Is the stock market open on Election Day 2026? The election week calendar
Yes. The US stock market is open on Election Day, Tuesday November 3, 2026, with a regular session from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. Election Day is not an NYSE holiday or early close.
Five scheduled events between October 27 and November 10, 2026, in the order they occur in Eastern Time, each one read off the schedule its own publisher maintains. Times are publication times. Nothing on this page describes what the period is like to trade.
Priced move by session
Bars show the ATM implied-volatility forward variance; whiskers show the ATM straddle cross-check, not a confidence interval or an independent estimate. Ordinary sessions exclude weekends and the listed FOMC, CPI and payrolls dates. This is a risk-neutral price of movement read off option prices: what the option market charges for a one-standard-deviation move over the interval, not a measure of how far the index has moved on such days or a claim about how far it will. Option prices carry a variance risk premium, so this figure reads larger than realized moves on average.
| Session | Scheduled events | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±0.97% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-23 close to 2026-10-26 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±0.97%. As of Oct 23, 2026, 03:41 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. Last good reading, with its original as-of. No listed expiration for 2026-10-26 on the current chain; the retained interval is not inferred. |
| 2026-10-27 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±0.62% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-26 close to 2026-10-27 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±0.62%. As of Oct 26, 2026, 03:35 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. Last good reading, with its original as-of. No listed expiration for 2026-10-27 on the current chain; the retained interval is not inferred. |
| 2026-10-28 | FOMC meeting, 2026-10-27 to 2026-10-28 (https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm, checked 2026-09-14) | SPX options price about ±0.76% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-27 close to 2026-10-28 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±0.76%. As of Oct 27, 2026, 03:30 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. Last good reading, with its original as-of. No listed expiration for 2026-10-28 on the current chain; the retained interval is not inferred. |
| 2026-10-29 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±0.84% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-28 close to 2026-10-29 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±0.85%. As of Oct 28, 2026, 03:19 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. Last good reading, with its original as-of. No listed expiration for 2026-10-29 on the current chain; the retained interval is not inferred. |
| 2026-10-30 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±0.76% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-29 close to 2026-10-30 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±0.76%. As of Oct 29, 2026, 03:42 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. Last good reading, with its original as-of. |
| 2026-11-02 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±1.27% (one standard deviation), 2026-10-30 close to 2026-11-02 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±1.27%. As of Oct 30, 2026, 02:17 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. |
| 2026-11-03 | Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey, 2026-11-03 (https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm, checked 2026-09-14) | SPX options price about ±1.19% (one standard deviation), 2026-11-02 close to 2026-11-03 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±1.19%. As of Oct 30, 2026, 02:17 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. |
| 2026-11-04 | Election Day, 2026-11-03 (https://dos.fl.gov/elections/for-voters/election-dates, checked 2026-09-14) | SPX options price about ±1.30% (one standard deviation), 2026-11-03 close to 2026-11-04 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±1.30%. As of Oct 30, 2026, 02:17 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. |
| 2026-11-05 | No event in the stored clock | SPX options price about ±1.13% (one standard deviation), 2026-11-04 close to 2026-11-05 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±1.13%. As of Oct 30, 2026, 02:17 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. |
| 2026-11-06 | Employment Situation, 2026-11-06 (https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm, checked 2026-09-14) | SPX options price about ±1.29% (one standard deviation), 2026-11-05 close to 2026-11-06 close. ATM straddle cross-check: about ±1.29%. As of Oct 30, 2026, 02:17 PM ET, delayed SPX option chain. Risk-neutral, not a forecast. |
Chronology
Swipe the table sideways for the event and publisher.
| Eastern Time | Your local time | Event | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
October 27 to 28, 2026 no published clock time | two calendar days, not a moment | FOMC meeting | Federal Reserve Board |
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 no published clock time | a calendar day, not a moment | Election Day | Official state election calendar |
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 10:00 a.m. ET | reading your time zone | Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Friday, November 6, 2026 8:30 a.m. ET | reading your time zone | Employment Situation | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 8:30 a.m. ET | reading your time zone | Consumer Price Index | Bureau of Labor Statistics |
United States daylight time ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026. October 27 and 28 are four hours behind UTC, and the three November entries are five hours behind it. The local column converts from the stored instant, so it stays right across that change.
Add these to your calendar
Download the ICS file and import it into any calendar application. The timed entries are stored as UTC instants, so your calendar renders them in whatever time zone it is set to. The 30 minute block each timed entry occupies is a calendar convenience: the publishers schedule a release moment, not a duration. The two entries without a published clock time are written as all-day events.
What each entry is
FOMC meeting
October 27 to 28, 2026
A scheduled two-day meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee. The Federal Reserve publishes the meeting dates; this page does not restate a statement time it did not read off that calendar.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm (checked 2026-09-14)
Election Day
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
The date of the general election. Poll hours, counting procedure and certification deadlines differ by state and are not on this page.
https://dos.fl.gov/elections/for-voters/election-dates (checked 2026-09-14)
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
Tuesday, November 3, 2026, 10:00 a.m. ET
Job openings, hires and separations counts, published on the BLS November 2026 release schedule.
https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm (checked 2026-09-14)
Employment Situation
Friday, November 6, 2026, 8:30 a.m. ET
The monthly payroll and household survey release, the report usually referred to as payrolls.
https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm (checked 2026-09-14)
Consumer Price Index
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 8:30 a.m. ET
The monthly consumer price index release, including the seasonally adjusted and unadjusted series.
https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm (checked 2026-09-14)
What this page does not say
- These are scheduled publication dates and times. The page makes no claim about how any market behaves around them.
- It does not state when any election result becomes known. Counting and certification are run by individual states on their own timetables, and none of those timetables is a publication schedule.
- Poll hours and voting deadlines differ by state and are not listed here. The election date link below is a state election calendar, quoted for the date of the general election only.
- Schedules change. Every row links the publisher that owns the date, checked on 2026-09-14. When a publisher moves a date, the source will show it before this page does.
Sources
- https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm
- https://www.bls.gov/schedule/2026/11_sched.htm
- https://dos.fl.gov/elections/for-voters/election-dates
- https://www.bls.gov/opub/copyright-information.htm
- https://www.federalreserve.gov/disclaimer.htm
Bureau of Labor Statistics publications and Federal Reserve Board material are government publications. The last two links above are those publishers stating their own reuse terms.
The rest of the dated calendar is at /calendar, which carries the 2026 options expiration, VIX expiration and SPX settlement dates. A plain-text copy of this page is at /calendar/election-week-2026.md. Educational content, not financial advice.