated thought or emotion. It is a state of joyful calm, or even of rapture and beatitude, in which one maintains one’s full mental alertness and acuity
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| Banks Inventory Day - Thursday September 30, 2021 Banks only :
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