Seasonals
Every year's % path overlaid Jan–Dec — see whether this year is tracking or breaking the pattern, for indices, India VIX and every NSE F&O stock.
What this page shows
A seasonality chart: every year drawn as its own line, all starting at 0% on 1 January, laid over one Jan-to-December axis. That makes the comparison visual — you can see at a glance whether this year is tracking, beating or lagging the same months of past years. It works for NIFTY, SENSEX, BANKNIFTY and the other tracked indices, for India VIX, and for every NSE F&O stock, with up to ten years of history on one chart.
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Seasonals, section by section, in a 2-minute video, also in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
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How to read it
- Year lines — each line is one calendar year, restarted at 0% on 1 January of that year. A line sitting at +12% in July means that year was up 12% by July. The bold line is the current year.
- The dot — the end of the bold line is where the current year stands right now. During market hours it moves with the day; the day's final value locks in after the close.
- Month tiles — under the chart, each month's tile shows the average move for that month across every past year the page has — up to ten, whichever window the chart shows — and how often it ended higher, for example "avg −0.8%, up 3 of 10 years". This year's month in progress is not counted until it finishes; its tile is outlined so you can find it.
- Picking symbols — switch between the index list (plus India VIX) and any NSE F&O stock via search, and widen the window from 3 to 10 years. Younger indices simply show the years that exist.
- A tendency, not a promise — seasonality shows how months usually behaved, not how they must behave. A month that fell in 7 of the last 10 years can still rise this year — use the tiles as context, never as a signal on their own.
Frequently asked questions
A chart that overlays several years of the same instrument, each year restarted at 0% on 1 January, on one January-to-December axis. Instead of one long price history, you see the shape of each year — which makes recurring patterns, strong months and weak months easy to spot.
Every day's value is the percentage change from the previous year's closing level. So a reading of +5% on 10 March means the instrument was up 5% since the start of that year. All years use the same rule, which is what makes the lines comparable.
The six tracked indices — NIFTY 50, BANK NIFTY, FIN NIFTY, MIDCAP NIFTY, SENSEX and BANKEX — plus India VIX, and every stock in the NSE F&O list (about 190 names) through the search box.
Up to ten years per symbol, selectable as 3, 5 or 10-year windows. Younger indices show fewer lines — MIDCAP NIFTY's history starts in 2022, so its chart begins with 2023, the first year with a full previous-year close to measure from.
No. It describes tendencies — how a month behaved on average and how often it closed higher. Those tendencies can and do break. Treat the chart as context for your own analysis, not as a buy or sell signal.
The current year carries a live point — the dot at the end of the bold line — so you always see where the year stands right now. Past sessions use official closing values, including the closing-auction print that has set the official index close since August 2026.