Forex Market Hours Clock

Read sessions in your own timezone

Choose an IANA display timezone, such as Europe/London or Asia/Dhaka, and a 12-hour or 24-hour clock. Each session has its own local timezone and editable opening and closing time. Apply the settings to refresh the schedules. The default illustration uses 08:00–17:00 local time for Sydney, London and New York, and 09:00–18:00 local time for Tokyo.

Daylight saving is local

The clock uses the browser’s timezone database to convert local session boundaries into actual instants. Sydney, London and New York can change clocks on different dates, while Tokyo does not follow the same seasonal pattern. Consequently a session’s time in your display timezone and the length of an overlap may change during the year. Update your browser to keep its timezone rules current.

How the schedule is built

Session starts are generated for Monday through Friday in each session’s local calendar. A closing time earlier than the opening time represents an overnight session ending the next local day. Equal opening and closing times are rejected. Status compares the current instant with these intervals; countdowns identify the next opening or closing boundary. Overlaps are intersections of the generated intervals, not fixed labels.

Worked example

With a London opening time of 08:00, the corresponding UTC opening is 08:00 when London uses GMT and 07:00 when London uses British Summer Time. The local London opening stays at 08:00. A viewer in another timezone sees the converted time for that date. This is why manually subtracting one fixed offset for every month can be misleading.

Timeline and limits

The timeline covers the next 24 elapsed hours. Use the status cards and overlap listing for the current view, then compare different display zones without changing each session’s local schedule. This is a generic weekday planning clock. It does not model exchange holidays, broker maintenance, special opening hours, instrument-specific trading breaks or temporary closures. The session labels are not evidence that a particular broker is accepting orders.

FAQ: Is an open session a trading signal?

No. A scheduled session does not guarantee liquidity, a spread level or a profitable setup. The tool does not fetch prices, economic releases or live market status. It depends on your device clock and browser timezone data. Ambiguous or nonexistent daylight-saving boundary times are rejected rather than assigned a guessed instant. Settings are for this page visit; no account or location permission is required.