Making plans beforehand about stock market holidays is very useful to investors and traders in planning their trades. NSE and BSE shut down operations in equity, equity derivatives, and currency markets on such days, despite some commodity sections possibly opening a few hours.
People who are mindful of the holidays are not caught up at the last minute, and particularly the traders who are either in intraday positions or expiry-driven strategies. Settlement and fund plans have their significance in market holidays. The fact that there is no trading these days causes settlements to be rolled over to the following working day.
These are the key dates that should be remembered by investors intending to open IPO applications, SIP debits, or huge fund transfers to avoid delays. To the long term investors, holidays might be of no direct consequence to their portfolio, but they can influence liquidity and execution schedule.
Another point to be noted is that the Indian markets may not be open, yet the global markets may be open. This might cause any upward or downward disparity at the beginning of the following day of trading, following a major event in the world. During these breaks, traders tend to re-evaluate their strategies, review the global indicators, and be ready to start the next session. These also sometimes lead to a gap up or gap down when the market resumes.
HolidaysSr. NoDateDayName of Holidays126-Jan-2026MondayRepublic Day203-Mar-2026TuesdayHoli326-Mar-2026ThursdayShri Ram Navami431-Mar-2026TuesdayShri Mahavir Jayanti503-Apr-2026FridayGood Friday614-Apr-2026TuesdayDr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti701-May-2026FridayMaharashtra Day828-May-2026ThursdayBakri Id926-Jun-2026FridayMuharram1014-Sep-2026MondayGanesh Chaturthi1102-Oct-2026FridayMahatma Gandhi Jayanti1220-Oct-2026TuesdayDussehra1310-Nov-2026TuesdayDiwali-Balipratipada1424-Nov-2026TuesdayPrakash Gurpurb Sri Guru Nanak Dev1525-Dec-2026FridayChristmas
Although there are several market holidays in the year, Indian stock exchanges opt to be open during the day of a special one-hour trading session that is called Muhurat Trading on the day of Diwali. This session is regarded as extremely favourable and is thought to be a new dawn for investors. Though the volumes of trading tend to be low, many investors, symbolically, make trades to close the celebration and open the new financial year in a good mood.
In addition to Muhurat Trading, other extremely rare events, which have been subjected to the special trading sessions, include national events, technological upgrades, or disaster recovery tests, in which exchanges subject systems to live market conditions. Exchanges have also announced, in certain years before major changes like new trading platforms or settlement mechanisms, that there will be mock trading.
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