Muhurat trading 2026 falls on Sun, 8 Nov, 2026 — and the timings are still not published
The date is settled and the hours are not. NSE's 2026 holiday circular puts a Muhurat session on Sun, 8 Nov, 2026, a Sunday, and carries a note against it saying the timings will be notified separately. As at 4 September 2026 — 65 days out — that circular has not appeared. There is a reason to care beyond the trivia: the closing auction went live in August, and it changes the shape of the end of a special session, so this year's timings cannot be inferred from any previous year's.
What you will take away
- The date is on the annual circular: Sun, 8 Nov, 2026, a Sunday.
- The hours are not, and the circular says so in its own words rather than leaving them out silently.
- The end of the session is now defined relative to the session's own close, not at fixed clock times — which is part of why the timings need their own circular.
- An answer copied from a previous year is not evidence about this one. The date moves every year and the structure of the day changed in August.
What is published, and what is not
| The question | The published answer | Where that answer comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Which date? | Sun, 8 Nov, 2026, a Sunday | NSE/CMTR/71775 |
| Is the date on the holiday circular? | Yes — as Diwali Laxmi Pujan, one of the weekend dates the circular names. | NSE/CMTR/71775 |
| What are the hours? | Not published. The calendar carries the exchange's own note instead: “Muhurat Trading timings to be notified separately by NSE.” | NSE/CMTR/71775 |
| How does the day end? | By the closing auction, on a clock measured from the session's own close rather than at a fixed time. | SEBI circular, para 4.2.5 |
| What about the days either side? | Mon, 9 Nov, 2026 is an ordinary trading day; Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 is a trading holiday. | NSE/CMTR/71775 |
The third row is the whole post. The exchange did not omit the timings; it recorded that they are notified separately, and that note travels with the date on the calendar. An honest answer to "what time is Muhurat trading" on 4 September 2026 is that nobody outside the exchange knows yet.
A missing value that the source itself flags as pending is information. A missing value quietly filled in with last year's number is not.
Why this year's session ends differently
This is the part a reader will not find on a page that recycles last year's copy. Since 3 August 2026 the closing price of a stock that has derivative contracts on it is struck in an auction rather than averaged over the last half hour of trading, and the circular that introduced it says explicitly how that works on a special trading day.
- The closing price of cash-segment stocks in a special trading session is determined by the closing auction, exactly as on an ordinary trading day.
- The auction lasts the same 20 minutes in a special session as it does on an ordinary day.
- The derivative segment closes ten minutes after the auction's order entry period closes.
- A ten-minute post-close session begins ten minutes after the derivative segment closes.
What the days either side look like
The session sits inside an unusual stretch of calendar. Sun, 8 Nov, 2026 is a Sunday the market is normally shut on. Mon, 9 Nov, 2026 is an ordinary trading day. Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 is a trading holiday. Three consecutive days, three different states.
A calendar that stores one open-or-shut flag per date cannot represent the first of those three. It will report the market closed on a day a session runs, which is the failure this site's calendar deliberately avoids by keeping a scheduled-but-untimed session as its own state.
How to tell when the answer changes
The timings arrive in their own circular, the way the annual calendar says they will. Until then, the market-status page on this site refuses to state an opening time for that date and refuses to call it shut — because both would be claims the published record does not support.
Limits, honestly stated
- No timing is stated here because none is published. Nothing on this page should be read as an estimate of one.
- The rules about how a special session ends come from the circular that introduced the closing auction. How the exchange applies them to this particular session will be in that session's own circular.
- The closing auction covers cash-segment stocks that have derivative contracts on them. Other securities keep the earlier method, on a special session as on any other day.
- This is a description of a published calendar and a published framework. It is not advice, and it says nothing about what anyone ought to do on the day.
- NSE/CMTR/71775 — NSE Capital Market holiday calendar for 2026 (opens in a new tab) — The date, the day of the week, the holiday name carried against it, and the exchange's own note that the timings are notified separately. It also carries the 6 weekday trading holidays left in the year, including the one two days after this session. (checked )
- SEBI circular HO/47/11/11(3)2025-MRD-POD2/I/2765/2026 dated 16 January 2026 (opens in a new tab) — Para 4.2.5, which is the part that makes this year's session structurally different from earlier ones: it applies the closing auction to special trading sessions and defines the derivative-segment close and the post-close window relative to the auction, not at fixed clock times. Para 4.2.1 is where the auction's own length comes from. (checked )
Make it concrete
Is the market open today?
Resolves that Sunday as a scheduled session with unpublished hours, rather than guessing either way.
Open →Glossary: Muhurat trading
What the session is, and what it is not.
Open →The closing auction, explained
The mechanism the rules above are borrowed from, in full.
Open →NSE market & clearing calendar 2026
The full year, including the weekend dates that carry a holiday name.
Open →Frequently asked
What time is Muhurat trading in 2026?
Not published as at 4 September 2026. The annual NSE holiday circular schedules the session on Sun, 8 Nov, 2026 and carries the note that the timings are notified separately. No timing circular had been issued when this post was written.
Is Sun, 8 Nov, 2026 a holiday or a trading day?
Both descriptions are wrong on their own. It is a Sunday, it appears on the holiday circular under Diwali Laxmi Pujan, and a session is scheduled on it whose hours have not been published.
Is the market open the next day?
Mon, 9 Nov, 2026 is an ordinary trading day on the 2026 calendar. Tue, 10 Nov, 2026 is a trading holiday.
Does the closing auction apply to a special session?
Yes. The SEBI circular states that the closing price in a special trading session is also determined by the auction, that it runs for the same 20 minutes, and that the derivative segment and the post-close window are placed ten minutes apart after it.
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