If a given holiday happens to take place on Saturday, the Friday before it typically becomes a stock market holiday. Similarly, markets typically close on the following Monday if the holiday lands on a Sunday.
Here is the 2023 holiday schedule for the NYSE and Nasdaq:
- New Year’s Day: Monday, Jan. 2 (observed)
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Monday, Jan. 16
- Washington’s Birthday: Monday, Feb. 20
- Good Friday: Friday, April 7
- Memorial Day: Monday, May 29
- Juneteenth National Independence Day: Monday, June 19
- Independence Day: Tuesday, July 4
- Labor Day: Monday, Sept. 4
- Thanksgiving: Thursday, Nov. 23
- Christmas: Monday, Dec. 25