Stock market holidays 2026

The page lists 20 trading holidays for 2026. Four fall on a Saturday or Sunday, so 16 cost a weekday: Mahashivratri, Id-Ul-Fitr, Independence Day and Diwali Laxmi Pujan are the weekend ones. One closure is not a festival: 15 Jan, for the Maharashtra municipal corporation elections. Closed days are also counted by month. Mar 2026 has four, the most, and Jul 2026 has none.

On an open day the share market runs a pre-open session from 9:00 am to 9:15 am, when orders are collected and the opening price is set. Normal trading is 9:15 am to 3:30 pm. Saturdays and Sundays are closed unless the exchanges announce a special session in advance.

Muhurat trading is a one-hour session held on Diwali Laxmi Pujan as an auspicious start to the new Samvat year. Its hour changes from year to year, and the exchanges announce it by circular shortly before Diwali. The page marks Diwali Laxmi Pujan on 8 Nov 2026, a Sunday, with a muhurat session.

Settlement is when shares and money actually change hands after a trade. Since 27 Jan 2023 all Indian shares settle the next working day, called T+1. A holiday is not a working day, so a trade made the day before a holiday settles after it. This is why a stock bought on the last session before a long weekend shows in the demat account only after the break.

Currency, commodity, interest rate and electronic gold receipt segments keep their own calendars, so some days close one segment and not another. Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti on 19 Feb, for example, closes currency and interest rate derivatives while shares and commodities trade. Equity derivatives follow the share market's days.