acalculator

Forex market hours in my time zone

Pick your time zone to see when each forex trading session opens and closes on your clock, with the London and New York overlap. Daylight saving in every city is built in.

Your numbers

London and New York overlap
Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM

On Monday, October 19, 2026, in New York (US Eastern) time, the London and New York sessions overlap Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Overlap length
4 hours
Sydney session
Sun, Oct 18, 4:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 1:00 AM
Tokyo session
Sun, Oct 18, 8:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 5:00 AM
London session
Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM
New York session
Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Trading day
Monday, October 19, 2026
Week opens
Sun, Oct 18, 5:00 PM
Week closes
Fri, Oct 23, 5:00 PM

Answer for the example date Monday, October 19, 2026. It changes to today's date when the page loads.

London and New York overlap: Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM. On Monday, October 19, 2026, in New York (US Eastern) time, the London and New York sessions overlap Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

How to calculate

Shows the Sydney, Tokyo, London, and New York forex sessions of a trading day in your time zone, with the London and New York overlap and the week’s opening and closing times.

Example with the default inputs (Your time zone New York (US Eastern), Trading day October 19, 2026) on the example date Monday, October 19, 2026: On Monday, October 19, 2026, in New York (US Eastern) time, the London and New York sessions overlap Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.

Method: For the trading day, find the moment (UTC) each session opens and closes in its own city’s local time, and the week’s open and close at 5:00 PM New York time, then show each moment on your time zone’s clock, from the browser’s IANA time zone data.

  • Sessions, each in its own city’s local time on the trading day: Sydney 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Australia/Sydney), Tokyo 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Asia/Tokyo), London 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Europe/London: GMT in winter, BST in summer), New York 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (America/New_York). These are the local business hours commonly published for the forex sessions (Fortrade); the forex market has no exchange with an official opening bell.
  • The week opens on the Sunday before the trading day and closes on the Friday after it (the trading day itself when it is a Friday), both at 5:00 PM New York time. A Sydney session that starts before 5:00 PM New York time on a Sunday is shown as it is; brokers start the week at their own times.
  • The trading day is the date you pick when it is a Monday to Friday; a Saturday or Sunday shows the Monday after.
  • Each time is shown on your time zone’s clock as “Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM”; a session shows “to 5:00 PM” when it ends on the same date in your time zone, and the end date too when it does not. The London and New York overlap runs from the later opening to the earlier closing, and its length is in hours and minutes (“4 hours”).
  • Offsets and daylight saving come from the browser’s IANA time zone data (tzdata 2026a when this page was checked), so a rule change arrives with a browser update. Dates from 2000 to 2040 work.

Machine-readable copies: Markdown, JSON.

Worked examples

Each example is checked against the calculator on every build.

  1. Your time zone New York (US Eastern), Trading day 2026-10-19 gives London and New York overlap Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Overlap length 4 hours, Sydney session Sun, Oct 18, 4:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 1:00 AM, Tokyo session Sun, Oct 18, 8:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 5:00 AM, London session Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM, New York session Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Trading day 2026-10-19, Week opens Sun, Oct 18, 5:00 PM, Week closes Fri, Oct 23, 5:00 PM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  2. Your time zone London, UK, Trading day 2026-10-28 gives London and New York overlap Wed, Oct 28, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Overlap length 5 hours, Sydney session Tue, Oct 27, 8:00 PM to Wed, Oct 28, 5:00 AM, Tokyo session Wed, Oct 28, 12:00 AM to 9:00 AM, London session Wed, Oct 28, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, New York session Wed, Oct 28, 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Trading day 2026-10-28, Week opens Sun, Oct 25, 9:00 PM, Week closes Fri, Oct 30, 9:00 PM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  3. Your time zone UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), Trading day 2026-10-24 gives London and New York overlap Mon, Oct 26, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, Overlap length 5 hours, Sydney session Sun, Oct 25, 8:00 PM to Mon, Oct 26, 5:00 AM, Tokyo session Mon, Oct 26, 12:00 AM to 9:00 AM, London session Mon, Oct 26, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, New York session Mon, Oct 26, 12:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Trading day 2026-10-26, Week opens Sun, Oct 25, 9:00 PM, Week closes Fri, Oct 30, 9:00 PM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  4. Your time zone India (New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata), Trading day 2027-01-15 gives London and New York overlap Fri, Jan 15, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM, Overlap length 4 hours, Sydney session Fri, Jan 15, 1:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Tokyo session Fri, Jan 15, 5:30 AM to 2:30 PM, London session Fri, Jan 15, 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, New York session Fri, Jan 15, 6:30 PM to Sat, Jan 16, 3:30 AM, Trading day 2027-01-15, Week opens Mon, Jan 11, 3:30 AM, Week closes Sat, Jan 16, 3:30 AM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  5. Your time zone Sydney, Australia, Trading day 2027-07-15 gives London and New York overlap Thu, Jul 15, 10:00 PM to Fri, Jul 16, 2:00 AM, Overlap length 4 hours, Sydney session Thu, Jul 15, 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Tokyo session Thu, Jul 15, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, London session Thu, Jul 15, 5:00 PM to Fri, Jul 16, 2:00 AM, New York session Thu, Jul 15, 10:00 PM to Fri, Jul 16, 7:00 AM, Trading day 2027-07-15, Week opens Mon, Jul 12, 7:00 AM, Week closes Sat, Jul 17, 7:00 AM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  6. Your time zone Los Angeles (US Pacific), Trading day 2027-03-16 gives London and New York overlap Tue, Mar 16, 5:00 AM to 10:00 AM, Overlap length 5 hours, Sydney session Mon, Mar 15, 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM, Tokyo session Mon, Mar 15, 5:00 PM to Tue, Mar 16, 2:00 AM, London session Tue, Mar 16, 1:00 AM to 10:00 AM, New York session Tue, Mar 16, 5:00 AM to 2:00 PM, Trading day 2027-03-16, Week opens Sun, Mar 14, 2:00 PM, Week closes Fri, Mar 19, 2:00 PM.Source: Fortrade, Around the clock: navigating the global forex trading sessions (May 19, 2024), the local session hours (https://www.fortrade.com/a/blog/around-the-clock-navigating-the-global-forex-trading-sessions/); Dukascopy Bank, Forex Market Hours, the week from 5 PM Sunday to 5 PM Friday New York time (https://www.dukascopy.com/swiss/english/fx-market-tools/forex-market-hours/); IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)

How it works

The page takes a time zone (yours, from the list) and a trading day (today unless you change it; a Saturday or Sunday becomes the Monday after). Dates from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2040 work.

Each session is a span of local business hours in its own city, on the trading day’s date in that city:

SessionOpens (local)Closes (local)IANA zone
Sydney7:00 AM4:00 PMAustralia/Sydney
Tokyo9:00 AM6:00 PMAsia/Tokyo
London8:00 AM5:00 PMEurope/London
New York8:00 AM5:00 PMAmerica/New_York
  1. For each session, find the instant (UTC) at which its city’s clocks show the opening time on the trading day, and the instant they show the closing time. These times never fall in a clock change in these cities, so each has exactly one instant.
  2. Show each instant on the clock of your time zone, from its UTC offset at that instant.
  3. London and New York overlap: from the later of the two openings to the earlier of the two closings; overlap length is the time between them, in whole hours and minutes (“4 hours”, “5 hours”, “4 hours 30 minutes”; a count of 1 is singular, and 0 minutes are left out after the hours).
  4. Week opens is 5:00 PM New York time on the Sunday before the trading day, and week closes is 5:00 PM New York time on the Friday after it (the trading day itself when it is a Friday), each shown in your time zone.

Each time is written like “Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM”: the short weekday, the short month, the day of the month, and the time on a 12-hour clock. A span is written “Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM” when it starts and ends on the same date in your time zone, and “Sun, Oct 18, 4:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 1:00 AM” when it does not. The trading day is written like “Monday, October 19, 2026”.

The weekly open is a separate time from the Sydney session: when Sydney is on daylight saving time, its 7:00 AM Monday opening comes before 5:00 PM Sunday in New York, and the page shows both as they are.

Offsets and daylight saving rules come from your browser’s IANA time zone data (the examples were checked against tzdata 2026a), so a country’s rule change reaches the page with a browser update.

Worked examples by hand

New York, Monday, October 19, 2026. New York is on EDT (UTC−04:00), London on BST (UTC+01:00), Sydney on AEDT (UTC+11:00) since October 4, and Tokyo on JST (UTC+09:00).

  • Sydney 7:00 AM Monday is 20:00 UTC Sunday, 4:00 PM Sunday in New York; 4:00 PM Sydney is 1:00 AM Monday: Sun, Oct 18, 4:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 1:00 AM.
  • Tokyo 9:00 AM Monday is 00:00 UTC, 8:00 PM Sunday in New York; 6:00 PM Tokyo is 5:00 AM: Sun, Oct 18, 8:00 PM to Mon, Oct 19, 5:00 AM.
  • London 8:00 AM is 07:00 UTC, 3:00 AM in New York; 5:00 PM London is 12:00 PM: Mon, Oct 19, 3:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
  • New York: Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
  • Overlap: from New York’s 8:00 AM to London’s close at 12:00 PM: Mon, Oct 19, 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 4 hours.
  • The week opens Sun, Oct 18, 5:00 PM and closes Fri, Oct 23, 5:00 PM.

London, Wednesday, October 28, 2026. The UK went back to GMT (UTC+00:00) on October 25, but New York stays on EDT until November 1, so London is only 4 hours ahead. New York’s 8:00 AM is 12:00 PM in London, and London closes at 5:00 PM: overlap Wed, Oct 28, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 5 hours. The week opened Sunday at 5:00 PM EDT, 21:00 UTC: Sun, Oct 25, 9:00 PM.

India (UTC+05:30), Friday, January 15, 2027. New York is on EST (UTC−05:00), 10 hours 30 minutes behind India. New York’s session, 13:00 to 22:00 UTC, is Fri, Jan 15, 6:30 PM to Sat, Jan 16, 3:30 AM in India. London, 8:00 to 17:00 UTC (GMT), is 1:30 PM to 10:30 PM, so the overlap is Fri, Jan 15, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM, 4 hours. The week closes Friday at 5:00 PM EST, 22:00 UTC: Sat, Jan 16, 3:30 AM.

UTC, Saturday, October 24, 2026. A Saturday shows the Monday after, October 26. London is on GMT and New York on EDT: overlap Mon, Oct 26, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM, 5 hours.

Other questions people ask

What are the forex market hours?

The forex market trades around the clock on weekdays: from 5:00 PM New York time on Sunday to 5:00 PM New York time on Friday. Within that week, trading is usually described in four sessions named for the cities where it is busiest, each during local business hours: Sydney 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Tokyo 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, London 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM and New York 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

When do the London and New York sessions overlap?

From 8:00 AM New York time, when New York opens, to 5:00 PM London time, when London closes. For most of the year London is 5 hours ahead, so the overlap is 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM in New York, 4 hours. Since 2007, only one of the two countries has changed its clocks between the second and the last Sundays in March. The same is true between the last Sunday in October and the first Sunday in November. In those weeks London is 4 hours ahead, and the overlap is 5 hours, to 1:00 PM. From 2000 to 2006, the US changed its clocks on the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October. So in the week from the last Sunday in March, London was 6 hours ahead, and the overlap was 3 hours, to 11:00 AM.

What time does the forex market open on Sunday?

5:00 PM New York time, shown on this page as “Week opens” in your time zone. That is 10:00 PM in London for most of the year, and 9:00 PM in the weeks when London is only 4 hours ahead of New York. In the 2000 to 2006 weeks when London was 6 hours ahead, it was 11:00 PM. In Sydney it is 7:00, 8:00 or 9:00 AM on Monday, depending on daylight saving in both cities.

Is the forex market open on weekends?

No. It closes at 5:00 PM New York time on Friday and opens again at 5:00 PM New York time on Sunday. That is 48 hours later, or 47 or 49 hours when New York changes its clocks that weekend. Pick a Saturday or Sunday and the page shows the sessions of the Monday after.

Why do the session times move during the year?

Daylight saving. Since 2007, New York moves its clocks on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November; from 2000 to 2006 it used the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October. London moves its clocks on the last Sundays in March and October. Since 2008, Sydney moves its clocks on the first Sundays in October and April. Before that it used the last Sundays in October and March, with two exceptions: it moved its clocks ahead on August 27, 2000 and back on April 2, 2006. Tokyo has no daylight saving. The page reads each city’s rules from your browser’s time zone data, so the times are right for the date you pick.

What time is the Tokyo session in New York?

9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Tokyo time is 7:00 PM to 4:00 AM New York time while New York is on standard time, and 8:00 PM to 5:00 AM while it is on daylight saving time, both starting the evening before.

Are these official trading hours?

No. Currencies trade between banks and brokers around the world, with no central exchange and no opening bell. The sessions are the local business hours commonly published for each city, and your broker’s platform sets its own hours and holiday closures.