US Stock Market Holidays and Early Closes

Guidance last reviewed 2026-08-18

The US stock market closes on ten holidays a year and shuts early on three more. The early closes cause more trouble than the closures do: the market is open, it is thin and fast, and a trader who has forgotten can be holding into a bell that rings three hours ahead of schedule.

The tables below come from the same date engine that drives Chart Ding's in-app holiday warnings, so what you see here and what the app tells you are always the same thing.

In one sentence

Ten full closures, three 1:00 PM early closes, and a handful of rules that shift dates around when a holiday lands on a weekend — with one exception that most calendars miss.

2026

2027

2028

The rules behind the dates

The exchanges publish the rules that determine these dates, and we work them out from those published rules. The exchanges are the source; we are not. We check our dates against the exchanges' own calendars and update them when schedules change — and schedules do change.

Good Friday is the odd one. It is the only market holiday tied to the lunar calendar rather than a fixed date or a weekday rule. It is calculated from Easter, which moves between late March and late April, and it is the holiday most often missed — it is not a federal holiday, so calendars built from the federal list leave it out entirely.

The exceptions that calendars often miss

A holiday on a weekend usually moves — except once

The general rule: a holiday falling on a Saturday is observed the Friday before, and one falling on a Sunday is observed the Monday after.

⚠️ New Year's Day is the exception. When 1 January falls on a Saturday, the markets do not close the preceding Friday. They stay open. The next time this happens is 1 January 2028 — which is why 2028 has no New Year's holiday in the table above. That absence is correct, and it is the single most common error in published market calendars.

An early close can become a full closure

The three early closes only happen if the day is a normal trading day in its own right. When Christmas Day falls on a Saturday, the observed closure moves to Friday 24 December — so Christmas Eve that year is closed all day, not a half day. The 2027 table shows exactly this.

Juneteenth did not always exist

Juneteenth became a US market holiday in 2022. Before that it was an ordinary trading day. Any calendar or backtest covering earlier years that marks it closed is wrong, and it is a common mistake in analysis software.

Futures and bonds keep different hours

This is the most important caveat on the page, and the one most calendars omit.

"The market is closed" is a statement about stocks. It is frequently not true for other instruments on the same date:

• Futures commonly trade a shortened session on a US holiday and then reopen on the electronic session that evening. A trader who reads "closed all day" and steps away can miss a session that is running.
• The bond market follows its own recommended schedule and closes on days the stock exchanges do not — Columbus Day and Veterans Day being the usual pair.
• Different futures products — equity index, energy, metals, agriculture — do not all keep the same holiday hours as each other.

Always check the specific schedule for what you actually trade. The tables above cover US equities.

Proposed and upcoming changes to trading hours

What follows is based on the latest reports available at the date above. Some of these changes have regulatory approval, others are still pending it, and at least one launch date has already been rescheduled. This is where the reporting stands rather than a schedule to plan around — and we will revise it as things are confirmed.

The reason it belongs on this page: a holiday table describes closures relative to the regular session, and the regular session is no longer the only thing open.

Options. Cboe received SEC approval to offer extended trading hours on select multi-listed single stock options — not every name, but those meeting minimum options volume and underlying market cap and liquidity thresholds.

Which names qualify. Reporting on the approval describes three thresholds, each measured over the preceding six months — average daily options volume of around 150,000 contracts, an underlying market capitalization of about $50 billion, and underlying average daily share volume near 10 million shares. Treat those as the figures currently being reported rather than a settled rule; eligibility criteria of this kind are usually reviewed periodically, and the exchange's own specifications are the authority.

You will see the hours reported two different ways. The reason is that the options day now stretches from 7:30 AM to 4:15 PM ET — but not continuously.

⚠️ These are options hours, not stock hours. The underlying shares keep their own schedule, and the equity changes described below are a separate track on a separate timetable.

A neat side effect: extending to 4:15 PM brings these single stock options into line with when Cboe's index options already stop, so the two stop trading at the same moment rather than fifteen minutes apart.

That five-minute pause is deliberate. The extended session stops at 9:25 and the exchange runs its opening process at 9:30. Orders left resting from the extended session are re-handled through that opening process rather than carried straight across, and routable orders can be sent to other venues if better prices exist once the regular session is open.

So a headline of "7:30 to 4:15" describes the outer edges of the day, not an unbroken session. It is a small distinction, and it is the kind that matters if you are holding an order across it.

⚠️ This is an extension, not around-the-clock trading. Where near-24x5 already exists is on Cboe's index options — SPX, VIX, XSP and RUT — through its Global Trading Hours session. Single stock options are getting a modest widening at both ends, which is a different thing from the 24-hour headlines.

Equities are moving further. Cboe has approval for a 23/5 session on its EDGX exchange with a target later in 2026, Nasdaq has signaled 24×5 capability, and NYSE Arca has described a 22×5 plan. All of these depend on regulatory approval and on the market's shared infrastructure being ready.

And the dates have already moved once. Cboe's options launch was first targeted at 13 July 2026 and then rescheduled to 17 August 2026 while a related rule filing cleared review. That is a fair illustration of why nothing on this page is stated as certain — timelines in market structure slip, routinely.

We are watching these and will update the hours here as they take effect. For anything you are about to trade, check your broker's own hours — brokers adopt extended sessions on their own timetables, and having the exchange open does not mean your account can reach it.

Unscheduled closures happen too

These are decided at the time and cannot be worked out in advance from any rule:

• National days of mourning. US markets have closed for state funerals within living memory.
• Weather and emergencies. Extended closures have followed major storms affecting lower Manhattan.

No published calendar can know about them ahead of time, including this one. Any calendar claiming to be complete is overstating what it can do — which is why the tables above say a market is scheduled to be closed rather than that it is closed.

How we keep this current

We check these dates against the exchanges' published calendars and revise them when schedules are updated. That is our practice today, and it is the reason the page carries a "last updated" date at the top — so you can see how recently it was looked at rather than having to assume.

It is still worth confirming anything you are about to act on. If you find something here that does not match your exchange or your broker, please tell us — get in touch through the app and we will correct it.

Definitions

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These dates reflect published exchange schedules as of the date above. Schedules are subject to change and unscheduled closures can occur. Verify with your broker or the relevant exchange before making a decision that depends on it.

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