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Stock market hours in Eastern Time

The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq hold their regular session from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM ET, Monday to Friday, except on exchange holidays – and close at 1:00 PM on a few holiday eves.

Regular session now
9:30 AM–4:00 PM ET, Mon–Fri
Time in New York
--:-- ET
Session in your time
2:30–9:00 PM in London most weeks
Early closes
1:00 PM ET

The status above uses the NYSE holiday calendar for 2026 and 2027 and updates in your browser.

What are the NYSE and Nasdaq trading hours?

The core session opens with an auction at 9:30 AM ET and ends with a closing auction at 4:00 PM ET – six and a half hours. Those two auctions produce the official opening and closing prices that indexes, funds and the evening news use. Because the session is defined in New York's local time, it follows the city's clock through EST and EDT; check the time in New York or the live Eastern Time clock if you are unsure which offset applies.

Around the core session sit thinner extended-hours sessions. NYSE Arca and Nasdaq accept trades from 4:00 AM to 9:30 AM ET (pre-market) and from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET (after-hours); NYSE American, NYSE National and NYSE Texas start at 7:00 AM. The NYSE itself trades its own listings only in the core session. Prices in these sessions can move sharply on small volume, and many brokers accept only limit orders.

Longer days are coming. In April 2026 the SEC approved Nasdaq's proposal to trade 23 hours a day, five days a week; the added 9:00 PM–4:00 AM night session can start only once the consolidated market-data feeds support overnight trading and a launch date is set. The 9:30 AM–4:00 PM session and its auctions stay unchanged.

US equity sessions in Eastern Time (NYSE and Nasdaq published hours)
SessionNYSENYSE ArcaNasdaq
Pre-market / early trading—4:00–9:30 AM4:00–9:30 AM
Regular (core) session9:30 AM–4:00 PM9:30 AM–4:00 PM9:30 AM–4:00 PM
After-hours / late trading—4:00–8:00 PM4:00–8:00 PM
Early-close daysCore ends 1:00 PMCore 1:00 PM, late to 5:00 PMCore ends 1:00 PM

When is the stock market closed in 2026 and 2027?

The NYSE and Nasdaq usually close on ten weekdays a year. When a holiday falls on a Saturday the exchanges close the Friday before – Juneteenth and Christmas in 2027 – and when it falls on a Sunday they close the Monday after, as with July 5, 2027. The exception is New Year's Day: January 1, 2028 is a Saturday, and the NYSE will not close on Friday, December 31, 2027.

Good Friday is an exchange holiday although it is not a federal one, while Columbus Day and Veterans Day are federal holidays on which stocks trade normally. Juneteenth joined the calendar in 2022. Early closes at 1:00 PM fall on the day after Thanksgiving and, in some years, on Christmas Eve or July 3 – so 2026 has two and 2027 only one.

NYSE and Nasdaq holidays and early closes, 2026–2027 (source: nyse.com)
Holiday20262027
New Year's DayThu, Jan 1Fri, Jan 1
Martin Luther King Jr. DayMon, Jan 19Mon, Jan 18
Washington's BirthdayMon, Feb 16Mon, Feb 15
Good FridayFri, Apr 3Fri, Mar 26
Memorial DayMon, May 25Mon, May 31
JuneteenthFri, Jun 19Fri, Jun 18 (observed)
Independence DayFri, Jul 3 (observed)Mon, Jul 5 (observed)
Labor DayMon, Sep 7Mon, Sep 6
Thanksgiving DayThu, Nov 26Thu, Nov 25
Christmas DayFri, Dec 25Fri, Dec 24 (observed)
Early close, 1:00 PMFri, Nov 27 · Thu, Dec 24Fri, Nov 26

What time does the US stock market open in London, Frankfurt, Mumbai, Tokyo and Sydney?

The session never moves in New York, but it moves abroad whenever the clocks on the two sides change on different dates. London and Frankfurt get the US open in mid-afternoon, which gives two hours of overlap with the London Stock Exchange (closing 4:30 PM) and Xetra (closing 5:30 PM) – and three hours in the daylight saving mismatch weeks, when North America has changed and Europe has not. India and Japan never change their clocks, so the session starts an hour earlier there from March to November (see EST to IST and EST to JST). For Sydney the US day is an overnight session, and the gap swings with both hemispheres' changes.

The 9:30 AM–4:00 PM ET session in local time, November 2026 – November 2027
US trading weeksLondonFrankfurtMumbaiTokyoSydney
Nov 2, 2026 – Mar 12, 20272:30–9:00 PM3:30–10:00 PM8:00 PM–2:30 AM⁺¹11:30 PM–6:00 AM⁺¹1:30–8:00 AM⁺¹
Mar 15–26, 2027 (mismatch)1:30–8:00 PM2:30–9:00 PM7:00 PM–1:30 AM⁺¹10:30 PM–5:00 AM⁺¹12:30–7:00 AM⁺¹
Mar 29 – Apr 2, 20272:30–9:00 PM3:30–10:00 PM7:00 PM–1:30 AM⁺¹10:30 PM–5:00 AM⁺¹12:30–7:00 AM⁺¹
Apr 5 – Oct 1, 20272:30–9:00 PM3:30–10:00 PM7:00 PM–1:30 AM⁺¹10:30 PM–5:00 AM⁺¹11:30 PM–6:00 AM⁺¹
Oct 4–29, 20272:30–9:00 PM3:30–10:00 PM7:00 PM–1:30 AM⁺¹10:30 PM–5:00 AM⁺¹12:30–7:00 AM⁺¹
Nov 1–5, 2027 (mismatch)1:30–8:00 PM2:30–9:00 PM7:00 PM–1:30 AM⁺¹10:30 PM–5:00 AM⁺¹12:30–7:00 AM⁺¹
From Nov 8, 20272:30–9:00 PM3:30–10:00 PM8:00 PM–2:30 AM⁺¹11:30 PM–6:00 AM⁺¹1:30–8:00 AM⁺¹

⁺¹ = the next calendar day locally (a Monday session ends on Tuesday morning in Asia and Australia). On the 1:00 PM ET early-close days in 2026 and 2027 the session ends at 6:00 PM in London, 7:00 PM in Frankfurt, 11:30 PM in Mumbai, 3:00 AM⁺¹ in Tokyo and 5:00 AM⁺¹ in Sydney. For any other date, use the time zone converter.

Why does the stock market open at 9:30 AM?

For most of its history the NYSE opened at 10:00 AM. The close was pushed later in 1952, when Saturday sessions ended, and reached 4:00 PM in 1974. The 10:00 AM–4:00 PM day lasted until 1985, when the opening bell moved half an hour earlier to 9:30 AM; the six-and-a-half-hour session has not changed since. The move came while the exchange was studying longer hours – in 1984 it began looking at round-the-clock trading – because NYSE-listed shares increasingly traded in London and Tokyo while New York was closed.

Geography explains why it has not opened earlier since. The United States spans four mainland time zones, and 9:30 AM in New York is already 6:30 AM in California. When the NYSE floated an earlier open in 2005 to win European orders, West Coast firms were among those who objected, and the idea was dropped. The same arithmetic makes the 4:00 PM close a 1:00 PM close for Los Angeles traders, who start and end their day by the Eastern clock.

Frequently asked questions

Does daylight saving time change the stock market's hours?

No. The session is always 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern Time, on EST in winter and EDT in summer, and the clocks change on Sundays when the market is closed. What moves is the session's time abroad, by one hour, wherever the clocks do not change on the same date.

Is the stock market open on weekends?

No. There is no regular session on Saturday or Sunday, and extended-hours trading ends at 8:00 PM ET on Friday. Nasdaq's planned overnight session would resume on Sunday evening, but the regular session still starts on Monday at 9:30 AM ET.

Why does the 4:00 PM close matter so much?

The closing auction at 4:00 PM ET sets each stock's official closing price. Index levels, fund valuations and many benchmark trades are based on it, which is why trading volume spikes in the final minutes.

Which time zone do exchange calendars and quotes use?

Eastern Time. NYSE and Nasdaq publish every session, auction and early close in ET, and switch between EST and EDT with New York. A trade stamped 16:00 happened at 4:00 PM in New York, whatever the offset that day.

Can I trade US stocks on a US market holiday from abroad?

Not on the exchanges: a holiday closes the NYSE and Nasdaq for everyone, whatever your local date. Some brokers quote US shares on other venues, but there is no regular session and no official close that day.

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