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Forex Market Hours
The forex market runs 24 hours a day, five days a week, across four overlapping global sessions. See which ones are open right now, computed live from your device’s clock.
Live session clock
Which sessions are open right now
Updates automatically from your device’s clock — no data is sent anywhere. Each session is judged in its own local time and zone, so daylight saving is handled for you.
Live — refreshes automatically every minute.
Opening hours
When is the forex market open?
The forex market is open 24 hours a day from Sunday evening to Friday evening, because trading moves from one financial centre to the next. It is closed at the weekend, from Friday 17:00 to Sunday 17:00 New York time. In UTC that is 21:00 or 22:00, depending on whether New York is on daylight saving time. Hours for individual instruments vary, so check your platform.
- ✓ Sydney opens the week, then Tokyo, London and New York follow in turn.
- ✓ There is no central exchange, so activity rolls across time zones rather than stopping.
- ✓ Metals, indices, energies, shares and crypto CFDs can have different trading hours from forex pairs.
- ✓ “Open” in the live clock above means that session’s typical hours are active now, based on your device’s clock.
- ✓ Check your platform’s market watch for the exact hours of each instrument.
- ✓ Combine this page with the economic calendar to see when news is due.
Session schedule
What are the forex trading sessions?
There are four main sessions: Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. Sessions are listed in their own local time. The last two columns show the same hours in your time zone (your local time) when JavaScript is on.
| Session | Local hours | Your open | Your close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sydney | 07:00–16:00 Sydney time | — | — |
| Tokyo | 09:00–18:00 Tokyo time | — | — |
| London | 08:00–17:00 London time | — | — |
| New York | 08:00–17:00 New York time | — | — |
Session hours are typical conventions and approximate. They are not the trading hours of any particular account. Times are listed in each city’s local time. Daylight saving shifts the equivalent UTC times through the year, so they are not fixed.
Session overlaps
Which session overlaps matter most?
The London–New York overlap, the four hours from 13:00 to 17:00 UTC in northern winter (12:00 to 16:00 UTC in summer), is usually the busiest part of the day, with the most trading activity on major pairs. The Tokyo–London overlap is short, an hour or less, and often brings a pickup in volume.
- ✓ London–New York: 08:00–17:00 London time and 08:00–17:00 New York time overlap for about four hours (five in the weeks when the US has changed its clocks and the UK has not). EUR/USD, GBP/USD and USD/CAD are often most active here.
- ✓ Tokyo–London: a short window as Asia hands over to Europe. Its length changes with daylight saving.
- ✓ Sydney–Tokyo: the early Asian hours. Yen, Australian dollar and New Zealand dollar pairs tend to be the focus.
- ✓ Quiet hours between sessions can mean thinner liquidity.
Risk note. Busy periods can also bring fast price moves and slippage. CFDs are leveraged and losses can exceed your deposit. Read the Risk Disclosure.
Daylight saving
How does daylight saving change session times?
Session times shift because countries change their clocks on different dates. The US moves on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November. The UK and Europe move on the last Sunday of March and October. For a few weeks the overlaps move by an hour.
Why it matters. In late March, and again from late October to early November, the US and the UK/EU are on different clock settings. The London–New York overlap then falls an hour earlier or later in UTC. Australia changes on its own dates, in April and October. The table above lists local times, and the live clock and your open/close columns recalculate for each date, so they follow these changes.
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