What time do the forex sessions open and close in Singapore time?

On a Singapore clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 05:00 to 14:00; Tokyo 08:00 to 17:00; London 16:00 to 01:00 the next day; New York 21:00 to 06:00 the next day. In mid-July: Sydney 06:00 to 15:00; Tokyo 08:00 to 17:00; London 15:00 to 00:00 the next day; New York 20:00 to 05:00 the next day. The windows are a convention, each the business day of its own city, and not an official timetable. Public holidays are not taken into account.

When do the London and New York sessions overlap in Singapore time?

On a Singapore clock the London and New York windows are both open from 21:00 to 01:00 the next day in mid-January and from 20:00 to 00:00 the next day in mid-July. For a few weeks around the clock changes in March and in late October the hours differ by one hour, because Britain and the United States do not change on the same day.

Is the “Asian session” one market?

No. It is a name for the hours when the financial centres of Asia and Australasia are at work. Foreign exchange has no single exchange: banks and dealers quote prices to each other, and the Sydney and Tokyo windows are conventions for when those centres are busiest. Each stock exchange in the region is a separate venue with its own hours and its own holiday calendar.

Region guide · Asia-Pacific

Forex market hours in Asia-Pacific

The trading day begins here. This page lays the four sessions and the main exchanges on a Singapore clock and a Sydney clock, and on yours.

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Today

The day on a dial.

One turn is one day on the clock you choose: Singapore, Sydney, or your own. The rings are the four FX windows, the thin arcs are the exchanges, and the hand is the present moment, read from your device.

Whose clock

Time on this clock--:--

The dial fills in once this page has read your device’s clock.

Computed from your device clock and each venue’s regular weekday timetable. Public holidays and early closes are not reflected. Midnight is at the top and the day runs clockwise. The dark rim marks hours when two FX windows are open together. The clocks offered are reference cities for Asia-Pacific, and your own.

The four FX windows, today, on this clock

Window	Hours here	Now
Sydney	--:--	…
Tokyo	--:--	…
London	--:--	…
New York	--:--	…

Open together--:--

The exchanges, today, on this clock

Exchange	Regular hours here	Midday break	Now
Sydney ASX	--:--	--:--	…
Tokyo TSE	--:--	--:--	…
Hong Kong HKEX	--:--	--:--	…
Singapore SGX	--:--	--:--	…
Mumbai NSE	--:--	--:--	…
Dubai DFM	--:--	--:--	…
Frankfurt Xetra	--:--	--:--	…
London LSE	--:--	--:--	…
New York NYSE	--:--	--:--	…

“+1” means the window ends after midnight, on the next day of this clock. Times use the 24-hour clock.

In local time

The four sessions and the main exchanges.

By convention the FX week opens with the Sydney window on Monday morning, and Tokyo follows. For a trader in this region those two windows fall in the working day, London opens in the local afternoon or evening, and New York runs late at night and into the early morning.

The region’s own exchanges (Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore) all trade in local daytime, and three of them stop for a midday break, which the tables show.

On a Singapore clock

the same clock as Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Perth.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	05:00–14:00	06:00–15:00
Tokyo session	08:00–17:00	08:00–17:00
London session	16:00–01:00 +1	15:00–00:00 +1
New York session	21:00–06:00 +1	20:00–05:00 +1
Sydney ASX	07:00–13:00	08:00–14:00
Tokyo TSE	08:00–14:30break 10:30–11:30	08:00–14:30break 10:30–11:30
Hong Kong HKEX	09:30–16:00break 12:00–13:00	09:30–16:00break 12:00–13:00
Singapore SGX	09:00–17:00break 12:00–13:00	09:00–17:00break 12:00–13:00
Mumbai NSE	11:45–18:00	11:45–18:00
Dubai DFM	14:00–19:00	14:00–19:00
Frankfurt Xetra	16:00–00:30 +1	15:00–23:30
London LSE	16:00–00:30 +1	15:00–23:30
New York NYSE	22:30–05:00 +1	21:30–04:00 +1

On a Sydney clock

the same clock as Melbourne and Canberra.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	08:00–17:00	08:00–17:00
Tokyo session	11:00–20:00	10:00–19:00
London session	19:00–04:00 +1	17:00–02:00 +1
New York session	00:00–09:00	22:00–07:00 +1
Sydney ASX	10:00–16:00	10:00–16:00
Tokyo TSE	11:00–17:30break 13:30–14:30	10:00–16:30break 12:30–13:30
Hong Kong HKEX	12:30–19:00break 15:00–16:00	11:30–18:00break 14:00–15:00
Singapore SGX	12:00–20:00break 15:00–16:00	11:00–19:00break 14:00–15:00
Mumbai NSE	14:45–21:00	13:45–20:00
Dubai DFM	17:00–22:00	16:00–21:00
Frankfurt Xetra	19:00–03:30 +1	17:00–01:30 +1
London LSE	19:00–03:30 +1	17:00–01:30 +1
New York NYSE	01:30–08:00	23:30–06:00 +1

ScheduleSource: the timetable this site’s clocks useWorked out for 15 January and 15 July 2027, with the time-zone rules known when the page was built. Regular weekday hours; public holidays and early closes are not shown. “+1” means the window ends on the next day of that clock.

The four sessions are conventions: each is roughly the business day of its own city. Foreign exchange has no opening bell. The exchanges are real venues with published hours, and the row for each shows its regular session only.

Two at once

The hours when two sessions overlap.

When two windows are open together, the dealers of two financial centres are at their desks at once. More participants usually means more trading, though not on every day and not in every instrument, and it says nothing about which way a price will move.

On a Singapore clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney × New York	05:00–06:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	08:00–14:00	08:00–15:00
Tokyo × London	16:00–17:00	15:00–17:00
London × New York	21:00–01:00 +1	20:00–00:00 +1

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Monday at 06:00 and closes on Saturday at 06:00 in mid-January, and opens on Monday at 05:00 and closes on Saturday at 05:00 in mid-July, on a Singapore clock.

On a Sydney clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
London × New York	00:00–04:00	22:00–02:00 +1
Sydney × New York	08:00–09:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	11:00–17:00	10:00–17:00
Tokyo × London	19:00–20:00	17:00–19:00

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Monday at 09:00 and closes on Saturday at 09:00 in mid-January, and opens on Monday at 07:00 and closes on Saturday at 07:00 in mid-July, on a Sydney clock.

Counted from the same windows as the tables above, for the same two days. Individual brokers set their own opening and closing times for the week.

Daylight-saving time

Why the hours shift twice a year.

Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and most of Asia do not change their clocks. On those clocks the Asian windows stay where they are all year, and it is London and New York that arrive an hour earlier in the northern summer and an hour later in the northern winter.

Sydney does change, and in the opposite direction: New South Wales moves its clocks forward on the first Sunday of October and back on the first Sunday of April. Because Britain and Sydney change in opposite directions, the gap between them changes by two hours across the year.

New Zealand, a little further east, also changes its clocks. Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia do not.

Each session window is kept in the local time of its own city. When that city moves its clocks forward for summer, its window starts an hour earlier in UTC, and so an hour earlier on every clock that did not move with it.

The dates differ. The United States and Canada change on the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November; Britain and the European Union on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October; Sydney, in the southern hemisphere, goes the other way, forward in October and back in April. Tokyo does not change at all.

So the timetable has two long settled stretches each year and a few short in-between weeks. The tables on this page show the two settled stretches. The dial shows today, whichever it is.

Governments change these rules from time to time. The dial reads the rules held by your own device; a national time service is the authority.

Holidays

The kinds of day markets close.

The Lunar New Year closes exchanges in Hong Kong, Singapore, mainland China and several other markets for one or more days. Its date moves each year, in January or February.
Japan’s exchanges close over the New Year, from 31 December to 3 January, and again for the run of public holidays in late April and early May known as Golden Week.
Australia’s exchange closes on national public holidays, among them 26 January.
Religious and national holidays in each country, many of which move with a lunar calendar, close that country’s exchange and leave the others open.

Foreign exchange has no single exchange and no single holiday calendar. On 25 December and 1 January almost every financial centre is shut and little or nothing trades. On other holidays one centre is away and the rest carry on, usually with fewer participants; brokers publish their own hours for those days.

Stock, futures and commodity exchanges are different: each one closes on its own country’s public holidays and publishes its calendar, with any shortened days, well ahead. That calendar is the only reliable list. The clocks and tables on this site show regular weekday hours and know nothing of holidays.

Not advice

Questions to ask about tax.

This site gives no tax or legal advice, and this page states no rule, rate or threshold for any country. How trading is taxed differs from country to country and from person to person. What follows is a list of questions to take to a qualified adviser or to your tax authority, which is where the answers are.

1Where I live, is a gain from trading treated as income, as a capital gain or as something else? Does the answer depend on how often I trade?
2Does the kind of product change the answer: a spot position, a contract for difference, a future, an option, a share?
3Can a loss be set against gains? Against other income? Carried forward to a later year?
4When is a gain or a loss counted: when a position is closed, at the end of the tax year, or when money is withdrawn?
5Which records must I keep, in what form and for how long?
6Will the statements my broker provides be enough, or is something more needed?
7How are costs treated: spreads, commission, overnight financing, data, software?
8In which currency do I report, and which exchange rate do I use to convert?
9Do I have to report an account held with a firm abroad, even in a year with no gain?
10When and how do I declare, and when is payment due?
11Does my situation change any of this: resident or not, employed or self-employed, trading in my own name or through a company?

The same list appears on every region guide, because the questions are the same everywhere. Only the answers differ.

Questions people ask

Forex hours in Asia-Pacific: three questions.

What time do the forex sessions open and close in Singapore time?: On a Singapore clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 05:00 to 14:00; Tokyo 08:00 to 17:00; London 16:00 to 01:00 the next day; New York 21:00 to 06:00 the next day. In mid-July: Sydney 06:00 to 15:00; Tokyo 08:00 to 17:00; London 15:00 to 00:00 the next day; New York 20:00 to 05:00 the next day. The windows are a convention, each the business day of its own city, and not an official timetable. Public holidays are not taken into account.
When do the London and New York sessions overlap in Singapore time?: On a Singapore clock the London and New York windows are both open from 21:00 to 01:00 the next day in mid-January and from 20:00 to 00:00 the next day in mid-July. For a few weeks around the clock changes in March and in late October the hours differ by one hour, because Britain and the United States do not change on the same day.
Is the “Asian session” one market?: No. It is a name for the hours when the financial centres of Asia and Australasia are at work. Foreign exchange has no single exchange: banks and dealers quote prices to each other, and the Sydney and Tokyo windows are conventions for when those centres are busiest. Each stock exchange in the region is a separate venue with its own hours and its own holiday calendar.

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An explanation of a timetable. It is not advice, and the hour of the day says nothing certain about what a price will do.

Trading foreign exchange on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. Before deciding to trade foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.

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