Which session is open right now, when the next one opens, and where they overlap. Shown in your time zone, correct through every daylight-saving change.
Session bars in your chosen time zone. The line is now.
Each session runs on the business hours of its own city. The UTC columns show what those hours are when that city is on standard time and on daylight saving time.
| Session | Local hours | Zone | UTC, standard time | UTC, daylight time | Daylight saving |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SydneyAustralia/Sydney | 07:00 – 16:00 | AEST (UTC+10) / AEDT (UTC+11) | 21:00 – 06:00 | 20:00 – 05:00 | First Sunday of October to first Sunday of April |
| TokyoAsia/Tokyo | 09:00 – 18:00 | JST (UTC+9), no daylight saving | 00:00 – 09:00 | 00:00 – 09:00 | None |
| LondonEurope/London | 08:00 – 17:00 | GMT (UTC+0) / BST (UTC+1) | 08:00 – 17:00 | 07:00 – 16:00 | Last Sunday of March to last Sunday of October |
| New YorkAmerica/New_York | 08:00 – 17:00 | EST (UTC−5) / EDT (UTC−4) | 13:00 – 22:00 | 12:00 – 21:00 | Second Sunday of March to first Sunday of November |
The trading week opens at 17:00 Sunday and closes at 17:00 Friday, New York time. Between those two points at least one session is open at every hour, which is why forex is described as a 24-hour market.
The clock reads the current time in each of the four cities using your device's time zone database, then checks whether that city's local time falls inside its trading hours on a weekday. Nothing is fetched from a server and nothing is stored, so the page works offline once it has loaded.
The countdown under each city is the time until that session's next change: until it closes if it is open, until it opens if it is closed. Over a weekend the countdown runs to Monday's open, or to Sunday's Sydney open for the first session of the week.
Three of the four centres move their clocks twice a year, on different dates. Tokyo never does. That is why a table of fixed UTC times is wrong for several weeks every spring and autumn, and why this page computes everything from each city's own clock instead.
The practical effect: for about two weeks in March and one week in autumn, London and New York are four hours apart instead of five, and the London–New York overlap becomes four hours long instead of three, or shifts by an hour on your clock.
Retail forex trading starts at 17:00 on Sunday, New York time, when the Sydney session begins, and stops at 17:00 on Friday, New York time, when New York closes. In UTC that is 22:00 Sunday to 22:00 Friday in winter, and 21:00 to 21:00 while New York is on daylight saving time. Between Friday close and Sunday open most brokers do not accept orders.
London is generally the most active single session, and the hours when London and New York are both open, roughly 13:00 to 17:00 London time, usually carry the highest volume of the day for the major pairs. The Sydney session, with only Australasian markets open, is usually the quietest.
Sydney, London and New York all observe daylight saving time, and they switch on different dates. Tokyo does not. So the gap between London and New York, and between Sydney and Tokyo, changes by an hour a few times a year. This clock reads each city's own clock, so it is right on every day of the year without you adjusting anything.
London opens at 08:00 local time. In winter that is 14:00 in Dhaka (UTC+6 against London's UTC+0). From late March to late October London is on BST (UTC+1), so the open is 13:00 Dhaka time. Pick Dhaka in the time zone selector above and the clock shows this for every session.
No. Currency trading through retail brokers pauses from Friday 17:00 New York time until Sunday 17:00 New York time. Cryptocurrency markets trade through the weekend, but this page covers forex sessions only.
The session hours here are the conventional business hours of each financial centre. Your broker may quote prices slightly outside them and may use a different server time zone. Check the broker's own trading hours for the exact minute a symbol becomes tradable.