Latest close
23,140.50
+0.34% on 2026-09-25
NIFTY 50 Per-Day Change
Every session's close-to-close move, as a percentage. Pick a window and which price field to measure, and read it against the 20-day moving average to see whether recent days are running hot or cold versus the recent baseline.
2006-01-02 → 2026-09-25 · 5,140 trading sessions · daily candles only
Best day on record
+17.74%
2009-05-18
Worst day on record
-12.98%
2020-03-23
Mean daily move
+0.05%
σ 1.31% · median +0.07%
Daily change explorer
Bars are green on an up close and red on a down close. The dashed line is the trailing 20-session mean of the change itself.
The full record, in context
Computed across all 5,140 close-to-close sessions in the file. These figures do not change with the window selector.
- Up sessions
- 2,754
- Down sessions
- 2,381
- Flat sessions
- 4
- Moves ≥ 1%
- 1,520
A 1.31% standard deviation means a typical session lands well inside ±1%, but 1,520 sessions (29.6% of all sessions) break ±1% — the tails are what the explorer is for.
Data integrity & sources
Source: DhanHQ API v2 — POST /charts/historical (daily) — instrumentNIFTY(security id 13) on exchange segmentIDX_I,1D candles. Retrieved 2026-09-27.DhanHQ docs
Coverage note
Dhan's NIFTY 50 daily series begins 2006-01-02, not the 1995-11-14 index inception — every range before it returns no data, so this is the full history Dhan holds.