Indian stock market holidays 2026
NSE and BSE observe the same holiday calendar. 20 trading holidays this year, 17 of them on a weekday, plus one ceremonial Muhurat session on Diwali.Every 2026 holiday
Published by the exchanges. Both NSE and BSE observe this same list.What a trading holiday actually is
A trading holiday is a day the exchanges do not open. No orders match, no prices print, and the day is not counted in any calculation that runs on trading days: moving averages, delivery percentages, settlement cycles. NSE and BSE publish one list between them and observe it identically, so a holiday is never a case of one exchange being open and the other shut.
The list is announced for a full calendar year in advance, which is why planning around it is possible at all. Occasionally the exchanges add or shift a day, most often for an election or a national event, and those changes come by circular during the year.
Trading holiday and settlement holiday are not the same thing
A trading holiday closes the market. A settlement or clearing holiday closes the clearing corporation while the market itself may still run. On a clearing holiday you can buy and sell as normal, but the money and shares from that trade move a day later than they otherwise would, because the settlement pipeline pauses.
Most trading holidays are also clearing holidays. The reverse is not true, and the exchanges publish the settlement holiday list separately for exactly that reason. If a payout date matters to you, it is the settlement calendar you want, not this one.
What happens to orders and settlement around a holiday
A day order placed for a holiday is simply not sent to the exchange. Brokers either reject it or hold it until the next session opens, and the behaviour differs between brokers, so it is worth knowing which yours does. Good-till-triggered and other longer-dated orders survive the gap and become live again when the market reopens.
Settlement stretches across a holiday rather than skipping it. Under the T+1 cycle, a trade on the session before a holiday settles on the next working day, not the calendar next day. A long weekend can therefore push a payout three or four days out from the trade, which is the usual explanation when money seems slow to arrive.
Corporate action dates move with the same logic. An ex-date never falls on a holiday, so a company whose ex-date would land on one gets pushed to the following session, and the record date moves with it.