Euronext Holidays 2026 and 2027: Full Trading Calendar

Euronext is the group of European stock exchanges that runs the cash markets in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon, home to indices including the CAC 40, the AEX, the BEL 20 and the PSI. Regular trading runs from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm CET/CEST, which is 3:00 am to 11:30 am ET and 8:00 am to 4:30 pm London time in winter (4:00 am to 12:30 pm ET and 8:00 am to 4:30 pm London in summer, because Paris and London shift their clocks on the same date). The next change to that schedule is Thursday, December 24, 2026, when Euronext runs a half trading day and all instruments on the Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris cash markets close by 2:05 pm CET. The exchange is then shut all day on Friday, December 25, 2026 for Christmas Day. Euronext publishes the definitive calendar itself on its trading hours and holidays page.

Holiday closures matter more than they look. A closed European market thins out global liquidity, shifts the settlement date of anything you buy in the days beforehand, and changes when dividends and index rebalances actually land in your account. If you follow the data that drives European share prices, the calendars for the US CPI report and the US jobs report are useful companions to this page, because those releases often arrive while Europe is trading.

Euronext holidays 2026

These are the remaining closures and half days on the Euronext calendar for the rest of 2026. Boxing Day, December 26, 2026, falls on a Saturday, so it does not create an extra weekday closure.

Euronext holidays 2027

The 2027 calendar is unusually light, for a simple reason: Euronext does not move a public holiday to a weekday when it falls at the weekend. Labour Day, May 1, 2027, is a Saturday, and Christmas Day 2027 is a Saturday with Boxing Day on the Sunday, so none of those creates a trading closure. That leaves four full closures and two half days.

The Good Friday and Easter Monday closures on March 26 and March 29, 2027 create a four-day weekend across almost every major European venue, so European equity trading effectively stops from the close on Thursday, March 25, 2027 until Tuesday, March 30, 2027.

Early closes and half days

Euronext’s half trading days are not a single cut-off time but a staggered sequence, because different instruments have different closing auctions. On a half day on the Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris cash markets, Euronext states that all instruments close by 2:05 pm CET, with warrants and certificates closing at 1:55 pm CET and exchange traded funds at 2:00 pm CET. Derivatives contracts close at various times, starting from 1:55 pm CET. Equity instruments on Euronext Dublin close between 1:28 pm and 1:30 pm CET, which is 12:28 pm to 12:30 pm Dublin time.

Converted for other time zones, a 2:05 pm CET close in late December is 8:05 am ET and 1:05 pm in London. In practice that means European trading is finished before the New York opening bell, and the last hour of the shortened session is often extremely quiet.

• Half days are always the two year-end dates: December 24 and December 31, whenever they fall on a weekday.
• The exact minute is confirmed annually. Euronext publishes an end-of-year appendix to its trading manuals each autumn with the precise half-day timetable for every instrument class and market.
• Not every Euronext market matches. Oslo Børs and Euronext Milan, both part of the group, keep their own national holiday and half-day calendars, so a date closed in Paris may be open in Oslo or Milan and the reverse.

Trading hours on Euronext

The continuous trading session on the Euronext cash markets in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon runs from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm local time, followed by a closing auction and a brief trading-at-last phase, so the official closing prices used by index providers are struck just after 5:30 pm CET. Before the open, orders can be entered in a pre-opening call phase from early morning; there is no separate retail after-hours session of the kind US investors know from Nasdaq, although some brokers offer out-of-hours dealing on European shares through other venues.

The ET figures above apply during European winter time, when the gap to New York is six hours. Because the European Union and the United States change their clocks on different dates, there are short windows in late March and late October when the gap is five hours instead, so the Paris open lands at 4:00 am ET rather than 3:00 am ET. The London gap is a constant one hour all year.

How holidays affect settlement, dividends and options

Settlement is the process of actually exchanging cash for shares after a trade is agreed. European markets currently settle equities on a T+2 basis, meaning two business days after the trade date, and holidays are excluded from that count. Buy a French share on Wednesday, December 23, 2026 and settlement falls after the Christmas Day closure rather than two calendar days later. Euronext has confirmed that the EU, alongside the UK and Switzerland, moves to T+1 settlement on October 11, 2027, which will shorten the cycle to one business day and make holiday gaps proportionally more important for anyone who needs cash or stock in place by a deadline.

Three practical effects to plan around:

• Dividends and ex-dividend dates. To receive a dividend you must own the shares by the record date, and the ex-dividend date is set relative to the settlement cycle. A closure between your trade and the record date can leave you a day short. Check the issuer’s dividend timetable rather than assuming a fixed number of calendar days.
• Options and futures expiry. Euronext derivatives normally expire on the third Friday of the month. Good Friday falls on March 26, 2027, so contract timetables around Easter are adjusted; the derivatives markets also close at staggered times on half days, from 1:55 pm CET.
• Corporate actions and index changes. Rights issues, index rebalances and tender offer deadlines are all counted in business days. A four-day Easter weekend pushes those dates later than a calendar count suggests.

Other markets

European bond markets, which trade largely over the counter through dealers rather than on a single exchange, generally follow the TARGET2 payment system calendar. TARGET closes on New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May 1, Christmas Day and December 26, so euro-denominated bond and money market activity is effectively shut on the same core dates as the Euronext equity market, and desks are skeleton-staffed on the two year-end half days even where they are technically open.

Futures and foreign exchange are more continuous. The euro, the pound and the dollar keep trading through European holidays via banks in London, New York and Asia, although volumes on a Christmas Day or Good Friday are minimal and price moves can be exaggerated. Cryptocurrency markets never close, which is why bitcoin and ether sometimes make outsized moves during western holidays when there is no equity market to absorb the news flow.

On the shared Christian holidays the world’s main exchanges line up closely. Christmas Day and New Year’s Day are closed in New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Sydney. Good Friday and Easter Monday are where they diverge: the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq close on Good Friday but trade normally on Easter Monday, while Euronext, the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse and the Hong Kong exchange close on both. Tokyo and Shanghai ignore Easter altogether and instead close for their own national holidays, such as Japan’s Golden Week in early May and China’s Lunar New Year.

What It Means for Your Money

For most long-term investors a market holiday is an administrative detail, not a risk. Still, a few things change on and around these dates.

• Orders sit unfilled. An order placed with your broker on Christmas Day or Good Friday will not be executed until the next trading session, and it will be filled at whatever the price is then, not at the last price you saw. If you use market orders after a closure, the opening auction can print a very different level.
• Fund and pension valuations pause. European funds do not strike a net asset value on a closed day, so an ISA, SIPP or European pension pot can appear frozen for two or three days over Easter. That is a calendar effect, not a loss.
• Money transfers take longer. Euro payments do not clear on TARGET holidays. If you are moving money to a broker to meet a settlement deadline, or paying a mortgage or a bill in euros around December 25 or Easter, add the closed days to your timing.
• Thin liquidity costs you more. On half days and the sessions either side, the gap between buying and selling prices, the spread, widens on smaller shares. If you are dealing in a mid-cap French or Dutch stock, a normal full session usually gets you a better price than the last hour of December 24.
• Currency moves can be sharper. Because foreign exchange keeps trading while European equities are shut, the euro or the pound can move on news that shares only react to when they reopen. Holidaymakers and anyone paying in another currency should not expect tight rates on public holidays.
• Savings and mortgage rates are unaffected. Exchange holidays have nothing to do with central bank policy. Rates on deposits and loans change when the European Central Bank or the Bank of England decides, not when the bourse is shut.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Euronext open today?

Euronext’s Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon cash markets trade Monday to Friday from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm CET/CEST, except on the dates in the tables above. The next interruption is the half trading day on December 24, 2026, followed by a full closure on December 25, 2026.

What time does Euronext close on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?

On the half trading days of December 24 and December 31, all instruments on the Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris cash markets close by 2:05 pm CET, which is 8:05 am ET and 1:05 pm in London. Warrants and certificates close at 1:55 pm CET and ETFs at 2:00 pm CET.

Is the European bond market open on Euronext holidays?

Euro bond and money markets follow the TARGET2 payment calendar, which closes on New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, May 1, Christmas Day and December 26. Trading desks are typically open but very quiet on the two year-end half days.

How many holidays does Euronext have each year?

Euronext’s standard annual list is short, covering New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Labour Day on May 1, Christmas Day and December 26, plus two half days. Because closures are not moved when a holiday falls at the weekend, 2027 has only four full closures: January 1, March 26, March 29 and none in December.

Where is the official Euronext holiday calendar?

Euronext publishes the authoritative list, including the annual end-of-year appendix with exact half-day times for each instrument class, on its trading hours and holidays page. Oslo Børs and Euronext Milan have separate calendars.