Converters & time math
Market trading hours
See which exchanges are trading right now and when the rest open — in your own time zone. From the NYSE to the JPX, the world's markets on one live board.
| Exchange | Local time | Hours in your zone | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
NYSE New York | — | — | Closed |
Nasdaq New York | — | — | Closed |
TSX Toronto | — | — | Closed |
B3 São Paulo | — | — | Closed |
LSE London | — | — | Closed |
Euronext Paris | — | — | Closed |
Xetra Frankfurt | — | — | Closed |
JSE Johannesburg | — | — | Closed |
DFM Dubai | — | — | Closed |
NSE Mumbai | — | — | Closed |
SGX Singapore | — | — | Closed |
HKEX Hong Kong | — | — | Closed |
SSE Shanghai | — | — | Closed |
JPX Tokyo | — | — | Closed |
ASX Sydney | — | — | Closed |
Regular cash-session hours, Monday to Friday. Public holidays, half-days, and lunch breaks aren't modelled.
How to use the market trading hours
See which sessions are open
Each exchange is shown with its trading session mapped onto your own local clock, and marked open or closed right now.
Find the overlaps
The periods where two major centres are open at once — London with New York especially — carry the highest volume and the tightest spreads of the day.
Convert a session to your clock
Read each exchange's open and close in your local time so you know when to be at the desk without doing the arithmetic.
Mind the holidays and half-days
Sessions shown are the regular schedule. Exchanges close for their own national holidays and shorten sessions around some of them.
How the trading day travels around the world
Global markets run as a relay. Sydney opens, then Tokyo, then Hong Kong and Singapore; Europe takes over as Asia closes; London hands to New York, which closes a few hours before Sydney starts again. There is only a short window each day when no major equity market is open, which is why currency and futures markets effectively trade around the clock.
The overlaps are where the liquidity is. The London–New York overlap in the early afternoon UK time is the busiest few hours in foreign exchange, with the deepest books and the narrowest spreads. The Tokyo–London overlap is thinner but still meaningful. Trading outside an overlap generally means wider spreads and more slippage.
Daylight saving disrupts the pattern twice a year, and unevenly. The United States and Europe change on different weekends, so for a few weeks the London–New York overlap shifts by an hour. Tokyo does not change at all, so its relationship to both moves. Anyone with a fixed daily routine built around a session open has to adjust in those weeks.
Exchange hours are also local and specific: some run continuously, some break for lunch, and several Asian exchanges have distinct morning and afternoon sessions. Converting them into your own clock, rather than remembering them as offsets, avoids a surprisingly common category of mistake.
When you'd reach for it
Trading from another continent
Know exactly when your target market opens in your own local time.
Timing an order
Place size during an overlap where liquidity is deepest rather than in a thin session.
Watching an earnings release
Work out when a company's announcement lands relative to its home session.
Scheduling around the open
Keep meetings away from the hours you need to be watching a session.
Learning market structure
See how the global trading day is stitched together from regional sessions.
Operations and settlement
Plan processing windows around when each market is actually running.
Questions & answers
- How is 'open' determined?
- Each exchange's regular cash-session hours are checked against its own local time and weekday. If it's a weekday and the local clock is within session, it shows as open.
- Are holidays included?
- No. Public holidays, half-days, and intraday lunch breaks (as on some Asian exchanges) aren't modelled, so treat the status as a quick guide rather than a trading signal.
- What time zone are the hours shown in?
- The 'hours in your zone' column converts each exchange's session into your device's local time, so you can see when it opens for you.