What time do the forex sessions open and close in New York time?

On a New York clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 16:00 to 01:00 the next day; Tokyo 19:00 to 04:00 the next day; London 03:00 to 12:00; New York 08:00 to 17:00. In mid-July: Sydney 18:00 to 03:00 the next day; Tokyo 20:00 to 05:00 the next day; London 03:00 to 12:00; New York 08:00 to 17:00. 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 New York time?

On a New York clock the London and New York windows are both open from 08:00 to 12:00 in mid-January and from 08:00 to 12:00 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.

When does the forex week open and close in the United States?

By the convention used on this site, the week ends when the New York window closes on Friday afternoon and begins again late on Sunday afternoon, at the same hour on a New York clock, as Monday morning starts in Sydney. The hours on other clocks are in the tables on this page. Individual brokers set their own opening and closing times around this convention.

Region guide · North America

Forex market hours in North America

The trading day ends here, and the next one begins the same evening. This page lays the sessions on a New York clock and a Los Angeles clock, and on yours.

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Today

The day on a dial.

One turn is one day on the clock you choose: New York, Los Angeles, 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 North America, 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.

On an Eastern clock London has been open for hours by the time the day starts, and the morning is when the London and New York windows are both open. New York closes in the late afternoon; by this site’s timetable that close on a Friday is the end of the FX week.

The same evening, Sydney opens the next trading day and Tokyo follows. On the Pacific coast everything is three hours earlier on the clock: London is closing by mid-morning.

On a New York clock

Eastern Time: Toronto, Miami, Atlanta.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	16:00–01:00 +1	18:00–03:00 +1
Tokyo session	19:00–04:00 +1	20:00–05:00 +1
London session	03:00–12:00	03:00–12:00
New York session	08:00–17:00	08:00–17:00
Sydney ASX	18:00–00:00 +1	20:00–02:00 +1
Tokyo TSE	19:00–01:30 +1break 21:30–22:30	20:00–02:30 +1break 22:30–23:30
Hong Kong HKEX	20:30–03:00 +1break 23:00–00:00 +1	21:30–04:00 +1break 00:00–01:00
Singapore SGX	20:00–04:00 +1break 23:00–00:00 +1	21:00–05:00 +1break 00:00–01:00
Mumbai NSE	22:45–05:00 +1	23:45–06:00 +1
Dubai DFM	01:00–06:00	02:00–07:00
Frankfurt Xetra	03:00–11:30	03:00–11:30
London LSE	03:00–11:30	03:00–11:30
New York NYSE	09:30–16:00	09:30–16:00

On a Los Angeles clock

Pacific Time: Vancouver, San Francisco, Seattle.

Open	Mid-January	Mid-July
Sydney session	13:00–22:00	15:00–00:00 +1
Tokyo session	16:00–01:00 +1	17:00–02:00 +1
London session	00:00–09:00	00:00–09:00
New York session	05:00–14:00	05:00–14:00
Sydney ASX	15:00–21:00	17:00–23:00
Tokyo TSE	16:00–22:30break 18:30–19:30	17:00–23:30break 19:30–20:30
Hong Kong HKEX	17:30–00:00 +1break 20:00–21:00	18:30–01:00 +1break 21:00–22:00
Singapore SGX	17:00–01:00 +1break 20:00–21:00	18:00–02:00 +1break 21:00–22:00
Mumbai NSE	19:45–02:00 +1	20:45–03:00 +1
Dubai DFM	22:00–03:00 +1	23:00–04:00 +1
Frankfurt Xetra	00:00–08:30	00:00–08:30
London LSE	00:00–08:30	00:00–08:30
New York NYSE	06:30–13:00	06:30–13:00

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 New York clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
Tokyo × London	03:00–04:00	03:00–05:00
London × New York	08:00–12:00	08:00–12:00
Sydney × New York	16:00–17:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	19:00–01:00 +1	20:00–03:00 +1

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Sunday at 17:00 and closes on Friday at 17:00 on a New York clock all year.

On a Los Angeles clock

Open together	Mid-January	Mid-July
Tokyo × London	00:00–01:00	00:00–02:00
London × New York	05:00–09:00	05:00–09:00
Sydney × New York	13:00–14:00	none
Sydney × Tokyo	16:00–22:00	17:00–00:00 +1

The FX week, as this site counts it, opens on Sunday at 14:00 and closes on Friday at 14:00 on a Los Angeles clock all year.

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.

Most of the United States and Canada move their clocks forward on the second Sunday of March and back on the first Sunday of November. Arizona (for the most part) and Hawaii do not change.

Britain and the European Union change on the last Sunday of March and the last Sunday of October. In the weeks between the two changes London is four hours ahead of New York, not five, and its window opens and closes an hour later on a North American clock.

Tokyo does not change, so its window moves by an hour on a North American clock when North America changes. Sydney changes in the opposite direction, so its window moves by two hours across the year.

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 fixed-date holidays of the New York exchange are 1 January, 19 June (Juneteenth), 4 July (Independence Day) and 25 December. When one falls on a weekend, the exchange names the weekday that stands in for it.
Others fall on a named weekday and so move in date: Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving, with Good Friday as well.
The session is shortened on some days around Independence Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Canada’s exchanges keep Canada’s holidays, some of which differ, among them 1 July (Canada Day).

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 North America: three questions.

What time do the forex sessions open and close in New York time?: On a New York clock, by the conventional windows this site uses: In mid-January: Sydney 16:00 to 01:00 the next day; Tokyo 19:00 to 04:00 the next day; London 03:00 to 12:00; New York 08:00 to 17:00. In mid-July: Sydney 18:00 to 03:00 the next day; Tokyo 20:00 to 05:00 the next day; London 03:00 to 12:00; New York 08:00 to 17:00. 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 New York time?: On a New York clock the London and New York windows are both open from 08:00 to 12:00 in mid-January and from 08:00 to 12:00 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.
When does the forex week open and close in the United States?: By the convention used on this site, the week ends when the New York window closes on Friday afternoon and begins again late on Sunday afternoon, at the same hour on a New York clock, as Monday morning starts in Sydney. The hours on other clocks are in the tables on this page. Individual brokers set their own opening and closing times around this convention.

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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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