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Forex Market Hours
Live Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York sessions, with DST-aware open times in your timezone.
- 24/5 hours
- 4 major sessions
- Peak: London–NY overlap
Forex market open
Local time in the four centres
Tokyo
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USD/JPY · EUR/JPY
London
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EUR/USD · GBP/USD
New York
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USD/CAD · USD/JPY
Session overlaps
Highest volume
London & New York
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Asia-Pacific
Sydney & Tokyo
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Handover
Tokyo & London
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24-hour session map
Forex market time converter
Open and close times in your selected timezone, with live status. Wall-clock hours follow each centre’s local session and adjust for DST.
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When is the forex market open?
Forex is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week — from Sunday Sydney open to Friday New York close. Trading rotates through Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. Liquidity is highest during the London–New York overlap, not equally across every hour.
Detailed explanation
Sessions are conventions used by traders, not a single listed-exchange schedule. Sydney (about 09:00–18:00 local) opens the week for Asia-Pacific. Tokyo (09:00–18:00 JST, no DST) is the main Asian JPY window. London (08:00–17:00 UK time) is the world’s largest FX trading centre in BIS sales-desk data. New York (08:00–17:00 US Eastern) adds USD liquidity and usually ends the week. Because the centres overlap, weekdays can be quoted almost around the clock — with very uneven depth.
Example
EUR/USD at 10:00 London is usually a deep book. The same pair near 21:30 UTC, after New York winds down and before Sydney is fully in, often shows wider spreads even though a quote still exists.
Common mistake
Treating “24 hours” as “always the same cost to trade.” Open does not mean equally liquid.
Professional tip
Time entries with session and news, then size with a lot calculator — do not increase size just because a session is open.
Session glossary
- Trading sessions
- A conventional window when a major financial centre’s dealers are most active. Forex is OTC, so these are market conventions, not a single exchange bell.
- Session overlaps
- Hours when two sessions are open at once. More participants usually means deeper books — and faster news reactions.
- DST
- Seasonal clock changes that shift a city’s UTC offset. They change when an overlap occurs in UTC, not whether forex is open.
Forex and CFDs are leveraged products. Most retail accounts lose money. Session status does not predict profit. Educational content only — not investment advice.
Forex market hours — frequently asked questions
The forex market is open 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. It typically opens Sunday when the Sydney session begins (about 09:00 Australia/Sydney) and closes Friday when the New York session ends (17:00 America/New_York). Weekdays rotate through Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. Exact UTC clock times shift with daylight saving.
London is the world’s largest FX trading centre in BIS sales-desk data. For most major pairs, the London–New York overlap is still the deepest combined window, with typically tighter spreads on EUR/USD and GBP/USD — and a higher chance of US-data spikes.
Yes. The US, UK and EU change clocks on different dates, so the London–New York overlap can shift by about one hour for a few weeks. Japan has no DST; Australia’s DST runs in the opposite season. This clock uses IANA timezones so local open/close times stay correct.
Use the live status at the top of this page. It updates every second from your selected timezone and the four session clocks. If it shows weekend closed, major pairs are not in the normal 24/5 quoting window — some brokers still show prices but spreads are usually much wider.
No. Spot forex typically closes Friday at the New York session end and reopens Sunday at the Sydney session start. Crypto CFDs at some brokers are a different product and do not mean EUR/USD is tradable through Saturday.
Select your timezone in the clock bar, or leave it on auto-detect. Open and close times, the 24-hour map and the converter table all update together, including DST. You do not need a separate GMT conversion chart.