November 2026 Stock Market Calendar: Every Date and Time (ET), and What the S&P 500 Did in Every November Since 2016

November 2026 has seven scheduled events that can move the whole market: the midterm elections on Tuesday, November 3; the October jobs report on Friday, November 6; October CPI on Tuesday, November 10; Nvidia's results after the close on Tuesday, November 17; the minutes of the Fed's October meeting on Wednesday, November 18; the second estimate of third-quarter GDP together with October PCE inflation on Wednesday, November 25; and a holiday-shortened week that ends with a 1:00 PM close on Friday, November 27. Every date below was checked against the agency or company that publishes it, with the source linked.

The month also changes the trading day itself twice. Clocks fall back on Sunday, November 1, which restores the five-hour gap between New York and London after a week in which Europe had already changed and the US had not. And on November 26 the market is closed for Thanksgiving. Below the calendar is something the official schedules do not give you: what the S&P 500 actually did in each of the last ten Novembers, computed from daily SPY bars, including every midterm and presidential election day in that span.

The November 2026 calendar, date by date

Sunday, November 1: daylight saving time ends in the United States. Regular hours stay 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern; what changes is your local clock and the overlap with Europe, which moved its clocks a week earlier on October 25. From Monday the New York open is 2:30 PM in London again. Our scanners run on Eastern time, so nothing shifts on our side: the first intraday pass stays at 9:45 AM ET and the last at 3:45 PM ET.

Monday, November 2, 10:00 AM ET: October ISM Manufacturing PMI, on the ISM release calendar. After the close, Apple reports its September quarter; our Apple earnings post has what the stock did the day after every report since 2009 and why the October report is the odd one out.

Tuesday, November 3: midterm election day. The polls close in the evening, so the market's first full reaction is Wednesday. Our midterm post covers all 19 midterm years since 1950; the table further down this page has the election-day and day-after moves for 2016 through 2024. Also at 10:00 AM: September job openings (JOLTS), per the BLS November schedule.

Wednesday, November 4, 8:30 AM ET: September trade balance from the BEA, a GDP input rather than a market mover on its own. At 10:00 AM, October ISM Services PMI, the report whose Prices and Employment lines move rates more than its headline.

Thursday, November 5, 8:30 AM ET: third-quarter productivity and unit labor costs (BLS), the wage-cost number the Fed cites when it talks about inflation persistence.

Friday, November 6, 8:30 AM ET: the October jobs report. Payrolls, the unemployment rate and average hourly earnings, with the bond market reacting before the stock market opens. Our jobs report post has what the S&P 500 did on all 126 report days since 2016. At 10:00 AM the University of Michigan's preliminary November sentiment reading follows, per the Surveys of Consumers.

Tuesday, November 10, 8:30 AM ET: October CPI, the last inflation print before the Fed's December 8-9 meeting. Our CPI post covers every CPI release day since 2008. Real earnings for October come out at the same time.

Wednesday, November 11: Veterans Day. Stocks trade a full session; the bond market is closed, so Treasury yields do not move while equities do. Here is what the S&P 500 did on every Veterans Day since 1993.

Friday, November 13, 8:30 AM ET: October producer prices (PPI). The pipeline-inflation number that sometimes revises the market's read of Tuesday's CPI.

Tuesday, November 17: October import and export prices at 8:30 AM (BLS). After the close, Nvidia reports its third quarter of fiscal 2027, the quarter ended October 25, with the call at 2:00 PM Pacific, 5:00 PM Eastern, per Nvidia's October 28 notice. It is the largest single stock in the index, so its guidance moves the whole tape on Wednesday morning. Third-party calendars also place Home Depot on the 17th and Walmart on Thursday the 19th, but neither company had announced its date when this was written; check their investor pages the week before.

Wednesday, November 18, 2:00 PM ET: minutes of the October 27-28 FOMC meeting, listed on the Federal Reserve's November calendar. The minutes show how many participants wanted what the statement did not say.

Friday, November 20: monthly options expiration, the third Friday. What the S&P 500 does on expiration Fridays is smaller than the folklore suggests; the November numbers for the last ten years are in the table below.

Wednesday, November 25, 8:30 AM ET: two BEA releases at once: the second estimate of third-quarter GDP with corporate profits, and October personal income and outlays, which carries the PCE inflation index the Fed targets. It lands the day before the holiday, on a session that has historically been one of the lighter ones of the year.

Thursday, November 26: closed for Thanksgiving. Friday, November 27: stocks close at 1:00 PM ET and eligible options at 1:15 PM, per the NYSE holiday and early-closing calendar. Our Thanksgiving week post has the half-day volume and range for every year since 2016.

Saturday, November 28: the Fed's blackout period begins ahead of the December 8-9 meeting, which comes with a new Summary of Economic Projections. From this date no Fed official speaks publicly on policy until the Thursday after the meeting. How stocks have behaved inside blackout windows is its own post.

The October calendar still holds the dates that spill into November, including the last of the big third-quarter reports; the Q3 earnings season guide lists them by week.

What the S&P 500 did in every November since 2016

The official calendars tell you when; they do not tell you what the market has done with these weeks. We pulled daily SPY bars (dividend-adjusted, SIP feed) from 2016 through October 30, 2026 and measured each November against the last close of October. Ten Novembers is a small sample, so read it as a record, not a forecast.

• 2016: +3.7%, worst dip inside the month 1.9%, 12 of 21 days up. Election day November 8 +0.4%, the day after +1.1%.
• 2017: +3.0%, worst dip 1.0%, 12 of 21 days up.
• 2018: +1.8%, worst dip 6.3% (the month's low came on the 23rd), 11 of 21 days up. Midterm election day November 6 +0.6%, the day after +2.1%.
• 2019: +3.6%, worst dip 0.5%, 14 of 20 days up.
• 2020: +10.9%, worst dip 2.0%, 12 of 20 days up. Election day November 3 +1.7%, the day after +2.3%, then the vaccine rally.
• 2021: -0.8%, worst dip 3.0%, 14 of 21 days up. The whole loss was the Black Friday half day, -2.2% on the Omicron headlines.
• 2022: +5.6%, worst dip 3.9%, 10 of 21 days up. Midterm election day November 8 +0.5%, the day after -2.1%, then +5.5% on the November 10 CPI, the biggest single day in this table.
• 2023: +9.1%, worst dip 0.8%, 16 of 21 days up.
• 2024: +6.0%, worst dip 2.2%, 15 of 20 days up. Election day November 5 +1.2%, the day after +2.5%.
• 2025: +0.2%, worst dip 4.5%, 12 of 19 days up.

Across the ten: up in nine, median gain 3.7%, median worst dip inside the month 2.1%. For scale, all 129 calendar months from February 2016 through October 2026 were up 70% of the time with a median gain of 1.8% and a median intramonth dip of 2.6%. November has been both stronger and smoother than the average month in this stretch, which is consistent with the longer record in our month-by-month seasonality study, and still says nothing about this November.

Three day-level readings from the same bars:

• Election days: all five (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024) closed up, between +0.4% and +1.7%. The day after was up in four of five, by 1% to 2.5%; the exception was 2022, down 2.1% when the result stayed undecided overnight.
• November options-expiration Fridays: up in five of ten, with the moves between -1.3% (2024) and +1.0% (2025). The median absolute move, 0.4%, matches an ordinary November day.
• The first Monday after the clocks change: up in nine of ten, from +0.1% to +2.2%. A pleasant streak with no mechanism behind it; it is in the table because readers ask, not because we trade it.

Three dates that change the trading day, not the data

Most calendar pages stop at the releases. Three November dates change how the session itself works, and they are the ones that catch automated setups.

The clock change on November 1. Any schedule written in UTC on a server is an hour off from Monday, and so is anything that assumed the London overlap of the past week. Ours is written in Eastern time with a market-hours check on every scan, so the first intraday pass stays at 9:45 AM ET and the last at 3:45 PM ET all winter. If you run your own scripts, check the first Monday's log, because an hour-early scan sees pre-market quotes and an hour-late one misses the open.

Veterans Day on November 11. Stocks open, bonds closed. Rate-sensitive stocks trade a full day without the usual yield signal, and Treasury-based stop logic has no new data to react to. Volume runs light.

The 1:00 PM close on November 27. Three hours vanish from the session. A stop or target that usually gets a full afternoon to work has until 1:00 PM, and any order that reaches the exchange after that waits for Monday. Position sizes set for a normal day are large for a session with roughly 40% of normal volume, which is the figure in our Thanksgiving week study. It is the one day of the month where we suggest looking at the daily spend limit before the open rather than after.

How we size around a month like this, and what we do not do

We do not forecast the jobs number, the CPI print or the election. What we do is mechanical and visible in the settings: a daily spend limit caps how much new money goes to work on any one day, including the 6th, the 10th and the 18th; a trailing stop or a fixed stop on every position decides the exit before the release, not after; and buy approvals, if you turn them on, mean nothing fires on a release morning without your tap. The settings glossary explains each one. If you want to see the mechanics on a sample account before connecting a broker, start with the demo; it runs the same rules on house money.

The one November-specific adjustment is yours to make, not the software's: on the 27th, with three hours gone from the session, look at the daily spend limit and the open stops before the bell. Nothing else about the month gets special treatment. The point of a calendar is to know which mornings to leave the rules alone, and you can set those rules up in a few minutes.

Quick answers

Is the stock market open on Veterans Day 2026?

Yes. November 11 is a full session for stocks on the NYSE and Nasdaq. The bond market is closed on SIFMA's recommendation, so there is no Treasury trading that day.

What time does the stock market close the day after Thanksgiving 2026?

1:00 PM Eastern on Friday, November 27, with eligible options closing at 1:15 PM. Thursday, November 26 is a full closure.

When is the Fed blackout period before the December 2026 meeting?

It begins Saturday, November 28, the second Saturday before the December 8-9 meeting, and runs through Thursday, December 10. No scheduled Fed speeches on policy fall inside it.

Does the November 1 clock change affect stock market hours?

Not in any US time zone: the whole country changes together, so 9:30 AM Eastern is 6:30 AM Pacific before and after. What changes is the overlap with markets that moved a week earlier. From October 26 to 30 the New York open was 1:30 PM in London; from November 2 it is 2:30 PM again.