Are Liquor Stores Open on Christmas 2026? Closed in 11 States

Liquor stores are closed on Christmas Day, Friday, Dec. 25, 2026, in 11 states: Pennsylvania, Texas, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Idaho, North Carolina, Delaware and Mississippi, according to each state’s statute or liquor authority. Three of them also close on New Year’s Day, Friday, Jan. 1, 2027: Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) lists all stores closed on both days, and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) lists Christmas Day and New Year’s Day among its package-store closures. The dates come from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which lists Christmas Day on Friday, Dec. 25, and New Year’s Day on Friday, Jan. 1, 2027 (When is Christmas?). The table covers stores only; for chains see Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2026 store hours.

Which states close liquor stores on Christmas Day 2026?

Each state name links to the official page the row’s fact comes from. A state may close its own stores, its package stores or every off-premises seller, so the third column names who is covered.

State	Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2026	Rule and who it covers	New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2027
Pennsylvania	Closed	PLCB notice: “All stores will be closed”	Closed
Texas	Closed	TABC: package stores	Closed
Connecticut	Closed	Department of Consumer Protection (DCP), December 2025 alert: package stores must remain closed	Closed
Minnesota	Closed	Statute 340A.504: no off-sale on Christmas Day	Not named
New Hampshire	Closed	Revised Statutes Annotated (RSA) 177:5: no state liquor store may be open	Not named
Massachusetts	Closed	General Laws chapter 138, section 33: licensees under section 15 (package stores) may not sell or deliver	Not named
Rhode Island	Closed	Section 3-8-1: licenses under Title 3 do not authorize sales on Christmas day	Not named for stores
Idaho	Closed	Idaho Code 23-307: sales prohibited on any Christmas	Not named
North Carolina	Closed	General Statutes (G.S.) 18B-802: no Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) store may be open	Not named
Delaware	Closed	Title 4, chapter 7: no off-premises licensee may sell or deliver	Not named
Mississippi	Closed	Department of Revenue: package stores may not open on Christmas Day	No statewide rule

“Not named” means the source we read has no New Year’s Day wording; stores there may still keep shorter hours. Texas also closes package stores on Sundays, and its answers page adds that a Christmas Day or New Year’s Day that falls on a Sunday moves the closure to Monday, which does not apply in 2026 because both days are Fridays. North Carolina’s rule names every Sunday as well as Christmas Day.

What are liquor store hours on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve?

Christmas Eve is Thursday, Dec. 24, 2026, and New Year’s Eve is Thursday, Dec. 31. These are the rules we found.

State	Christmas Eve, Dec. 24	New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31
Pennsylvania	Stores open at their normally scheduled start time and close by 6 p.m.	Stores open at their normally scheduled start time and close by 8 p.m.
Minnesota	No off-sale after 8 p.m.	Monday-to-Saturday off-sale hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. apply
Michigan	No retail sale from 11:59 p.m.	No holiday rule in the section we read

The Pennsylvania page points to the store locator on the Fine Wine & Good Spirits website for each store’s own hours. Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) 436.2113 bars retail sales between 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 24 and 12 noon on Dec. 25, so a Michigan store can sell on Christmas Eve until 11:59 p.m. and on Christmas Day from noon. The Texas, Connecticut and other sources state no Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve rule.

Which states close liquor stores on New Year’s Day 2027?

Three: Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut. Pennsylvania’s board lists Friday, Jan. 1, 2027, as a day “All stores will be closed.” The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission names New Year’s Day in the same sentence as Christmas Day. Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection said in its Dec. 23, 2025 alert that package stores must remain closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day; we cite that notice, not a statute. In Mississippi the state page sets no statewide New Year’s rule, though its city list notes a local rule in Cleveland. Pin the date on the December 2026 printable calendar.

Which states could not be confirmed for Christmas?

These stay out of the table. Virginia’s alcohol authority site blocked automated access on Nov. 14, 2026, so no Virginia hours are given. New York’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Law section 105 has no Christmas or New Year’s rule in the section we read, so stores set their own hours. We did not check Utah, Ohio, Alabama, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, Montana, West Virginia or Washington for 2026. Check your state liquor authority or the store before you go.

Print the Christmas liquor store sheet

The free one-page printable lists the 11 closed states with the rule for each, a countdown to Dec. 25 and the states not confirmed. The same question for Thanksgiving, with Pennsylvania’s other dates, is in liquor stores open on Thanksgiving 2026, and the holiday-week calendar for chains and groceries is in what is open on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day 2027.