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Forex market hours by country

The same global sessions fall at very different local hours. Pick your country for its own session table, live clock, killzones and the next US and UK holidays.

PKT PakistanOverlap 18:00–22:00 in January, UTC+5 IST IndiaOverlap 18:30–22:30 in January, UTC+5:30 WAT NigeriaOverlap 14:00–18:00 in January, UTC+1 SAST South AfricaOverlap 15:00–19:00 in January, UTC+2 GST UAEOverlap 17:00–21:00 in January, UTC+4 WIB IndonesiaOverlap 20:00–00:00 in January, UTC+7 MYT MalaysiaOverlap 21:00–01:00 (+1 day) in January, UTC+8
Session (UTC)JanuaryJuly
Sydney20:00–05:00 (+1 day)21:00–06:00 (+1 day)
Tokyo00:00–09:0000:00–09:00
London08:00–17:0007:00–16:00
New York13:00–22:0012:00–21:00

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One market, many clocks

Forex trades around the clock from Monday morning in Sydney to Friday evening in New York, passing through four big centres. Each has its own working day and its own daylight-saving rules, so the table above is in UTC for January and July, and each country page converts it to local time. Pakistan, India, Nigeria, South Africa, the UAE, Indonesia and Malaysia do not change their clocks, so their pages change only when the US, UK or Australia do.

For the live view in any zone, open the sessions and killzones clock; for release times, the economic calendar.

Questions

Is the forex market open 24 hours?

Yes, from Sunday 17:00 to Friday 17:00 New York time, passing from Sydney and Tokyo to London and New York.

Which session moves the most?

London, and above all the hours when London and New York are open together.

Why do the times change in March and November?

The US, UK and Australia change their clocks on different dates; countries without daylight saving see the sessions move by an hour.

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