What are NEPSE trading hours?

NEPSE trades Monday to Friday. Pre-open runs 10:30 to 11:00 AM NPT and continuous trading runs 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM NPT. The exchange is closed on Saturday and Sunday and on Nepali public holidays.

When does NEPSE open and close each day?

Continuous trading — when real-time order matching happens — opens at 11:00 AM NPT and closes at 3:00 PM NPT, Monday through Friday.

Is NEPSE open on Sundays?

No. As of April 2026, NEPSE moved to a Monday–Friday trading week. Saturday and Sunday are now the weekend. (Historically NEPSE traded Sunday–Thursday — the schedule changed in April 2026.)

What is the NEPSE Pre-Open session?

Pre-Open runs 10:30 to 11:00 NPT. Members can place, modify and cancel orders, but no orders actually execute. At 11:00 NPT the system runs a single call auction to determine the opening price for each security, and then continuous trading begins.

Did NEPSE change its trading days?

Yes. NEPSE shifted to a Monday–Friday trading week effective April 2026. The schedule was previously Sunday–Thursday (and briefly Sunday–Friday during the transition). Any guide that still says "Sunday to Thursday" is out of date.

All articles

NEPSE basics

NEPSE trading hours and session timings.

NEPSE trades Monday to Friday, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Nepal Standard Time. Here's the full schedule — Pre-Open and Continuous trading — and the holiday list.

4 min read · Updated · 11 May 2026

The short answer

NEPSE trading hours: Monday to Friday, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Nepal Standard Time (NPT, UTC+5:45). The exchange is closed on Saturday, Sunday and Nepali public holidays.

The schedule changed in April 2026

NEPSE used to trade Sunday to Thursday. In April 2026 the exchange shifted to a Monday–Friday trading week to align with most global markets and to give Nepali investors a clean Saturday–Sunday weekend. Any older guide that still lists "Sunday to Thursday" is out of date — that schedule no longer applies.

The two sessions of the NEPSE trading day

Pre-Open · 10:30 – 11:00 NPT

Members place, modify and cancel orders, but no orders execute. At exactly 11:00 NPT the system runs a single call auction to fix an opening price for each security based on the queued orders. Pre-Open is useful if you want your buy order to participate in the opening price-discovery rather than chase the first real-time tick.

Continuous trading · 11:00 – 15:00 NPT

The main session. Order matching happens in real time on a price-time priority basis. This is the four-hour window during which the NEPSE index, sector indices, top gainers and turnover all update tick by tick.

NEPSE holiday list

On top of every Saturday and Sunday, NEPSE closes for the following Nepali public holidays (representative — exact dates shift year to year on the Bikram Sambat calendar):

New Year (Baishakh 1)
Loktantra Diwas
Buddha Jayanti
Tihar — multiple days including Laxmi Puja and Bhai Tika
Dashain — multiple days including Phulpati, Maha Ashtami, Maha Nawami, Vijaya Dashami, Ekadashi
Chhath Puja
Republic Day
Constitution Day
Indra Jatra (Kathmandu Valley only)
Maha Shivaratri
Holi

NEPSE publishes the official annual calendar on its website each year. Punji's home tab shows the live market status pill — Pre-Open, Continuous, or Closed — so you never have to guess what session you're in.

What about live prices outside market hours?

Outside NEPSE hours, the live feed snapshot is the last close. There is no after-hours trading on NEPSE. Sector indices, top movers and the floorsheet all freeze on the day's final values until Pre-Open the next trading day. Punji explicitly stops polling outside market hours so your phone battery isn't drained checking a static feed.

How Punji handles trading hours

Punji's market clock reads the live session state from our servers and surfaces it as a status pill on the home tab. Polling for live data is gated to market hours only. Tap the pill to see a session-by-session breakdown for the day and the upcoming open / close times. See market data features for the full story, or read what NEPSE is first if you're new to the exchange.