Is the Stock Market Open on Columbus Day 2026?

Is the stock market open on Columbus Day 2026? Yes. NYSE and Nasdaq schedule regular stock trading on Monday, October 12, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. SIFMA recommends a holiday closure for the U.S. bond markets it covers. A federal holiday therefore does not give you one answer for every financial market.

Schedule information checked through: October 10, 2026. Publication and update date: October 10, 2026, America/Phoenix (UTC−07:00). The holiday falls on October 12. This article describes published schedules, which exchanges can change; it includes no live prices or observed October 12 returns.

Is the stock market open on Columbus Day 2026? The schedules

The NYSE holiday calendar and trading hours and Nasdaq's 2026 schedule do not list October 12 as a stock-market closure or early close. Both exchanges list the regular session as 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.

Readers also search for this date as Indigenous Peoples' Day. The exchange schedules answer the stock-trading question for the same Monday. For bank access, check your bank's own notice rather than assuming its branches follow the stock exchange.

SIFMA's holiday recommendations cover specified U.S. dollar-denominated fixed-income markets, including government, corporate and municipal bonds. SIFMA issues a recommendation, so avoid treating it as an exchange order covering every instrument. The Federal Reserve separately publishes its October 12 holiday instructions.

October 12 stock market hours in Phoenix

On October 12, New York observes Eastern Daylight Time, UTC−04:00. Phoenix stays on Mountain Standard Time, UTC−07:00. The regular stock session therefore runs 6:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Phoenix.

Use the date as well as the time zone when converting hours. Timeanddate documents New York's daylight-saving changes and Phoenix's unchanged UTC−07:00 offset. The offset between the cities changes when New York returns to standard time; the October conversion does not apply throughout the year.

These hours describe the regular stock session. They do not describe a broker's order-handling rules or every extended-hours venue.

A holiday date and a closing-price date are different inputs

For a historical portfolio comparison, first identify the session you want to measure. October 12 is scheduled to produce a regular stock close even though the federal holiday calendar includes it.

During the preceding weekend, a daily closing-price series may still end on Friday, October 9. Saturday and Sunday supply no new regular NYSE or Nasdaq stock session. Reading Friday as the last available close on Saturday does not establish that the data are stale. Reading Friday as the last available close after Monday's scheduled session requires another check: has the data provider delivered Monday's observations?

An open exchange cannot guarantee that a particular app already has the latest completed close. Inspect the source's timestamp and the chart's Data through label before describing a move as “today's return.”

For a hypothetical stock with a Friday close of $100 and a Monday close of $102, the close-to-close change is:

($102 ÷ $100 − 1) × 100 = 2%

That calculation spans three calendar days and one subsequent regular stock session. It does not imply a 2% gain on each day, reveal the path within Monday, or measure an actual October 12 stock result.

Read the dates in an Equity Replay comparison

Open the stock and ETF comparison and inspect the dates beside each available history. For an illustrative allocation in the portfolio builder, record the full starting date, ending date and Data through label before comparing it with another replay.

Equity Replay aligns portfolio holdings to dates shared by their available closing-price series. If one holding lacks a date that others have, the combined replay cannot use that date. A market calendar helps you identify expected sessions; it cannot supply a missing price or explain a provider's delivery delay.

The historical replay methodology explains the shared-date calculation. Our portfolio chart guide explains why changing the window changes the question. Check price return versus total return when comparing the replay with a fund report that includes dividends.

Equity Replay is an educational historical simulator, not investment advice, a broker or a record of trades. It applies starting weights once to historical closing-price movement and excludes trading execution, dividends, fees, taxes, deposits, withdrawals and rebalancing. A holiday schedule establishes planned market hours; it supplies no forecast or instruction to buy, hold, sell or rebalance.