Market hours

What this shows, and what it does not

The status uses each exchange's regular trading hours in its own time zone, converted exactly by the same engine as the rest of clocknow, so daylight saving changes in New York, London, Frankfurt and Sydney are followed. Hong Kong and Tokyo do not use daylight saving, and both close for a lunch break.

Exchange holidays and early closes are not included. A market can be closed on a weekday for a holiday that is not a public holiday elsewhere (Good Friday, Thanksgiving, a Tokyo year-end closure) and many close early before holidays. Always check the exchange's own calendar before you rely on a time; the names above link to it where we have an official page. Closing auctions run a few minutes after the close shown, and some venues trade extended hours that are not listed.

The forex market trades around the clock on weekdays. The four sessions here are the usual business hours of each centre (08:00–17:00 in Sydney, London and New York, and 09:00–18:00 in Tokyo, local time), not rules of the market, and they overlap in the ways traders watch.