While major stock markets around the world observed a holiday on New Year’s Day, with no trading on January 1, 2025, the Indian stock markets remained open as usual on Wednesday. The Indian stock markets – the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE) – will observe their first holiday of 2025 on February 26, for the occasion of Mahashivratri.
According to the official holiday calendar released by the BSE and NSE, the stock markets will remain closed on 14 days this year. These include major religious festivals such as Eid, Diwali, and Christmas, as well as national holidays such as Independence Day and Gandhi Jayanti.
As financial markets gear up for a better run in 2025, here’s the complete list of BSE and NSE holidays:
Mahashivratri | February 26,2025 | Wednesday |
Holi | March 14, 2025 | Friday |
Id-Ul-Fitr (Ramzan Id) | March 31,2025 | Monday |
Shri Mahavir Jayanti | April 10,2025 | Thursday |
Dr.Baba Saheb Ambedkar Jayanti | April 14,2025 | Monday |
Good Friday | April 18,2025 | Friday |
Maharashtra Day | May 01,2025 | Thursday |
Independence Day | August 15,2025 | Friday |
Ganesh Chaturthi | August 27,2025 | Wednesday |
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti/Dussehra | October 02,2025 | Thursday |
Diwali * Laxmi Pujan | October 21,2025 | Tuesday |
Diwali Balipratipada | October 22,2025 | Wednesday |
Prakash Gurpurb Sri Guru Nanak Dev | November 05,2025 | Wednesday |
Christmas | December 25,2025 | Thursday |
In 2025, the festival of Deepawali will be celebrated on October 21. As per the NSE, the schedule of 'muhurat trading' on Laxmi Pujan will be announced via a separate circular in October.
Which trading holidays are falling on Saturdays and Sundays?
The current holiday calendar includes only 14 non-trading days, as four gazetted holidays fall on either a Saturday or Sunday. In India, stock markets do not operate on weekends. The four holidays falling on weekends are as follows:
Republic Day | 26-Jan-2025 | Sunday |
Shri Ram Navami | 06-Apr-2025 | Sunday |
Bakri Id | 07-Jun-2025 | Saturday |
Muharram | 06-Jul-2025 | Sunday |
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