{"id":25651,"date":"2026-03-20T10:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=25651"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:09:29","slug":"what-are-the-trading-hours-for-us-stocks-in-india-ist","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/article\/what-are-the-trading-hours-for-us-stocks-in-india-ist\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the trading hours for US stocks in India (IST)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US stock market timings in India (IST) change twice a year because the US observes <strong>Daylight Saving Time (DST)<\/strong>. During the summer, clocks in the US shift forward by one hour, which makes the market open earlier for Indian investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following table details the trading sessions in Indian Standard Time (IST):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Session<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Summer (March \u2013 November)<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Winter (November \u2013 March)<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Pre-Market<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1:30 PM \u2013 7:00 PM<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2:30 PM \u2013 8:00 PM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>Regular Market<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">7:00 PM \u2013 1:30 AM<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">8:00 PM \u2013 2:30 AM<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong>After-Hours<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">1:30 AM \u2013 5:30 AM<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">2:30 AM \u2013 6:30 AM<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Points to Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Trading Days:<\/strong> US markets are open <strong>Monday to Friday<\/strong>.<\/li><li><strong>Market Holidays:<\/strong> The markets are closed on weekends and US public holidays, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Independence Day.<\/li><li><strong>Order Execution:<\/strong> While you can place orders during the day when the US market is closed, they will be queued and only execute once the regular market opens in the evening.<\/li><li><strong>Same-Day Trading:<\/strong> Because of these timings, you can trade on the Indian markets (NSE\/BSE) during the morning and the US markets at night, all in a single day.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht_kb_category":[2831],"ht_kb_tag":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25661,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/25651\/revisions\/25661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=25651"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samco.in\/help-support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=25651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}