Is Polymarket Legal in My Country? Kalshi and Polymarket, Place by Place

There is no worldwide answer. Whether you may trade on Kalshi or Polymarket depends on three separate things: the law where you are, what the exchange's own terms allow from there, and which of the three products you mean.

The venues' terms are the easiest part to read, and this directory records them for 302 places. Kalshi's member agreement lists 55 countries where trading its event contracts is restricted. Polymarket's documentation lists the countries where polymarket.com is blocked or allows only closing positions. Neither list is a statement of local law. A place a venue leaves off its list may still ban prediction markets, and India is the clearest case: neither of Polymarket's lists names it, yet the Indian government says polymarket.com is blocked there.

Where Vultax has looked at the law itself, the place has a guide, linked from its row. Guides are added in batches, and each says when its sources were last checked.

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Kalshi's list restricts trading event contracts, not having an account. The agreement says its restrictions "apply solely to the trading of Event Contracts and do not, in and of themselves, prohibit membership on, or non-trading access to, the Platform". Kalshi's own site could not be read on 30 October, so the directory uses the 1 October 2026 copy Kalshi publishes in its regulatory documents; that the two are identical was not confirmed.

Polymarket's developer documentation sorts places into three groups: blocked completely, close-only on the website and the API, and close-only on the website only. The directory's polymarket.com column follows it. Two documents disagree with each other, and the directory keeps the disagreement rather than resolving it:

• The help page counts differently - It is headed "40 countries are completely restricted" but lists 41, and it calls Ireland, Japan, Malta and the Netherlands completely restricted where the developer documentation makes them close-only on the website. It does not list South Korea, which the developer documentation makes close-only on the website.
• Close-only or blocked - The help page lists Singapore, Poland, Thailand and Taiwan both as completely restricted and as close-only, and calls four Canadian provinces restricted where the developer documentation makes them close-only.
• Germany - The developer documentation makes Germany close-only. The help page says existing positions there "must be held until market resolution".
• North Korea - The developer documentation lists it twice, as blocked and as close-only; the directory shows both.
• Recent change - Argentina is close-only now but was absent from an archived copy of 22 September 2026.

Every place, with what each venue's document says and how far Vultax's research has got. "Not listed" means the document does not name the place. It says nothing about local law, or about whether an account will be approved.

• United States, state by state - sources checked 30 October 2026
• California - sources checked 30 October 2026
• Texas - sources checked 30 October 2026
• Washington - sources checked 30 October 2026
• Canada - sources checked 30 October 2026
• United Kingdom - sources checked 30 October 2026
• India - sources checked 30 October 2026

Guides for more US states come next, starting with Michigan, Florida, Nevada, New York, Hawaii, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Wisconsin, Alabama and Arizona. After them come Germany and Australia, then the countries in the Europe record with dated authority actions, then the rest. Each guide is published only once its sources and photograph have been checked; until then the place appears here as a row and its address does not exist.

Venue documents change without notice. Kalshi last changed its list on 22 June 2026, when it added India, and Polymarket's documentation added Argentina between late September and late October. The columns show the documents as read on the date above the tables.

The venue columns come from Kalshi's member agreement (the 1 October 2026 version in Kalshi's public regulatory documents) and Polymarket's developer documentation, both read on 30 October 2026, with Polymarket's help page read the same day for the differences listed above. The research column links to a Vultax guide, the US table, or the Europe record where one covers the place.

Vultax did not test access from any of these places. A venue's list is its own policy and can be stricter or looser than local law. This page describes documents; it is not legal advice. Challenge a line at [email protected].