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

On a Dubai clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 01:00 to 10:00; Tokyo 04:00 to 13:00; London 12:00 to 21:00; New York 17:00 to 02:00 the next day. In mid-July: Sydney 02:00 to 11:00; Tokyo 04:00 to 13:00; London 11:00 to 20:00; New York 16:00 to 01:00 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 Dubai time?

On a Dubai clock the London and New York windows are both open from 17:00 to 21:00 in mid-January and from 16:00 to 20:00 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 forex market open on Friday and Sunday in the Gulf?

The international foreign-exchange market follows the Monday-to-Friday week of the large financial centres, whatever the local working week. On this site’s timetable the week begins as Monday morning starts in Sydney, which is the small hours of Monday on a Gulf clock, and ends when New York closes on Friday, which is the small hours of Saturday there. Local stock exchanges keep the local week instead.

Region guide · Middle East

Forex market hours in the Middle East

London opens around the middle of the day here and New York in the late afternoon. This page lays the sessions on a Dubai clock and a Riyadh clock, and on yours.

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Today

The day on a dial.

One turn is one day on the clock you choose: Dubai, Riyadh, 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 Middle East, 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.

The Gulf sits a few hours ahead of London. The Tokyo window is open through the local morning, London opens around midday, and New York opens in the late afternoon and closes after midnight.

The working week is not the same everywhere in the region. The United Arab Emirates moved to a Monday-to-Friday week at the start of 2022, while some neighbouring countries keep a Sunday-to-Thursday week. A local exchange can therefore be open on a Sunday, when the foreign-exchange market is not, and closed on a Friday, when it is.

On a Dubai clock

Gulf Standard Time, also kept by Oman.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	01:00–10:00	02:00–11:00
Tokyo session	04:00–13:00	04:00–13:00
London session	12:00–21:00	11:00–20:00
New York session	17:00–02:00 +1	16:00–01:00 +1
Sydney ASX	03:00–09:00	04:00–10:00
Tokyo TSE	04:00–10:30break 06:30–07:30	04:00–10:30break 06:30–07:30
Hong Kong HKEX	05:30–12:00break 08:00–09:00	05:30–12:00break 08:00–09:00
Singapore SGX	05:00–13:00break 08:00–09:00	05:00–13:00break 08:00–09:00
Mumbai NSE	07:45–14:00	07:45–14:00
Dubai DFM	10:00–15:00	10:00–15:00
Frankfurt Xetra	12:00–20:30	11:00–19:30
London LSE	12:00–20:30	11:00–19:30
New York NYSE	18:30–01:00 +1	17:30–00:00 +1

On a Riyadh clock

the same clock as Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	00:00–09:00	01:00–10:00
Tokyo session	03:00–12:00	03:00–12:00
London session	11:00–20:00	10:00–19:00
New York session	16:00–01:00 +1	15:00–00:00 +1
Sydney ASX	02:00–08:00	03:00–09:00
Tokyo TSE	03:00–09:30break 05:30–06:30	03:00–09:30break 05:30–06:30
Hong Kong HKEX	04:30–11:00break 07:00–08:00	04:30–11:00break 07:00–08:00
Singapore SGX	04:00–12:00break 07:00–08:00	04:00–12:00break 07:00–08:00
Mumbai NSE	06:45–13:00	06:45–13:00
Dubai DFM	09:00–14:00	09:00–14:00
Frankfurt Xetra	11:00–19:30	10:00–18:30
London LSE	11:00–19:30	10:00–18:30
New York NYSE	17:30–00:00 +1	16:30–23:00

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 Dubai clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney × New York	01:00–02:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	04:00–10:00	04:00–11:00
Tokyo × London	12:00–13:00	11:00–13:00
London × New York	17:00–21:00	16:00–20:00

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Monday at 02:00 and closes on Saturday at 02:00 in mid-January, and opens on Monday at 01:00 and closes on Saturday at 01:00 in mid-July, on a Dubai clock.

On a Riyadh clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney × New York	00:00–01:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	03:00–09:00	03:00–10:00
Tokyo × London	11:00–12:00	10:00–12:00
London × New York	16:00–20:00	15:00–19:00

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Monday at 01:00 and closes on Saturday at 01:00 in mid-January, and opens on Monday at 00:00 and closes on Saturday at 00:00 in mid-July, on a Riyadh 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.

The Gulf states do not change their clocks. A few countries elsewhere in the region do, and the rules there have changed more than once in recent years, so a local source is the thing to check.

On a Gulf clock it is London and New York that move: an hour earlier while Britain and the United States are on summer time, an hour later for the rest of the year. Because those two change on different weekends, the gap between them is an hour shorter for a few weeks in spring and about a week in autumn.

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 main closing days follow the Islamic calendar and move about eleven days earlier each year: Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, the Islamic New Year and others. Their exact dates are confirmed close to the time.
Each country has its own national day or days, on which its exchange closes.
Hours are often shortened during Ramadan. Exchanges announce them each year.

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 Middle East: three questions.

What time do the forex sessions open and close in Dubai time?: On a Dubai clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 01:00 to 10:00; Tokyo 04:00 to 13:00; London 12:00 to 21:00; New York 17:00 to 02:00 the next day. In mid-July: Sydney 02:00 to 11:00; Tokyo 04:00 to 13:00; London 11:00 to 20:00; New York 16:00 to 01:00 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 Dubai time?: On a Dubai clock the London and New York windows are both open from 17:00 to 21:00 in mid-January and from 16:00 to 20:00 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 forex market open on Friday and Sunday in the Gulf?: The international foreign-exchange market follows the Monday-to-Friday week of the large financial centres, whatever the local working week. On this site’s timetable the week begins as Monday morning starts in Sydney, which is the small hours of Monday on a Gulf clock, and ends when New York closes on Friday, which is the small hours of Saturday there. Local stock exchanges keep the local week instead.

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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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