Stock market holidays 2027 and the rest of 2026

Stock market holidays in 2027: the US stock market is closed on 10 weekdays, from New Year’s Day on Friday 1 January to Christmas Day, observed on Friday 24 December, and closes early at 1 p.m. ET on Friday 26 November. The next closure is Thanksgiving, Thursday 26 November 2026.

Stock market holidays left in 2026

After Sunday 18 October, two closures and two early closes remain on the US stock market’s 2026 calendar. Stocks trade normal hours on Election Day, Tuesday 3 November, and on Veterans Day, Wednesday 11 November.

That leaves 52 US sessions from Monday 19 October to 31 December. The US stock market hours and holidays page shows the same calendar beside the live status.

Stock market holidays 2027: 10 closures and one early close

Juneteenth, Independence Day and Christmas fall on a weekend in 2027, so the market closes on Friday 18 June, Monday 5 July and Friday 24 December instead. The one early close is the day after Thanksgiving; 2 July and 23 December are full stock sessions.

How many trading days are in 2027 splits the 251 by month.

Is the stock market open on Veterans Day and Columbus Day?

Yes. The US stock market trades normal hours on Veterans Day, Wednesday 11 November 2026 and Thursday 11 November 2027, and on Columbus Day, Monday 11 October 2027. The bond market closes on all three: its schedule includes every federal holiday, while the stock market’s calendar leaves these two out.

Official US Treasury yields skip bond market holidays such as 11 November; bond yields explained covers those daily observations.

Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Christmas week hours

The stock market and the bond market are both closed on Thanksgiving, Thursday 26 November 2026 and Thursday 25 November 2027.

Is the stock market open on Black Friday?

Yes, until 1 p.m. ET (18:00 UTC) on Friday 27 November 2026 and Friday 26 November 2027, three hours before the 4 p.m. close of normal stock market hours. After-hours trading then runs from 1 to 5 p.m. ET, and bonds stop at 2 p.m.

Is the stock market open on Christmas Eve?

In 2026, yes, until 1 p.m. ET on Thursday 24 December, with bonds until 2 p.m. In 2027, no: Christmas falls on a Saturday, so both markets close on Friday 24 December, and bonds stop at 2 p.m. on the 23rd.

Is the stock market open on New Year’s Eve?

Yes, for a full session on Thursday 31 December 2026 and Friday 31 December 2027, while the bond market closes at 2 p.m. ET in both years. Abroad, the same three days look like this:

London also closes on Monday 28 December 2026 and on 27 and 28 December 2027, and Hong Kong on 27 December 2027. Frankfurt, Tokyo and Seoul shut on New Year’s Eve in both years; London market hours and holidays lists the UK year.

Bond market holidays 2026 and 2027

The bond market closes on 12 weekdays in 2027: the 10 stock market holidays plus Columbus Day and Veterans Day. It closes at 2 p.m. ET on six more: Thursday 25 March, Friday 28 May, Friday 2 July, Friday 26 November, Thursday 23 December and Friday 31 December.

For the rest of 2026 it closes on 11 and 26 November and 25 December, and at 2 p.m. ET on 27 November and 24 and 31 December. SIFMA, the bond industry’s association, published the 2027 dates in December 2025 as recommendations, not rules. TickerLayer’s holiday calendar covers stock markets, not this schedule.

2027 stock market holidays around the world

Across the 17 stock markets with a complete 2027 calendar, weekday closures run from 3 in France and Spain to 19 in Taiwan; the US has 10.

France and Spain close on only three weekdays because their 1 May and Christmas holidays fall on the 2027 weekend; there, as in Frankfurt, a weekend holiday is not moved to a weekday.

Good Friday, 26 March 2027, closes 11 of the 17 markets; Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Istanbul and Bangkok trade, and Riyadh has its Friday weekend. New Year’s Day, also a Friday, closes all 16 markets that trade on Fridays.

London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2027

London closes on 1 January, 26 and 29 March, 3 and 31 May, 30 August and 27 and 28 December, with half days ending at 12:30 London time on 24 and 31 December. Frankfurt closes on 1 January, 26 and 29 March and 24 and 31 December.

Tokyo closes on 17 weekdays, in every month but June; its only run of consecutive closures is Golden Week, 3 to 5 May. Hong Kong closes on 13 weekdays, including 8 and 9 February for the lunar new year, and trades mornings only on 5 February and 24 and 31 December. All four official lists match the API row for row, and Japan market hours and holidays shows Tokyo’s.

Mumbai, Shanghai and Dubai: 2027 not in the calendar yet

For India, China and the UAE the API returns an empty 2027 list marked completeness: "partial": India’s 2027 exchange holidays were not yet published, and its 2026 list came out in December 2025. Treat any 2027 date there as unknown, not open.

The next closures around the world

When is the stock market closed? The rules behind the dates

The US stock market is closed on weekends and on 10 weekday holidays in both 2026 and 2027. A holiday that falls on a weekend moves: from Saturday to the Friday before, from Sunday to the Monday after.

One exception keeps Friday 31 December 2027 open. New Year’s Day 2028 is a Saturday, and the official calendar notes that "no New Year’s Day holiday is observed", so the year ends on a full session for stocks and a 2 p.m. close for bonds.

Good Friday is not a federal holiday, yet the stock market closes on it in every published year: 3 April 2026, 26 March 2027 and 14 April 2028. Tokyo moves Sunday holidays to the Monday, which is why Vernal Equinox Day closes it on Monday 22 March 2027.

Stock market holiday calendars from an API

GET /markets/holidays returns a market’s year of closures and early closes in one request:

{
  "market": "US",
  "year": 2027,
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "holidays": [
    {
      "date": "2027-06-18",
      "name": "Juneteenth National Independence Day observed",1
      "schedule": "closed",2
      "is_open": false,
      "observed": true,3
      "memo": null4
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-11-26",
      "name": "Post-holiday early close",
      "schedule": "early_close",
      "is_open": true,
      "observed": true,
      "memo": "Early close"
    },
    {
      "date": "2027-12-24",
      "name": "Christmas Day observed",
      "schedule": "closed",
      "is_open": false,
      "observed": true,
      "memo": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "calendar_version": "v1-static-2026-2027",5
    "start": "2027-01-01",
    "end": "2027-12-31",
    "data_notice": "Holiday calendars are indicative and may change.",
    "completeness": "full"6
  }
}

holidays_to_ics.py fetches the 2027 calendars for the US, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo and Hong Kong, five requests in all, and writes an .ics file with an all-day event per closure and early close. It needs Python 3.9 or newer, the standard library and a TICKERLAYER_API_KEY environment variable.

"""Write five stock markets' 2027 holidays to an .ics calendar. Python 3.9+, standard library only."""
import json
import os
import sys
import urllib.error
import urllib.parse
import urllib.request
from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, timezone

API = "https://api.tickerlayer.com"
KEY = os.environ.get("TICKERLAYER_API_KEY") or sys.exit("Set TICKERLAYER_API_KEY first.")
YEAR = 2027
MARKETS = ["US", "GB", "DE", "JP", "HK"]  # all five trade Monday to Friday
OUT = f"market-holidays-{YEAR}.ics"


def holidays(market):
    """One request: a market's closures and early closes for YEAR."""
    query = urllib.parse.urlencode({"market": market, "year": YEAR})
    req = urllib.request.Request(f"{API}/markets/holidays?{query}", headers={"x-api-key": KEY})
    try:
        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as resp:
            return json.load(resp)
    except urllib.error.HTTPError as err:
        sys.exit(f"{market}: HTTP {err.code} {err.read().decode()}")


def ics_text(text):
    """Escape the characters RFC 5545 reserves in text values."""
    return text.replace("\\", "\\\\").replace(",", "\\,").replace(";", "\\;")


stamp = datetime.now(timezone.utc).strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ")
lines = ["BEGIN:VCALENDAR", "VERSION:2.0", "PRODID:-//market-holidays//EN", "CALSCALE:GREGORIAN"]
print("market  closed  early  weekend  early closes")
for market in MARKETS:
    cal = holidays(market)
    if cal["meta"]["completeness"] != "full" or not cal["holidays"]:
        print(f"{market:<6}  no full {YEAR} calendar yet")  # India, China, UAE in 2027
        continue
    closed, early, weekend = [], [], 0
    for row in cal["holidays"]:
        day = date.fromisoformat(row["date"])
        if day.weekday() >= 5:  # a holiday on a Saturday or Sunday closes nothing
            weekend += 1
            continue
        is_closed = row["schedule"] == "closed"
        (closed if is_closed else early).append(day)
        what = "closed" if is_closed else "early close"
        lines += [
            "BEGIN:VEVENT",
            f"UID:{market}-{day:%Y%m%d}@market-holidays",
            f"DTSTAMP:{stamp}",
            f"DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:{day:%Y%m%d}",
            f"DTEND;VALUE=DATE:{day + timedelta(days=1):%Y%m%d}",
            f"SUMMARY:{market} {what}: {ics_text(row['name'])}",
            "TRANSP:TRANSPARENT",
            "END:VEVENT",
        ]
    dates = ", ".join(f"{d:%b} {d.day}" for d in early) or "none"
    print(f"{market:<6}  {len(closed):>6}  {len(early):>5}  {weekend:>7}  {dates}")
lines.append("END:VCALENDAR")

with open(OUT, "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="") as f:
    f.write("\r\n".join(lines) + "\r\n")
print(f"wrote {OUT}: {lines.count('BEGIN:VEVENT')} events")

market  closed  early  weekend  early closes
US          10      1        0  Nov 26
GB           8      2        0  Dec 24, Dec 31
DE           5      0        3  none
JP          17      0        0  none
HK          13      3        0  Feb 5, Dec 24, Dec 31
wrote market-holidays-2027.ics: 59 events

The weekend column is Frankfurt’s 1 May, 25 and 26 December. For open or closed right now, use GET /markets/status from the exchange calendar API guide; AI agents get the same calendar from the MCP tool get_market_holidays.