Stock Market Holidays 2026: The Full NYSE & Nasdaq Closing Schedule
“Is the stock market open today?” is one of the most-searched questions in all of investing — and knowing the answer in advance is more than trivia. Holidays change the market’s liquidity and its risk: thin sessions exaggerate moves, and a long weekend means headline risk you can’t react to until the open. Here’s the full 2026 schedule for the NYSE and Nasdaq, so you can plan instead of get surprised.
The 2026 stock market holidays (NYSE & Nasdaq closed)
- New Year’s Day — Thursday, January 1, 2026
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day — Monday, January 19, 2026
- Presidents’ Day (Washington’s Birthday) — Monday, February 16, 2026
- Good Friday — Friday, April 3, 2026
- Memorial Day — Monday, May 25, 2026
- Juneteenth — Friday, June 19, 2026
- Independence Day (observed) — Friday, July 3, 2026 (July 4 falls on a Saturday)
- Labor Day — Monday, September 7, 2026
- Thanksgiving Day — Thursday, November 26, 2026
- Christmas Day — Friday, December 25, 2026
The two early-close days (1:00 p.m. ET)
On two days in 2026, the stock market opens as normal but closes early, at 1:00 p.m. ET (bond markets typically close at 2:00 p.m.). Mark them, because options traders in particular get caught out by them:
- Friday, November 27, 2026 — the day after Thanksgiving.
- Thursday, December 24, 2026 — Christmas Eve.
A holiday isn’t a day off from risk. Thin liquidity exaggerates moves, and a closed market means headlines pile up with no way to act until the bell.
Why the trading calendar belongs on your radar
Beyond knowing when you can trade, the calendar is a risk tool. Long weekends concentrate headline risk. Early closes and holidays still bleed time value from options — an extra non-trading day is an extra day of theta with no chance to react. And the biggest scheduled market movers of the year — the Fed, CPI, the jobs report — cluster on known dates you can prepare for. The investors who get blindsided are simply the ones who weren’t looking at the calendar.
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