Are Liquor Stores Open on Thanksgiving 2026? Closed in 9 States

Liquor stores are closed on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2026, in nine states: Pennsylvania, Texas, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Idaho, North Carolina and Delaware, according to each state’s statute or liquor authority. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) says all Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores are closed that day, and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) lists Thanksgiving Day among its package-store closures. New York and Michigan law names no Thanksgiving closure. The date comes from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which lists “Thanksgiving Day” on Thursday, November 26 (When is Thanksgiving?). The table covers stores only; for grocery chains see what is open on Thanksgiving 2026.

Which states close liquor stores on Thanksgiving 2026?

Each state name links to the page the row’s fact comes from. The rule column says who is covered, because a state may close its own stores, package stores or every off-premises seller.

State	Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, 2026	Rule and who it covers	Other holidays in the same rule
Pennsylvania	Closed	PLCB notice: “All stores will be closed”	Christmas Day, Dec. 25, closed; Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve close early
Texas	Closed	TABC: liquor stores, also called package stores	Sunday, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day
Minnesota	Closed	Statute 340A.504: no sale of intoxicating liquor by an off-sale licensee on Thanksgiving Day	Christmas Day; after 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve
New Hampshire	Closed	Revised Statutes Annotated (RSA) 177:5: no state liquor store may be open on Thanksgiving day	Easter
Massachusetts	Closed	General Laws chapter 138, section 33: licensees under section 15 (package stores) may not sell or deliver	Christmas day; the last Monday in May before noon
Rhode Island	Closed	Section 3-8-1: retail Class A licensees are not authorized to be open for sales	Same section also limits Sunday sales, with exceptions
Idaho	Closed	Idaho Code 23-307: no sale from a state liquor store or distributing station	Christmas, Memorial Day, and Sundays except as county option allows
North Carolina	Closed	General Statutes (G.S.) 18B-802(b): no Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) store may be open	Christmas Day and every Sunday
Delaware	Closed	Title 4, section 709(b): no off-premises licensee may sell or deliver	Easter and Christmas

North Carolina’s rule names Sundays as well as Thanksgiving Day, but Nov. 26, 2026 is a Thursday, so the holiday wording is what closes the stores. Massachusetts’ “before 12:00 noon” limit applies to the last Monday in May, not to Thanksgiving. Idaho’s statute and Delaware’s section 709 are the wording on the state pages as read Nov. 14, 2026; Delaware’s page carries two versions of section 709, and both name Thanksgiving.

What are Pennsylvania’s liquor store hours around the holidays?

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board lists these dates on its holiday hours page for 2026. The same page lists Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2027, as a day all stores are closed.

Date	Fine Wine & Good Spirits stores
Thursday, Nov. 26, 2026 (Thanksgiving Day)	All stores closed
Thursday, Dec. 24, 2026 (Christmas Eve)	Open at the normally scheduled start time, close by 6 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 25, 2026 (Christmas Day)	All stores closed
Thursday, Dec. 31, 2026 (New Year’s Eve)	Open at the normally scheduled start time, close by 8 p.m.

The page points to the store locator on the Fine Wine & Good Spirits website for each store’s own hours.

Which states have no statewide Thanksgiving closure?

State law names no Thanksgiving closure in these three, so stores set their own hours, and some towns may limit sales.

• New York: Alcoholic Beverage Control Law section 105 (revision of Oct. 30, 2026) has no holiday wording.
• Michigan: Michigan Compiled Laws (MCL) 436.2113 bans sales from 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 24 to noon on Dec. 25 and lets a city, village or township ban sales on a legal holiday by ordinance. Thanksgiving is not named.
• Mississippi: the state Department of Revenue page, updated Dec. 30, 2024, says package stores are not allowed Sunday sales and may not open on Christmas Day. It sets no statewide Thanksgiving rule, but its city list notes that package stores in Cleveland are closed on New Year’s Day and Thanksgiving Day.

Which states could not be confirmed?

These stay out of the table because no official 2026 source could be read on Nov. 14, 2026: Virginia, Connecticut, Oklahoma, Utah, Alabama, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, Vermont, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, Washington and West Virginia. Check your state liquor authority or the store before you go.

Print the Thanksgiving liquor store sheet

The free one-page printable lists the nine states with the rule for each, a countdown to Nov. 26 and the states not confirmed. Pin the day on the November 2026 printable calendar; the same holiday question for state offices is in states that close on Friday, Nov. 27, and restaurants are in restaurants open on Thanksgiving 2026.