# Bell Hours (bellhours.com)

> Bell Hours answers one question, "Is the stock market open?", for the US markets: NYSE and Nasdaq stocks, options, CME index futures, forex, the SIFMA bond market and crypto. It shows the live open/closed status, a countdown to the next opening or closing bell converted to the visitor's local time zone, and the complete holiday and early-close calendars for 2026, 2027, 2028. English, US-focused, no login, no cookies, no third-party trackers (first-party, cookieless page-view counts only).

## Key facts

- US stock market regular hours: 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday to Friday. Pre-market 4:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. ET, after-hours 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET. No lunch break.
- Early closes ring the closing bell at 1:00 p.m. ET (day after Thanksgiving; Christmas Eve when it is a weekday before the holiday; July 3 when it precedes a weekday July 4).
- Options (Cboe and others): regular session 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. ET, same holidays as stocks.
- Equity index futures (CME Globex): Sunday 6:00 p.m. to Friday 5:00 p.m. ET with a daily 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. ET break; reduced hours on US holidays.
- Forex: Sunday 5:00 p.m. to Friday 5:00 p.m. ET, no official holidays.
- Bond market (SIFMA): also closed on Columbus Day and Veterans Day; early closes at 2:00 p.m. ET; Good Friday 2026 is a 12:00 p.m. close.
- Crypto: 24/7.

## Stock market holidays 2026 (NYSE and Nasdaq)

- Thursday, January 1, 2026: New Year's Day (closed)
- Monday, January 19, 2026: Martin Luther King Jr. Day (closed)
- Monday, February 16, 2026: Presidents' Day (Washington's Birthday) (closed)
- Friday, April 3, 2026: Good Friday (closed)
- Monday, May 25, 2026: Memorial Day (closed)
- Friday, June 19, 2026: Juneteenth (closed)
- Friday, July 3, 2026: Independence Day (observed) (closed)
- Monday, September 7, 2026: Labor Day (closed)
- Thursday, November 26, 2026: Thanksgiving Day (closed)
- Friday, December 25, 2026: Christmas Day (closed)
- Friday, November 27, 2026: Day after Thanksgiving (early close 1:00 p.m. ET)
- Thursday, December 24, 2026: Christmas Eve (early close 1:00 p.m. ET)

## Machine-readable data

- https://bellhours.com/holidays.json (JSON, CORS enabled, free with attribution)
- https://bellhours.com/nyse-holidays.ics (iCalendar subscription of every closure and early close)

## Pages

- https://bellhours.com/
- https://bellhours.com/stock-market-hours
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-tomorrow
- https://bellhours.com/bond-market-holidays-2026
- https://bellhours.com/press
- https://bellhours.com/embed
- https://bellhours.com/stock-market-holidays-2026
- https://bellhours.com/stock-market-holidays-2027
- https://bellhours.com/stock-market-holidays-2028
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-new-years-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-mlk-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-presidents-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-good-friday
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-memorial-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-juneteenth
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-july-4th
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-labor-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-thanksgiving
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-black-friday
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-christmas
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-christmas-eve
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-columbus-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-veterans-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-election-day
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-new-years-eve
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-easter
- https://bellhours.com/is-the-stock-market-open-on-weekends

## Sources

NYSE Hours & Calendars (nyse.com/markets/hours-calendars), Nasdaq Trading Schedule, SIFMA Holiday Schedule (sifma.org), Cboe US Options Hours, CME Group Trading Hours. Bell Hours is independent and not affiliated with any exchange.