OPEX Calendar 2026: Monthly Options Expiration Dates
Every 2026 monthly options expiration date, read off the published options expiration calendar, with the last trading day for standard A.M.-settled index options and the June exception.
Read off the exchange document below rather than computed from a date rule. Educational content, not financial advice. All 2026 expiration dates.
The next monthly options expiration (OpEx) is Friday, November 20, 2026, and standard A.M.-settled index options in that cycle stop trading on Thursday, November 19, 2026. SquawkFlow read both dates from the published 2026 options expiration calendar (https://cdn.cboe.com/resources/options/Cboe2026OPTIONSCalendar.pdf) on 2026-09-01, rather than computing them from the third Friday rule, which is wrong for June 2026.
Standard equity, equity index, ETF and ETN options expire once a month. The table below is the 2026 schedule as the exchange publishes it, with the last day standard A.M.-settled index options trade in each cycle. Four of the twelve are quarterly sessions, when index futures and index options expire alongside single stock options.
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| Month | Expiration | Weekday | AM index options stop trading | Quarterly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | 2026-01-16 | Friday | 2026-01-15 | No |
| February 2026 | 2026-02-20 | Friday | 2026-02-19 | No |
| March 2026 | 2026-03-20 | Friday | 2026-03-19 | Yes |
| April 2026 | 2026-04-17 | Friday | 2026-04-16 | No |
| May 2026 | 2026-05-15 | Friday | 2026-05-14 | No |
| June 2026 | 2026-06-18 | Thursday | 2026-06-17 | Yes |
| July 2026 | 2026-07-17 | Friday | 2026-07-16 | No |
| August 2026 | 2026-08-21 | Friday | 2026-08-20 | No |
| September 2026 | 2026-09-18 | Friday | 2026-09-17 | Yes |
| October 2026 | 2026-10-16 | Friday | 2026-10-15 | No |
| November 2026 | 2026-11-20 | Friday | 2026-11-19 | No |
| December 2026 | 2026-12-18 | Friday | 2026-12-17 | Yes |
The one that breaks the pattern
- 2026-06-18: A Thursday, not a Friday. NYSE observes Juneteenth on Friday June 19, 2026, so the standard expiration moves to the preceding business day.
What expires and what does not
The dates above are the standard monthly expirations. SPX and XSP weeklys expire on most other business days as well, end-of-month contracts expire at the close on the last business day of each month, and VIX runs on its own schedule, which has a page of its own. What settles on the four quarterly sessions is covered in triple witching explained.
Whether today is an expiration, with max pain and the move options price into the next one: is today OPEX.
ALSO IN THE CALENDAR
A plain-text copy of this page is at /calendar/opex-calendar-2026.md. Dates checked against their exchange sources on 2026-09-01. Educational content, not financial advice.