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Stock Market Holiday: NSE, BSE closed on January 15 for Maharashtra civic polls; Check full markets holiday calendar for 2026

Stock Market, NSE, BSE Holiday List: NSE and BSE will remain closed on January 15, 2026, due to the Maharashtra civic body elections.

3 min readUpdated: Jan 15, 2026 07:49 AM IST

Both BSE (in photo) and NSE will remain closed on January 15 (Express Archive Photo)

Stock Market Holiday List 2026: The bourses (NSE and BSE) will remain closed on January 15, 2026, on account of the Maharashtra civic body elections. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has declared January 15 as a trading holiday for the capital market segment. The Exchange in a notification declared “Thursday, January 15, 2026, as a trading holiday for debt segment on account of Municipal Corporation Elections in Maharashtra”.

Earlier, the exchange had indicated that trading would continue on January 15, leading to confusion among investors and market participants. The NSE has now clarified the position and confirmed the holiday. Along with this announcement, the exchange has also released the complete list of market holidays for the year, month by month.

The Bombay Stock Exchange, too, declared a holiday on January 15 for both equity and derivatives segments.

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NSE & BSE Trading Holiday Calendar 2026

Month	Date	Occasion
January	January 15	Municipal Corporation Elections (Maharashtra)
January	January 26	Republic Day
February	—	No trading holidays (except weekends)
March	March 26	Shri Ram Navami
March	March 31	Shri Mahavir Jayanti
April	April 3	Good Friday
April	April 14	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Jayanti
May	May 1	Maharashtra Day
May	May 28	Bakr Eid
June	June 26	Muharram
July & August	—	No trading holidays (except weekends)
September	September 14	Ganesh Chaturthi
October	October 2	Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti
October	October 20	Dussehra
November	November 8	Diwali Laxmi Pujan (Muhurat Trading)
November	November 10	Diwali Balipratipada
November*	November 24	Prakash Gurpurab of Sri Guru Nanak Dev
December	December 25	Christmas

*November 08, 2026, will be a trading holiday due to Diwali Laxmi Puja. However, Muhurat trading will be conducted on that day. The timings will be notified later.

Market participants are advised to plan their trading activities accordingly and keep track of any further updates issued by the exchange.

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Maharashtra civic body elections 2026

The elections to 29 civic bodies in Maharashtra, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, will be held on January 15 and the results will be declared a day later on January 16. A total of 2,869 seats across 893 wards are up for the grabs and 15,931 candidates are in the fray.

This is the first time the BMC is going to polls after the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party split. This election will also see Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) come together for the first time.